A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled ...

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 ...

On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violent rioting resulting ...

These ten essays from the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held in 1989 at the University of Mississippi, explore the religious themes in ...

An exploration of the beneficial interplay of the feminist poetry movement and the American women's movement.

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 ...

Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French ...

A sophisticated account of the evolving role of comics in recent French history In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips--called ...

This valuable and informative book is a study of Percy’s five novels in the context of his southern and American literary sources and his tragic ...