The Mississippi Quarterly articles from December 1999

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from December 1999

Senator James Murray Masson: Defender of the Old South.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Senator James Murray Mason: Defender of the Old South, by Robert W. Young. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xvii, 288 pp. $38.00 cloth. EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA, MIGHT WELL BE THE MOST Southern place on earth. When the...

Down on Parchman Farm: The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Down on Parchman Farm: The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta, by William Banks Taylor, with Foreword by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. xv, 255 pp. $16.95 paper. WRITTEN BY A HISTORICALLY MINDED...

Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture, by William J. Mahar. Champaign: University of Illinois. Press, 1999. 444 pp. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper; THE ERA OF THE MINSTREL SHOW MIGHT BE...

Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima, by M. M. Manring. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998. 210 pp. $14.95 paper. THE ERA OF THE MINSTREL SHOW MIGHT BE GONE but blackface continues to pop its burnt-cork head...

Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present, by Jerald T. Milanich. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. xi, 194 pp. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. THIS SURVEY IS PART OF A NEW SERIES ENTITLED "Native Peoples, Cultures, and...

Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America, by Terence Whalen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. x, 328 pp. $55.00 cloth. THERE ARE STILL NO DOUBT MANY READERS WHO ASSOCIATE POE with...

American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War.(Review)
December 22, 1999... American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War, by David Grimsted. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xviii, 372 pp. $65.00 cloth. DAVID GRIMSTED HAS ATTEMPTED TO MAKE SENSE OF THE slavery-related public violence which plagued...

For God and Race: The Religious And Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood.(Review)
December 22, 1999... For God and Race: The Religious And Political Leadership of AMEZ Bishop James Walker Hood, by Sandy Dwayne Martin. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xxiv, 272 pp. $39.95 cloth. IN THIS BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES...

Texas Merchant: Marvin Leonard and Fort Worth.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Texas Merchant: Marvin Leonard and Fort Worth, by Victoria Buenger and Walter L. Buenger. College Station: Texas A&M University Press,1998. xii, 264 pp. $36.95, cloth. TWENTIETH-CENTURY TEXAS HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN of comparatively little...

Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged, by Alan B. Govenar and Jay F. Brakefield. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1998. Xxi, 264pp. $ 29.95, cloth. TWENTIETH-CENTURY TEXAS HAS...

Faith, Serpents, and Fire: Images of Kentucky Holiness Believers.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Faith, Serpents, and Fire: Images of Kentucky Holiness Believers, by Scott Schwartz. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. x, 94 pp. $25.00 cloth. FEW RELIGIOUS SECTS REMAIN AS MYSTERIOUS AS SOME of the fundamentalist churches of...

The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama,by Margaret Anne Barnes. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1998, x, 335 pp. $24.95 cloth. BOTH OF THESE BOOKS DEAL WITH TERRIBLE TIMES in the exceedingly violent history of the...

From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo.(Review)
December 22, 1999... From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo, by Mary Stanton. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998, xiv, 250 pp. $24.95. BOTH OF THESE BOOKS DEAL WITH TERRIBLE TIMES in the exceedingly violent history of the State of...

Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South, by James c. Cobb. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. x, 251 pp. $40.00 cloth. $17.95 paper. VERY FEW HISTORIANS CAN TURN THEIR HAND TO BOTH ECONOMIC and cultural...

Tennessee Williams: A Guide to Research and Performance.(Review)
December 22, 1999... WHEN I WAS FIRST SENT THIS GUIDE TO THE WORK OF Tennessee Williams, I was very excited. I myself have just published a critical study of Williams's later plays, and I was curious to see how the critical reception of his oeuvre had been...

The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist, by Margaret Donovan Bauer. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. xii, 211 pp. $49.95 cloth. THE WORK OF CONTEMPORARY SOUTHERN WRITER Ellen Gilchrist has been inconsistent in quality, to say the...

Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial & Existential South.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial & Existential South, by Jan N. Gretlund. Gylling, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1998. JAN NORDBY GRETLUND' S FRAMES OF SOUTHERN MIND: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial &...

Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains, by Thomas E. Jeffrey. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xi, 450 pp. $50.00 cloth. EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA, MIGHT WELL BE THE MOST Southern place on earth. When the...

The Antislavery Unconscious: Mesmerism, Vodun, and "Equality".(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... THIS ESSAY FOCUSES ON THE DEPOLITICIZING OVERLAP between abolition and the occult, between liberal concern for black bodies and popular interest in white souls.(1) From the mixture of religion, research in "animal magnetism," pseudoscience, and...

Lost in a Sea of Words: Tennessee William's Lifeboat Drill(*).(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... MAKING ITS WORLD PREMIERE FROM DECEMBER 12 through 20, 1979, at New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre on West 52nd Street, Tennessee Williams's Lifeboat Drill was the curtain-raiser for a quadruple repertoire of one-act plays including Christopher...

Walker Percy, the Catholic Church, and Southern Race Relations (ca. 1947-1970).(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... WHILE LITERARY CRITICS OF THE PAST THREE DECADES have embraced Walker Percy as one of the most important Southern writers since World War II, they have devoted relatively little attention to his treatment of one perennially important issue in...

"When Fantasy Meant Survival": Writing, Class, and the Oral Tradition in the Autobiograpies of Rick Bragg and Harry Crews.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... IN 1911, WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY WITNESSED his father's double political defeat--overtly at the hands of the "poor white" forces he deplored, more subtly at the hands of language. From historical accounts (if not Percy's own words) it is plain...

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay, with William L. Andrews, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Barbara T. Christian, Frances Smith Foster, Robert G. O'Meally, Arnold Rampersad, Hortense...

Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition, edited by Patricia Liggins Hill, with Bernard W. Bell, Trudier Harris, William J. Harris, R. Baxter Miller, Sondra A. O'Neale, Horace Porter. Boston:...

The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Robert Penn Warren, The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, edited by John Burt, with a Foreword by Harold Bloom. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xxvi, 856 pp. $39.95 cloth; THE SCHOLARLY MATERIALS HAVE NOW BEEN...

Robert Penn Warren's Novels: Feminine and Feminist Discourse.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Robert Penn Warren's Novels: Feminine and Feminist Discourse. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. 141 pp. $41.95 cloth. THE SCHOLARLY MATERIALS HAVE NOW BEEN ASSEMBLED: a magisterial biography, an authoritative Collected Poems, and volumes that...

The University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History, by David G. Sansing. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999, xii, 412 pp. $37.00 cloth. IN 1974, EARL W. HAYTER'S Education in Transition: The History of Northern Illinois...

The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley, edited by Michael P. Branch and Daniel J. Philippon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xxx, 421 pp. $39.95 cloth, $18.95...

Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Theory, Interpretation. Pedagogy, edited by Greta Gaard and Patrick D. Murphy Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1998. 263 pp. $44.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. PERHAPS MORE ACUTELY THAN OTHER "EMERGING...

Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature, edited by Richard Kerridge and Neil Sammells. New York: ZED Books 1998. x, 246 pp. $65.00 cloth, $22.50 paper. PERHAPS MORE ACUTELY THAN OTHER "EMERGING DISCIPLINES" have, the...

The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South.(Review)
December 22, 1999... The Woods Stretch for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South, edited by John Lane and Gerald Thurmond. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xvii, 238 pp. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper; PERHAPS MORE ACUTELY THAN OTHER "EMERGING...

Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: Departing from Marx.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: Departing from Marx, by Timothy W. Luke. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999, xii, 255 pp, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper; PERHAPS MORE ACUTELY THAN OTHER "EMERGING DISCIPLINES" have, the...

Crossing Wildcat Ridge: A Memoir of Nature and Healing.(Review)
December 22, 1999... Crossing Wildcat Ridge: A Memoir of Nature and Healing, by Philip Lee Willams. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xiii, 235 pp. $24.95. PERHAPS MORE ACUTELY THAN OTHER "EMERGING DISCIPLINES" have, the environmental literature...

A Consuming Fire: The fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South.(Review)
December 22, 1999... A Consuming Fire: The fall of the Confederacy in the mind of the White Christian South, by Eugene D. Genovese. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. xvi, 180 pp. $24.95 cloth. EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA, MIGHT WELL BE THE MOST Southern...

A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M.E. Bradford and his Achievements.(Review)
December 22, 1999... A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M. E. Bradford and His Achievements, edited with an introduction by Clyde N. Wilson. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. vii, 193 pp. $29.95 cloth. EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA, MIGHT WELL BE THE...

James C. Beecher and the Freedmen's Bureau.
December 22, 1999... JAMES C. BEECHER, THE YOUNGEST OF LYMAN BEECHER'S seven sons, all of whom became Congregational ministers, was the only one to serve as a soldier. His military career lasted five years, from June 1861, to June 1866, the last ten months of which...