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The Mississippi Quarterly articles from June 2004
A quarterly referred journal of culture of the southern United States. Articles include historical analysis, literary criticism, and original research. Published by Mississippi State University.
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The Mississippi Quarterly archives from June 2004
Kate Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings": the marital burden and the lure of consumerism.
June 22, 2004... IT IS NO NEWS THAT, FAILING TO FIND FULFILLMENT in their marriages, wives in Kate Chopin's fiction are sometimes driven in their desperation to suicide, adultery, or desertion. But in "A Pair of Silk Stockings," (1) a story too rarely discussed...
Cultural studies' misfit: white trash studies.
June 22, 2004... IN DOROTHY ALLISON'S Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), the first-person narrator, a young girl called "Bone," describes 1950s rural poverty and what it means to be white trash. Bone lives in relatively stark conditions amid the culture of fifties...
Recognizing the step: Rodney Jones and the Southern speaking poem.
June 22, 2004...
I know what it is to speak without knowing
How it will be received, to take a number,
To sway in a long-decadent tongue as on
A hammock stretched between two pining
Consonants, to audit the gross diphthong,
To pray Do...
"Something haphazard and botched": Flannery O'Connor's critique of the visual in "Parker's Back".
June 22, 2004... "PARKER'S BACK," THE LAST SHORT STORY that Flannery O'Connor published during her lifetime, occupies a unique position in her career, not just by virtue of its belatedness but also for the relative gentleness of its ending. Gone are the...
"Prodjickin', or mekin' a present to yo' fam'ly": rereading empowerment in Thomas Nelson Page's frame narratives.
June 22, 2004... GIVEN THE STABILITY OF SOUTHERN SOCIAL HIERARCHY that Thomas Nelson Page's writing asserts, it is strange that his first three published stories--"Marse Chan. A Tale of Old Virginia," "'Unc' Edinburg's Drowndin'.' A Plantation Echo," and "Meh...
Magical realism and the Mississippi Delta.
June 22, 2004... Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives...
Variations on the grotesque: from Poe's "The Black Cat" to Oates's "The White Cat".
June 22, 2004... IN HER "AFTERWORD" TO Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994), Joyce Carol Oates discusses the concept of the grotesque, pointing out its allure, variety, and pervasiveness in art throughout the centuries. Significantly, she refers to Poe's...
Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda stories: a commentary on the cultural ideologies of gender identity.
June 22, 2004... IN DISCUSSIONS OF THE TREATMENT OF WOMEN in Katherine Anne Porter's short stories, critics almost invariably examine the recurring character of Miranda. Typically, scholars such as William L. Nance and John Edward Hardy focus on how her...
South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xxiii, 394 pp. $85.00 cloth. $34.95 paper.
NUMEROUS SCHOLARS HAVE RECENTLY COMPLAINED...
Willa Cather's Southern Connections." New Essays on Cather and the South.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Willa Cather's Southern Connections." New Essays on Cather and the South, edited by Ann Romines. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. 240 pp. $59.50 cloth. $18.50 paper; Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World, by Janis P. Stout....
Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South, by James R. Cothran. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 321 pp. $49.95 cloth.
IT'S HARD FOR MOST SOUTHERNERS to imagine a time before the landscape was redolent with...
More Lights Than One: on the Fiction of Fred Chappell.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, edited by Patrick Bizzaro, with a foreword by Robert Morgan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xv, 288 pp. $44.95 cloth.
A COLLECTION OF SCHOLARLY ESSAYS Oil a single...
The Autobiographical Outline for "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... The Autobiographical Outline for "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe, edited by Lucy Conniff and Richard S. Kennedy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xxv, 99 pp. $18.95 paper.
THAT THOMAS WOLFE IS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL...