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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 ...
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Valuable scholarship from a leading textual critic
As one of the preeminent scholars of southern literature, Noel Polk has delivered lectures, written ...
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Contributions by Kelly Blewett, Claudia Camicia, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Elisabeth Graves, Karlie Herndon, KaaVonia Hinton, Holly Blackford ...
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The poetry of John Berryman (1914-1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political, sexual, racial, and technological ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre-eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed ...
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"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 ...
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John Ford's classic films--such as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, and The Searchers--have earned him worldwide ...
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"I lead a kind of staid life, actually, and oftentimes the characters will do things i would never dream of doing, or be ways i would never dare to be. ...
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Winner of the 2019 Gordon K. ' Sybil Lewis Book Award In 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian ...
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A thorough reckoning of the evolving ideas and legacy of a founding force in American evangelism
Evangelicals and scholars of religious history have long ...
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Contributions by Murali Balaji, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Christopher Cameron, Carlton Dwayne Floyd, Robert Greene II, Andre E. Johnson, Werner Lange, Lisa ...
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In the 1940s and '50s, Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991) was among the best known and most respected folk singers in America. Paul O. Jenkins tells, for ...
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Taking up the role of laughter in society, How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 examines an era in which the ...
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Collected correspondence from arguably the most important folklorist of the twentieth century
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) was one of the most stimulating and ...
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Contributions by Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Benjamin Burkhart, Ivy Chevers, Martha I. Chew Sánchez, Athena Elafros, William García-Medina, ...
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An exploration of the history and intent behind the song lyrics of a great American folk singer. "Essential." -- Choice
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A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled ...
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How African influences enriched narratives from enslaved and free blacks writing in Britain and the New World
In the past, scholars have looked at narratives ...
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On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violent rioting resulting ...
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These ten essays from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 1989 at the University of Mississippi, explore the religious themes in ...
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An exploration of the beneficial interplay of the feminist poetry movement and the American women's movement.
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Brierfield: Plantation Home of Jefferson Davis
by Frank Edgar Everett, Jr.
This is the story of a house, "Brierfield," and incidentally of a man, Jefferson ...
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Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French ...
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A sophisticated account of the evolving role of comics in recent French history
In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips--called ...
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