Autobiography of a Female Slave by Mattie Griffith with an afterword by Joe Lockard Mattie Griffith, passing as a black, wanted her book to horrify and ...

Valuable scholarship from a leading textual critic As one of the preeminent scholars of southern literature, Noel Polk has delivered lectures, written ...

Contributions by Kelly Blewett, Claudia Camicia, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Elisabeth Graves, Karlie Herndon, KaaVonia Hinton, Holly Blackford ...

The poetry of John Berryman (1914-1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political, sexual, racial, and technological ...

Mississippi Harvest: Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840-1915 by Nollie W. Hickman The story of the mills, the men, and the methods that laid claim ...

Taiwanese born, Ang Lee (b. 1954) has produced diverse films in his award-winning body of work. Sometimes working in the West, sometimes in the East, ...

For the most part the book draws on the opinions of the court from 1817-1875 for its basic source material. What emerges is a vivid portrait of a judicial ...

Audre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a "Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother," but she added that ...

William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre-eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed ...

"Writing at its best is an exalted state, an unlocking of the unconscious and imagination and a contact with sanctity." One of America's most popular ...