Intersecting Worlds

By Jenna Grace Sciuto
Categories: Literature

Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures recalibrates readings of US southern and American writers by exploring comparable depictions of race, colonialism, Whiteness, ...

Voices and Visions

Edited by Nancy Dixon & Leslie Petty
Categories: Literature

Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir, Leslie Petty, Heidi Podlasi-Labrenz, Tierney S. Powell, ...

Larry Brown

By Jean W. Cash
Foreword by Shannon Ravenel
Categories: Mississippi
Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography

Larry Brown (1951–2004) was unique among writers who started their careers in the late twentieth century. Unlike most of them—his friends Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Rick Bass, and Kaye Gibbons, ...

Faulkner, Welty, Wright

Edited by Annette Trefzer, Jay Watson, and James G. Thomas Jr.
Categories: Literature
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Ford, Bernard Joy, John Wharton Lowe, Anne MacMaster, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand, Kevin ...

Flannery at the Grammys

By Irwin H. Streight
Categories: Literature

A devout Catholic, a visionary—and some say prophetic—writer, Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) has gained a growing presence in contemporary popular culture. While O’Connor professed that she did ...

Inventing Benjy

By Frédérique Spill
Translated by Arby Gharibian
Foreword by Taylor Hagood
Categories: Literature

Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap is a groundbreaking work at the intersection of Faulkner studies and disability studies. Originally published in 2009 by Presses de la ...

Black Hibiscus

Edited by John Wharton Lowe
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Simone A. James Alexander, José Felipe Alvergue, Valerie Babb, Pamela Bordelon, Taylor Hagood, Joyce Marie Jackson, Delia Malia Konzett, Jane Landers, John Wharton Lowe, Gary Monroe, ...

American Landscapes

Edited by Ann J. Abadie & J. Richard Gruber
Categories: Art And Architecture
Series: University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses Series

American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World is a major contemporary survey of landscapes in art and literature of the United States, especially the American South. Inspired ...

Faulkner's Families

Edited by Jay Watson & James G. Thomas Jr.
Categories: Literature
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

Contributions by Josephine Adams, Jeff Allred, Garry Bertholf, Maxwell Cassity, John N. Duvall, Katherine Henninger, Maude Hines, Robert Jackson, Julie Beth Napolin, Rebecca Nisetich, George Porter Thomas, ...

Conversations with Beth Henley

Edited by Jackson R. Bryer & Mary C. Hartig
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far ...