The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 2001

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 2001

Reading red: the man with the (gay) red tie in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... SINCE ITS PUBLICATION IN 1929, critics and commentators have analyzed William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury from every perspective imaginable. Essays have been published, for instance, on everything from such oft-discussed elements as...

Unstained shirt, stained character: Anse Bundren reread.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... ANSE BUNDREN OF AS I LAY DYING has been described by critics in largely negative terms. Irving Howe is perhaps easiest on Anse in terming him an example of the "universal comic type, the tyrannically inept schlemiel whose bumbling is so...

Into the swamp at oblique angles: Mason's In Country.(Bobbie Ann Mason)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... "The main thing you learn from history is that you can't learn from history. That's what history is." (1) "To understand is to invent." (2) IN BOBBIE ANN MASON'S In Country, the choice of narrative point of view foregrounds...

David Walker, nature's nation, and early African-American separatism.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2001... SINCE ITS APPEARANCE IN 1829, David Walker's incendiary Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World has often been read as a text sui generis--a document so closely identified with its author's individual mind and unusual circumstances that it...

An Estelle Faulkner letter (1) from California. (Document).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... THOMAS INGE ONCE WROTE THAT William Faulkner "would be the last person to approve our witnessing those private messages" which Faulkner wrote in letters to his family from Hollywood. (2) Most likely Estelle Faulkner would have had similar...

Interview with Lewis Nordan, at his home in Pittsburgh, May 19, 2001. (Interview).(Interview)
June 22, 2001... THOMAS BJERRE: FROM READING YOUR BOOKS it becomes clear that a few themes run like leitmotifs through your work: dead and absent fathers, dead and absent sons, the terrible realization that we are all alone in the world. Now that you have...

Toward "a new Southern studies".
June 22, 2001... The South in Perspective: An Anthology of Southern Literature, edited by Edward Francisco, Robert Vaughan, and Linda Francisco. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2001) i-xxix, 1-1386; "Violence, the Body, and `The South.'"...

Left alone in modernity: Robert Penn Warren and contemporary criticism.(2 books on Robert Penn Warren)
June 22, 2001... Understanding Robert Penn Warren, by James A. Grimshaw, Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 269 pp. $29.95 cloth; Making History: The Biographical Narratives of Robert Penn Warren, by Jonathan S. Cullick. Baton Rouge:...

Reading Flannery O'Connor.(2 books on Flannery O'Connor)
June 22, 2001... Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination, by Sarah Gordon. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xviii, 270 pp. $29.95 cloth; Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius, edited by Sarah Gordon. Athens, Georgia: Hill Street...

Fred Hobson on Southern women's writing: a clarification.(Critical Essay)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2001... In his review of Patricia Yaeger's Dirt And Desire (Winter 2000-01), Michael Kreyling has completely misstated my position on Southern women's writing and the use of history in fiction, as it is expressed in The Southern Writer in the...

Faulkner on the Color Line: the Later Novels.
June 22, 2001... by Theresa M. Towner. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. xi, 179 pp. WHEN CRITICS HAVE TROUBLED THEMSELVES with William Faulkner's later works, they have often been disturbed by signs of Faulkner's patriarchal racism and a...

William Faulkner: the Making of a Modernist.
June 22, 2001... by Daniel J. Singal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii, 357 pp. $34.95 cloth, 18.95 paper. WILLIAM FAULKNER OCCUPIES A RARE PLACE in America's literary history as both a major modernist writer who assimilated and...

Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner.
June 22, 2001... by Carl E. Rollyson, Jr. Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, 1998. THE PAST, IN FAULKNER'S NOW FAMOUS WORDS, "is never dead. It isn't even past." A book devoted to the author's primary obsession would necessarily have to cover...

Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1997.
June 22, 2001... edited by Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. xxix, 299 pp. $50.00 cloth. $24.00 paper. IN FAULKNER AT 100, THE NEWEST ADDITION tO the Faulkner conference series of books, Donald M....

After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South.
June 22, 2001... by Matthew Guinn. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. $18.00 paper; The World is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing, edited by Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summers Folks, Lexington: University Press of...

Advancing Sisterhood? Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction.
June 22, 2001... by Sharon Monteith. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2000. pp. x, 241. $42.00 cloth. THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK SHOULD BE Interracial Friendships Between Females in Recent Southern Novels Written by White Women, but one can...

Up From Bondage: the Literatures of Russian and African American Soul.
June 22, 2001... by Dale E. Peterson. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 249 pp., $18.95 (paper). THE LITERARY TIES AND CULTURAL AFFINITY between African Americans and Russians have not been widely recognized or sufficiently...

Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White.
June 22, 2001... by George B. Handley. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000. THE QUESTIONING OF NATIONALISM WITHIN American Studies and Southern Studies' dismantling of exceptionalist myths of the South have been instrumental in challenging...

The Daughter's Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History.
June 22, 2001... by Caroline Rody. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 267 pp. $49.95 cloth. THE DAUGHTER'S RETURN; African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History, by Caroline Rody, is a welcome addition to a growing body of criticism...

Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do.
June 22, 2001... by Charles W. Wadelington and Richard F. Knapp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999; and Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893, by Robert Francis Engs....

Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Southern Confederate Constitutionalism.
June 22, 2001... by Mark E. Neely, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, vii, 212 pp. Cloth $35.00. IT IS COMMONLY ASSUMED THAT THE Confederacy had a greater love and respect for civil liberties than the United States did during the Civil...

John Laurens and the American Revolution.
June 22, 2001... by Gregory D. Massey. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. 327 pp. $34.95 cloth. GREGORY MASSEY'S STUDY OF JOHN LAURENS could serve as a guide to the now outmoded concepts of chivalry, which Laurens embodied. According to...