Southern Religion, Southern Culture

Edited by Darren E. Grem, Ted Ownby, James G. Thomas, and Jr.
Categories: History
Series: Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series

Contributions by Ryan L. Fletcher, Darren E. Grem, Paul Harvey, Alicia Jackson, Ted Ownby, Otis W. Pickett, Arthur Remillard, Chad Seales, and Randall J. Stephens

Over more than three decades of teaching ...

Troubling Masculinities

By Glen Donnar
Categories: Film Studies

Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 is the first multigenre study of representations of masculinity following the emergence of violent terror as a ...

Fifty Years after Faulkner

Edited by Jay Watson & Ann J. Abadie
Categories: Literature
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

Contributions by Ted Atkinson, Michael P. Bibler, Deborah Clarke, David A. Davis, David M. Earle, Jason D. Fichtel, Elizabeth Fielder, Joseph Fruscione, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Patrick E. Horn, Cheryl Lester, ...

Taking Flight

By Jennifer Donahue
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

Caribbean women have long utilized the medium of fiction to break the pervasive silence surrounding abuse and exploitation. Contemporary works by such authors as Tiphanie Yanique and Nicole Dennis-Benn ...

Conversations with Joanna Scott

Edited by Michael Lackey
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America’s leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott’s unique and probing vision and masterful ...

Comic Art in Museums

Edited by Kim A. Munson
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Kenneth Baker, Jaqueline Berndt, Albert Boime, John Carlin, Benoit Crucifix, David Deitcher, Michael Dooley, Damian Duffy, M. C. Gaines, Paul Gravett, Diana Green, Karen Green, Doug Harvey, ...

Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country

By Roy DeBerry, Aviva Futorian, Stephen Klein, and John Lyons
Categories: History

Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi—an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than ...

Clothing and Fashion in Southern History

Edited by Ted Ownby & Becca Walton
Afterword by Jonathan Prude
Categories: History

Contributions by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Katie Knowles, Ted Ownby, Jonathan Prude, William Sturkey, Susannah Walker, Becca Walton, and Sarah Jones Weicksel

Fashion studies have long centered on the art and ...

New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child

Edited by Alice Knox Eaton, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, and Shirley A. Stave
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Alice Knox Eaton, Mar Gallego, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally, Susana Vega-González, and Anissa Wardi

In her eleventh novel, God Help ...

The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

By Lydia Cabrera
Edited by Ivor L. Miller & P. González Gómes-Cásseres
Contributions by Victor Manfredi
Categories: Caribbean Studies

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. ...