The Mississippi Quarterly articles from December 1993

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from December 1993

Robert Penn Warren's 'Audubon': vision and revision.
December 22, 1993... In a 1969 interview with Richard Sale, Robert Penn Warren describes his intentions in writing Audubon: A Vision: "I just finished a long poem, Audubon: A Vision. It's about Audubon's life as a kind of focus for a lot of things about humans. I...

The saving rape: Flannery O'Connor and patriarchal religion.
December 22, 1993... "Batter my heart, three-personed God" - so begins Donne's Holy Sonnet 14, the best-known literary text in English that figures spiritual redemption as a purifying sexual assault: Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthral me,...

Racial and textual miscegenation in Chesnutt's 'The House Behind the Cedars.' (Charles Chesnutt)
December 22, 1993... Current students of ethnic literature are revising the separatism that marked the pioneering efforts to expand the canon. For example, Barbara E. Johnson notes "the ineradicable trace of Western culture within Afro-American culture."(1) And...

Poe and 'The Awakening.' (Edgar Allan Poe)
December 22, 1993... Like her critical predecessors, Emily Toth, in her recent biography of Kate Chopin, gives no source for the published title of The Awakening, or for its first title, "The Solitary Soul."(1) I believe the origin of both lies in one poem by Poe,...

Adlai E. Stevenson and Southern politics in 1892.
December 22, 1993... Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897, played a prominent role in the presidential election of 1892. His most important task was winning the South, a region where he had built a political foundation by...

Ellen Glasgow: The Contemporary Reviews.
December 22, 1993... If American fiction were, in fat, a great big house, Ellen Glasgow would be the elephant on the back veranda. Her twenty novels, volume of poems, volume of short stories, volume of prefaces, volume of miscellaneous essays, and autobiography are...

Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars.
December 22, 1993... In a series of essays that span the last seven years, some of which are revised speeches or previously published essays, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., plunges with not a little equanimity into the breach that he aptly titles Loose Canons: Notes on...

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness in the Literary Imagination.
December 22, 1993... In a series of essays that span the last seven years, some of which are revised speeches or previously published essays, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., plunges with not a little equanimity into the breach that he aptly titles Loose Canons: Notes on...

Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston.
December 22, 1993... The books considered here may, at first glance, seem quite disparate Nevertheless, a common thread runs through them, which I term "African-Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, and the United States Supreme Court." All six works, then, are...

Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Rural South.
December 22, 1993... The books considered here may, at first glance, seem quite disparate Nevertheless, a common thread runs through them, which I term "African-Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, and the United States Supreme Court." All six works, then, are...

And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s.
December 22, 1993... The books considered here may, at first glance, seem quite disparate Nevertheless, a common thread runs through them, which I term "African-Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, and the United States Supreme Court." All six works, then, are...

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present.
December 22, 1993... The books considered here may, at first glance, seem quite disparate Nevertheless, a common thread runs through them, which I term "African-Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, and the United States Supreme Court." All six works, then, are...

John Marshall Harlan: The Last Whig Justice.
December 22, 1993... The books considered here may, at first glance, seem quite disparate Nevertheless, a common thread runs through them, which I term "African-Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, and the United States Supreme Court." All six works, then, are...

Rosa Parks: My Story.
December 22, 1993... The books considered here may, at first glance, seem quite disparate Nevertheless, a common thread runs through them, which I term "African-Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, and the United States Supreme Court." All six works, then, are...

Vietnam and the Southern Imagination.
December 22, 1993... Shortly before sunrise on September 21, 1967, Jerry Wayne Boutwell, an eighteen-year-old Mississippian who had never been more than one hundred miles from his home in Pearl River County, rolled out of his bed, took a bath and got dressed. His...

Vietnam, We've All Been There: Interviews with American Writers.
December 22, 1993... Shortly before sunrise on September 21, 1967, Jerry Wayne Boutwell, an eighteen-year-old Mississippian who had never been more than one hundred miles from his home in Pearl River County, rolled out of his bed, took a bath and got dressed. His...

Cajun Country.
December 22, 1993... Writings on Louisiana have proliferated in the past two decades, dominated by a small cadre of researchers at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and Louisiana State University who are interested mostly in Cajun culture to the exclusion of...

Acadian to Cajun: Transformations of a People, 1803-1888.
December 22, 1993... Writings on Louisiana have proliferated in the past two decades, dominated by a small cadre of researchers at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and Louisiana State University who are interested mostly in Cajun culture to the exclusion of...

Folklife in Louisiana Photography: Images of Tradition.
December 22, 1993... Writings on Louisiana have proliferated in the past two decades, dominated by a small cadre of researchers at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and Louisiana State University who are interested mostly in Cajun culture to the exclusion of...

Georgia Voices, vol. 1, Fiction.
December 22, 1993... STATE ANTHOLOGIES CAN BE VERY USEFUL BAROMETERS for noting the changes in the state of mind of the people of the Republic. Such collections of fiction in the early part of the century tended to be good and pleasant works of fiction scraped...

John Gould Fletcher and Southern Modernism.
December 22, 1993... John Gould Fletcher is best known as an expatriate residing in London who first achieved fame as one of the Imagist poets and later as one of the Nashville Fugitives. Subsequently, he contributed an essay on Southern education to the Agrarian...

Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982.
December 22, 1993... By Allean Hale's astute accounting, Tennessee Williams has been the subject of thirty-three books since his death in 1983-apparently still mysterious and controversial. They run the gamut from scholarly research to such casual reminiscence as...

Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre.
December 22, 1993... By Allean Hale's astute accounting, Tennessee Williams has been the subject of thirty-three books since his death in 1983-apparently still mysterious and controversial. They run the gamut from scholarly research to such casual reminiscence as...

Confronting Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire": Essays in Critical Pluralism.
December 22, 1993... By Allean Hale's astute accounting, Tennessee Williams has been the subject of thirty-three books since his death in 1983-apparently still mysterious and controversial. They run the gamut from scholarly research to such casual reminiscence as...

Native Son.
December 22, 1993... Robert Butler's monograph on Richard Wright's greatest work, and, it is increasingly apparent, one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century, is an exceptionally useful book. Teachers at all levels from instructors of...

Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic.
December 22, 1993... In the past decade or so, a "new" Mark Twain has become the subject for "radical" biography and critical interpretation. Areas of interest and subject matters have expanded to include his sexuality, his gender and cross-gender obsessions, and...

Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou.
December 22, 1993... Kate Chopin's work, which fell out of favor after publication of The Awakening and which remained virtually unknown and untaught for years, has moved from near obscurity to canonization in the past two decades. This is the view which Cathy...

The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later.
December 22, 1993... As Vernon Burton notes in his essay in the volume edited by Charles Eagles, over the past two years both Wilbur J. Cash and his enduring, albeit much maligned, classic interpretation of the American South have received much attention. These two...

W.J. Cash and the Minds of the South.
December 22, 1993... As Vernon Burton notes in his essay in the volume edited by Charles Eagles, over the past two years both Wilbur J. Cash and his enduring, albeit much maligned, classic interpretation of the American South have received much attention. These two...

James Agee: Reconsiderations.
December 22, 1993... This slim volume is compromised primarily essays originally delivered (in earlier versions) at "The Agee Legacy" conference, held in March of 1989 at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Perhaps because they were first intended for a...

Ernest Gaines.
December 22, 1993... Valerie Melissa Babb's Ernest Gaines is a welcomed addition to Twayne's United States Authors Series. Babb presents Gaines as "The Bayou Griot," emphasizing both the African-American storytelling heritage and the French Louisiana culture so...

Critical Essays on Anne Tyler.
December 22, 1993... It wasn't until she had published ten novels and won a Pulitzer Prize that Anne Tyler began to receive more than scattered critical attention. Then, in short order, three books appeared: Joseph C. Voelker's Art and the Accidental in Anne Tyler...

Missions in the Calusa.
December 22, 1993... John H. Hann has produced a comprehensive English source book concerning the Calusa Indians of South Florida and their neighbors as seen through Spanish eyes. The volume was prepared to supplement source material from recent archaeological...

Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War.
December 22, 1993... Southern Stories by Drew Gilpin Faust is a compilation of ten essays on Southern history written between 1977 and 1992, essays in which Faust focuses on antebellum poems, songs, diaries, letters, public addresses and other forms of expression...

Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie.
December 22, 1993... Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie is a history of seven counties along the Missouri River originally settled by slaveholders. It covers the period from approximately 1815 to 1860. The area was commonly known as Little Dixie...

The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions: 1845-1871.
December 22, 1993... The question of the disapperance or persistence of the Southern elite has become one of the leading controversies for historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction period. Vicki Vaughn Johnson has added new evidence to the debate that suggests...

A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
December 22, 1993... Nathan Bedford Forrest has been one of the few figures of antebellum Southern history who has defied the tendency of writers to describe the region in terms of gentility, aristocracy, and anti-commercialism. A commoner who battled his way from...

John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence.
December 22, 1993... McMurr'y's Hood is a man whose military development was forever influenced by two factors. First, he was born in the romanticism of the post-1830 South. It was an era when Southerners were increasingly turning away from their earlier...

Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie.
December 22, 1993... Barring Charles Francis Adams, most sons of nineteenth-century Presidents struggled to escape their fathers' shadows. But, thanks to T. Michael Parrish, we now know that Zachary Taylor's only son, Richard, too, made his own mark on history....

Flagler: Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron.
December 22, 1993... This book is a story of the life and times of Henry Morrison Flagler. It is a history of two developing industries that flourished in America during the late nineteenth century - oil and railroads. Flagler was involved in both. Henry...

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and African-American Religion in the South.
December 22, 1993... In the first serious book-length treatment of Henry McNeal Turner, Stephen Ward Angell, associated professor of religious studies at Florida A & M University, focuses on the life of a truly fascinating figure. Reverdy Ransom, one of Turner's...

Conservative Restraints: North Carolina and the New Deal.
December 22, 1993... State and local studies like this are the most instructive about New Deal politics. Clearly, the New Deal was nationally a window of opportunity for liberals. However, its beginning was a modest one. A reading of Abrams's book and other...

Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South.
December 22, 1993... In a career that stretches over four decades, Nashville journalist John Egerton has consistently offered thoughtful analyses of his native South. In Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South Egerton considers the "new" New South created...