The Mississippi Quarterly articles from December 2001

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from December 2001

Hybridity and racial identity in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... IN AN ESSAY WRITTEN SHORTLY AFTER the publication of his first novel, The Moviegoer (1960), Walker Percy asserted the inescapable commitment of the writer--especially the Southern writer--to the issue of race: "Every Southern writer must come...

Dangerous spending habits: the epistemology of Edna Pontellier's extravagant expenditures in The Awakening.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... IN AN INTROSPECTIVE DIARY ENTRY OF 1884, the widowed and motherless Kate Chopin wrote: If it were possible for my husband and my mother to come back to earth, I feel that I would unhesitatingly give up every thing that has come...

O Lost: a family history.(Thomas Wolfe)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... BEGINNING WITH HIS WORK ON THE FOUR-ACT PLAY Mannerhouse during his last year at Harvard (1922-23), Thomas Wolfe produced at least four significant texts that are either preliminary to or actual versions of Look Homeward, Angel They are as...

Images of Pushkin in the works of the black "pilgrims".
December 22, 2001... A SHIFT IN THE DISCUSSION OF Alexander Pushkin's African lineage during the early years of the Soviet Union strengthened the bond between Russia and American blacks, a bond desired by both parties and seen as beneficial to each. The Soviets...

Terrain, character and text: is Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier a post-pastoral novel?(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... WHEN, IN 1873, JOHN MUIR WROTE THANKING the Oakland schoolmaster John McChesney for the loan of the works of John Ruskin, he must have known that he had in his hands books that would inform his readina of all other books henceforth. (1) Indeed,...

Searching for home: cross-racial bonding in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... I... have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed--we hold these truths to be serf-evident, that all men are created equal. ...

Ellen Gilchrist's women who would be queens (and those who would dethrone them).(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... "There is an old gorgeous man living right here in Jackson, Mississippi, that I have been loving and fighting with and showing off for since I was born.... My father." (1) "It's that old daddy.... That's who we love." (2)...

Repeating with a difference: new readings of the quixotic and the religious in Southern literature.(Struggles Over the Word: Race and Religion in O'Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright; The Southern Inheritors of Don Quixote; Walker Percy's Sacramental Landscapes)
December 22, 2001... Struggles Over the Word: Race and Religion in O'Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright, by Timothy P. Caron. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2000; The Southern Inheritors of Don Quixote, by Montserrat Gines. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State...

Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity.
December 22, 2001... edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Illustrations. 366 pp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. EARLY IN HIS WIDE-RANGING INTRODUCTION to this collection of essays, W. Fitzhugh Brundage makes a...

Episcopalians & Race: Civil War to Civil Rights.
December 22, 2001... by Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. Xiii, 298 pp. $32.50. SINCE H. SHELTON SMITH PUBLISHED In His Image, But... Racism in Southern Religion, 1780-1910 nearly thirty years ago, race and religion in...

William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier.
December 22, 2001... by Edward J. Cashin. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, xv, 319 pp. $39.95, cloth. WILLIAM BARTRAM WAS ONE OF eighteenth-century America's best-known naturalists, famous for his...

Lincoln of Kentucky.
December 22, 2001... by Lowell H. Harrison. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000, x, 305 pp. $22.00 cloth. LOWELL, HARRISON, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY EMERITUS at Western Kentucky University, has written extensively on Kentucky history with a special...

Henry Clay: the Lawyer.
December 22, 2001... by Maurice G. Baxter. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. x, 152 pp. Index. $24.95. MAURICE G. BAXTER, PROFESSOR EMERITUS of history at Indiana University, has produced a short but useful monograph assessing the legal career of...

A Sherwood Bonner Sampler. 1869-1884: What a Bright, Educated, Witty, Lively, Snappy Young Woman Can Say on a Variety of Topics.
December 22, 2001... edited by Anne Razey Gowdy. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. 451pp. $42.00 WITH THE PUBLICATION OF THIS VOLUME, more of the varied writings of Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883), who used the pen name Sherwood...

Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: from Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson.
December 22, 2001... by Timothy J. Cox. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2001. POSTMODERN TALES OF SLAVERY ATTEMPTS something that few literary critics have been in a position to do: to examine comparatively novels about slavery across the English, French,...

Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature.
December 22, 2001... edited by Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. $26.00 TO THOSE ACADEMICS THAT FEAR THE INVASION of postcolonial discourse in American Studies because it will undo the project of American...