The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 2000

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 2000

Beyond the Gothic Sublime: Poe's Pym or the Journey of Equivocal (E)motions(*).(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... TOO MANY INTERPRETATIONS OF The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) have already been given: in fact, it might be said that the approaches to this text are practically exhausted, as recent recapitulatory critical studies by Richard Kopley and...

"When You Got True Dirt You Got Everything You Need": Forging an Appalachian Arcadia in Fred Chappell's Midquest.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... IN HIS ESSAY "THE POET AND THE PLOWMAN," Fred Chappell ponders what he considers to be one of the fundamental issues facing poets ever since the classical age: the fact that it is impractical, if not impossible, to pursue both a life of poetry...

Toward a New Southern Poetry: Folk Art and the Post-Christian Vision of Tony Crunk.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2000... IN 1994 JAMES DICKEY SELECTED TONY CRUNK'S Living in the Resurrection (1995) as the winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.(1) But in the foreword Dickey struggles to elucidate the volume's themes. He first contends...

Fortune and Misery: Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans, A Biographical Portrait and Selected Fiction, 1891-1920.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Fortune and Misery: Sallie Rhett Roman of New Orleans, A Biographical Portrait and Selected Fiction, 1891-1920, by Nancy Dixon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xx, 218 pp. $26.95. THREE RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON NEW...

Literary New Orleans in the Modern World.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Literary New Orleans in the Modern World, edited by Richard S. Kennedy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xviii, 170 pp. $26.95. THREE RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON NEW ORLEANS, particularly when read conjointly, provide a rich...

Literary New Orleans.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Literary New Orleans, edited by Judy Long. Athens, Georgia: Hill Street Press, 1999. 304 pp. $16.95 paper. THREE RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON NEW ORLEANS, particularly when read conjointly, provide a rich and comprehensive view of the literary...

The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine, edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. x, 238 pp. $45.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. Our despair requires consolation, and the medicine of a...

Percyscapes: The Fugue State in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Percyscapes: The Fugue State in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction, by Robert W. Rudnicki. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xx, 167 pp. $30.00 cloth. Our despair requires consolation, and the medicine of a profound...

Walker Percy's Voices.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Walker Percy's Voices, by Michael Kobre. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. x, 238 pp. $35.00 cloth. Our despair requires consolation, and the medicine of a profound narration.(1) WHEN DERRIDA ENTERED THE APOTHECARY SHOP of...

Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle, by Michael Keith Honey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xxi, 402 pp. $29.95 cloth. THROUGH HIS INTERVIEWS WITH MEMPHIS-AREA...

Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic, by Ruth Weston. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1008. xii, 147 pp. $25.00, cloth; BARRY HANNAH WAS BORN IN CLINTON in 1042; Richard Ford was born in Jackson in 1944. Given their...

Perspectives on Richard Ford.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Perspectives on Richard Ford, edited by Huey Guagliardo. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. xx, 210 pp. $45.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. BARRY HANNAH WAS BORN IN CLINTON in 1042; Richard Ford was born in Jackson in 1944. Given...

America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
June 22, 2000... America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century, by Philip F. Gura and James F. Bollman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 303 pp. $45.00 cloth. I FIRST HEARD THE SOUND OF THE BANJO WHEN I was a small...

Southern Politics in the 1990s.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Southern Politics in the 1990s, edited by Alexander P. Lamis. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xv, 490 pp. Notes. Index. $39.95 cloth. THE SOUTH'S TRANSFORMATION FROM EXTRAORDINARY Democratic Party kingdom to two-party...

Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume One: The Apprentice Years, 1924-1934.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume One: The Apprentice Years, 1924-1934, edited by William Bedford Clark. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. xxi, 274 pp. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. $39.95 cloth. ...

Erskine Caldwell: Selected Letters, 1929-1955.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Erskine Caldwell: Selected Letters, 1929-1955, edited by Robert L. McDonald. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1999. ix, 249 pp. $48.50 cloth. IN HIS INTRODUCTORY ESSAY TO THIS SELECTION of Caldwell's letters, Robert...

World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor.(Review)
June 22, 2000... World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor, by David M. Robinson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xii, 209 pp. $29.95. FOR A WRITER WHO HAS ATTRACTED CRITICAL PRAISE for beautifully crafted fiction and who won the...

Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor, by Barbara Bennett. Southern Literature Studies series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.xiii, 135 pp. $27.50 cloth. WITHIN HER STUDY BARBARA...

Men Like That: A Southern Queer History.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, by John Howard. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 395 pp. $27.50 cloth. IF THERE HAS EVER BEEN A PLACE REGARDED stereotypically as a site of departure rather than destination, it is the...

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement, edited by Susie Erenrich. Montgomery, Alabama: Black Belt Press, 1999. xv, 543 pp. $28.95 paper. LITERATURE ON MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM SUMMER has not been...

The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South, by Gail Williams O'Brien. University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 352 pp. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. IN THIS EXTRAORDINARY BOOK, Gail Williams O'Brien...

American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture: 1830-1998.(Review)
June 22, 2000... American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture: 1830-1998, by Ted Ownby. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 228 pp. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. IN HIS BOOK TED OWNBY STUDIES MISSISSIPPIANS' ideas...

Outside the Southern Myth.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Outside the Southern Myth, by Noel Polk. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. xviii, 213 pp. $17.00 paper. $45.00 cloth. THE SOCIOLOGIST JOHN SHELTON REED ONCE OBSERVED that if one defines the South by traditional criteria, most...

The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas, by Bobby L. Lovett, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999. xi, 314 pp. $36.00 cloth; $18.00 paper. THIS BOOK IS PART OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY...

Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy, by Stephen Kantrowitz. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Illustrations. 422 pp. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. STEPHEN KANTROWITZ CLEARLY AND SUCCINCTLY STATES in its...

Black, White and Huckleberry Finn: Re-Imagining the American Dream.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Black, White and Huckleberry Finn: Re-Imagining the American Dream, by Elaine Mensh and Harry Mensh. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000. 168 pp. $29.95 cloth. WITH BLACK, WHITE AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Elaine and Harry Mensh make...

Theodore O'Hara: Poet Soldier of the Old South.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Theodore O'Hara: Poet Soldier of the Old South, by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., and Thomas Clayton Ware. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. pp. xiii, 208. $32.00 cloth. WHATEVER ELSE IT MAY HAVE BEEN, THE RISE OF MODERNISM...

The Papers of John Marshall: Volume X, Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1824-March 1827.(Review)
June 22, 2000... The Papers of John Marshall: Volume X, Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1824-March 1827, edited by Charles E Hobson, Susan Holbrooke Perdue, and Robert W. Smith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press in...