The Mississippi Quarterly articles from December 2002

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from December 2002

"The Birth of a Nation'hood": lessons from Thomas Dixon and D.W. Griffith to William Bradford Huie and The Klansman, O.J. Simpson's First Movie (1).
December 22, 2002... The film Birth of a Nation, based on the novel The Klansman [sic], gathered up and solidified post-Civil War America's assumptions of and desires for white supremacy. The Simpson spectacle has become an enunciation of post-Civil Rights...

"The degeneration of nationalism": colonialism, perversion, and the American South.
December 22, 2002... In the United States we have had a glaring spectacle of sectionalism and of its issue, a century ago, in a long bloody struggle to break an American "secondary" nationality into two: a Northern States' and a Southern States';...

Silence and voices in Robert Penn Warren's The Cave.
December 22, 2002... "ALL CAVES SPEAK," STATES GASTON BACHELARD IN The Earth and the Reveries of the Will. (1) Yet Robert Penn Warren's The Cave is at once more vocal than any other Warren novels and strangely silent. Built around the entrapment and death of Jasper...

Human genetics and All the King's Men: the case of Jack Burden's paternity.
December 22, 2002... BY THE END OF THE 1946 VERSION OF All the King's Men, the reader is led to believe, along with Jack Burden, that Jack's father is not Ellis Burden, the Scholarly Attorney, but is Judge Irwin, the man who commits suicide as the result of...

She'll take her stand: Gwen Bristow's neo-agrarianism and visions of modernity.
December 22, 2002... OVER THE COURSE OF HER WRITING CAREER, which began in 1915 with a feature article in The State (Columbia, South Carolina) and culminated in 1980 with Golden Dreams, Gwen Bristow produced a large and varied repertoire. In 1925, after studying a...

The working-class pastoral of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee.
December 22, 2002... ZORA NEALE HURSTON'S MUCH-MALIGNED "WHITE NOVEL," Seraph on the Suwanee (1948) has been routinely disparaged by critics as a betrayal of Hurston's African-American roots and/or as a blatant, flawed attempt to cash in by appealing to a wider...

Between men: homosocial desire in Walker Percy's Lancelot.
December 22, 2002... JAY TOLSON, IN Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy, discusses the "mysterious female 'Other'" who repeatedly appears in Percy's work. (1) Tolson evaluates this sometimes ghostlike character as the embodiment of "the subtle power women...

A letter by Mary Noailles Murfree.(Document)
December 22, 2002... DURING HER LONG CAREER, THE ATTITUDE of Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922) toward publishers changed significantly. She paid little attention to them in the early part of her literary life; later on, she almost begged them to publish her works....

Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... by Dean McWilliams. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. xii, 261 pp. $39.95. AS A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLTEACHER in rural South Carolina, Charles Chesnutt was bewildered and exasperated by the inscrutable folkways of his pupils....

Conversations with Willie Morris.(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... edited by Jack Bales. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. xx, 207 pp. $46.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. Conversations with Ellen Douglas, edited by Panthea Reid. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. xxiii, 228 pp. $46.00 cloth,...