The Mississippi Quarterly articles from March 1994

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from March 1994

Multi-cultural aesthetic in Kate Chopin's "A Gentleman of Bayou Teche."
March 22, 1994... "A GENTLEMAN OF BAYOU TECHE" BY KATE Chopin is seldom read and has attracted virtually no critical attention, but the subject and design of this sketch amply demonstrate that its author understood how subcultures can be particularly sensitive...

Richard Wright's 'The Man Who Lived Underground,' nihilism, and zen.
March 22, 1994... The Man Who Lived Underground, A NOVELLA INCLUDED IN WRIGHT'S posthumous collection of short fiction, Eight Men,(1) has largely been regarded as an existentialist work.(2) Few critics, however, have spoken of the ambivalence in Wright's...

"Night, Mistuh Charlie": the Porter ion Tennessee Williams's "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches" and the kairos of negritude.
March 22, 1994... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS'S ONE-ACT PLAY "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches," included in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, has been regarded as pretty much of a one-man show. Mr. Charlie Bolton, a seventy-eight-year-old shoe salesman billed as "the last of...

Toole's proboscis: some effluvial concerns in 'The Neon Bible.' (John Kennedy Toole)
March 22, 1994... IF, AS WILLIAM BEDFORD CLARK ASSERTS, A Confederacy of Dunces in the end affirms "a transcendentally comic view of humankind's place in the cosmos,"(1) then The Neon Bible perhaps may be said to affirm a tragic one. Since we know that both...

Roses for Sharron.
March 22, 1994... A GULF COAST BREEZE BLOWS THROUGH Roses for Sharron(1), mingling the scent of a woman with the aroma of incense remembered from a Sunday in childhood. This first collection of poetry by Philip C. Kolin, Charles W. Moorman Distinguished...

Abundant years: an Elizabeth Spencer checklist, 1976 to 1992. (Bibliography)
March 22, 1994... WITH THE APPEARANCE OF The Night Travellers in 1991 Elizabeth Spencer achieved the milestone of having published within each of six consecutive decades. This noteworthy accomplishment raises the question of how a writer maintains a vibrant...

The Creation of Jazz.
March 22, 1994... That has begun to change. A younger generation of historians, more concerned with cultural patterns than government and politics, has seen in jazz an invaluable resource for penetrating more deeply into the social fabric of the early decades of...

Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930.
March 22, 1994... A more nuanced approach to the relationship between jazz and the institutions that supported it is evident throughout William Kenney's study, Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930. The book falls into several distinct parts. The...

Josephine Humphreys and the politics of postmodern desire. (Special Section on Josephine Humphreys)
March 22, 1994... CRITICS OF SOUTHERN LITERATURE HAVE BEEN HESITANT to embrace postmodern thought. Some among us fear that to give credence to postmodernism is to question the very foundation of Southern literature as we know it: the idea of a definable region...

Josephine Humphreys's 'Dreams of Sleep': revising Walker Percy's male gaze. (Special Section on Josephine Humphreys)
March 22, 1994... WALKER PERCY'S LEGACY TO CONTEMPORARY NOVELIST Josephine Humphreys is profound. In the tradition of Percy, Humphreys creates selfconscious main characters who are cerebral and analytical and who deal with feelings of dislocation in the...

Josephine Humphreys's 'Rich in Love': redefining Southern fiction. (Special Section on Josephine Humphreys)
March 22, 1994... LUCILLE ODOM, THE NARRATOR OF Rich in Love (1987), confides in the reader as she studies her identity, "But I was angling for a view of something else, a look inward,"(1) and her words resonate with the question that readers and critics of...

The Female Tradition in Southern Literature.
March 22, 1994... The Female Tradition in Southern Literature, edited by Carol S. Manning. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Index and bibliographies. 290 pp. $34.95; Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and...

Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston.
March 22, 1994... The Female Tradition in Southern Literature, edited by Carol S. Manning. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Index and bibliographies. 290 pp. $34.95; Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and...

James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginia.
March 22, 1994... Born in 1879 in the heart of Richmond, one-time capital of the Confederate States of America, James Branch Cabell lived his formative years in a charged ambience. Legends and histories about key figures of the Southern cause were constants in...

The Myth of the Fall and Walker Percy's Last Gentleman.
March 22, 1994... Walker Percy is certainly one of the most important literary figures to come out of the South during the past half century, and his works have been given much critical attention from a variety of perspectives. Most critics have focused on the...

Critical Essays on Peter Taylor.
March 22, 1994... THIS VOLUME OF PETER TAYLOR CRITICISM is an impressive addition to the G. K. Hall series as well as an important contribution to the slowly growing body of commentary on one of America's best short-story writers. Its value is not simply as...

The French Thorn: Rival Explorers in the Spanish Sea, 1682-1762.
March 22, 1994... THIS FASCINATING NARRATIVE OF EUROPEAN misconception about, interests in, and rivalries over the Gulf Coast region in the early eighteenth century again demonstrates Robert Weddles's command of his subject and its historical sources. The second...

Deerskins and Duffels: Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815.
March 22, 1994... MOST NUMEROUS OF THE SOUTHEASTERN INDIAN nations, with a population estimated at 20,000 in 1775 and 25,000 or 26,000 in 1790, the Creek confederacy furnished approximately half the deerskins in the colonial Indian trade of their best customer,...

African Americans in the Early Republic: 1789-1831.
March 22, 1994... THE PERIOD FROM THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT Washington to the famous slave revolt of Nat Turner was one of remarkable change in the United States: slavery gradually ended in the North, there was a halting, then explosive economic expansion in...

The Papers of Henry Laurens, vol 13, March 16, 1778-July 6, 1778.
March 22, 1994... NO FATHER AND SON WERE MORE DEVOTED TO one another or the cause of the American Revolution than were Henry and John Laurens. Despite the many dangers and difficulties that beset the cause during the winter of 1777-78, these two South...

Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order.
March 22, 1994... THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WAS A time of great restlessness and uncertainty in America. During this period men came to believe that with hard work and perhaps a little luck anything was possible. As a result, men scrambled from...

Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Arkansas in the Civil War.
March 22, 1994... THE PROCESS THAT WOULD BECOME MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY first developed in Europe in the 1830s. We have a few fuzzy images from the Mexican War of the late 1840s and a handful from the Crimean War of the mid-1850s. The first conflict to be recorded...

Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Louisiana in the Civil War.
March 22, 1994... THE PROCESS THAT WOULD BECOME MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY first developed in Europe in the 1830s. We have a few fuzzy images from the Mexican War of the late 1840s and a handful from the Crimean War of the mid-1850s. The first conflict to be recorded...

Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War.
March 22, 1994... THE PROCESS THAT WOULD BECOME MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY first developed in Europe in the 1830s. We have a few fuzzy images from the Mexican War of the late 1840s and a handful from the Crimean War of the mid-1850s. The first conflict to be recorded...

Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront.
March 22, 1994... LONG BEFORE APPOMATTOX, THE LOST CAUSE HAD earned its name, in the number of goods civilians found themselves having to do without. Now, forty-one years after its first publication, Mary Elizabeth Massey's Ersatz in the Confederacy returns to...

Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench.
March 22, 1994... MICHAEL B. DAVIS AND HUNTER R. CLARK HAVE written an interesting and informative biography of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall directed toward a general audience. The current work, with its fluid, readable style, reflects the authors'...

This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.
March 22, 1994... FANNIE LOU HAMER SYMBOLIZED THE CIVIL RIGHTS struggle in Mississippi. This exceptional woman expressed the aspirations of black people across the South and epitomized the hope of America. Her remarkable story is told by Kay Mills in This Little...

Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.
March 22, 1994... DANNY LYON'S Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement is a work of photojournalism that is timely for several reasons. First, to date very few civil rights photojournalistic projects have come to light. Second, Lyon's photojournalism...

The Cost of Courage: The Journey of an American Congressman.
March 22, 1994... CARL ELLIOTT AND MICHAEL D'ORSO'S The Cost of Courage: The Journey of an American Congressman recreates the intense climate of the civil rights era and Congressman Elliott's role in it. With biographical and oral history the legislator's life...

Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage.
March 22, 1994... THE IMPACT OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN culture on the United States has been a subject of great scholarly interest and debate in the last twenty years. William D. Piersen's Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage will undoubtedly further,...

Legacy to Power: Senator Russell Long of Louisiana.
March 22, 1994... RUSSELL LONG -- MAJORITY WHIP OF THE U. S. SENATE, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, a lion of Capitol Hill for nearly four decades -- remained ever Huey Long's son. Russell resembled his famous father and mimicked his gestures...

Southern Baptists Observed: Multiple Perspectives on a Changing Denomination.
March 22, 1994... Southern Baptists Observed CONSISTS OF SIXTEEN articles which discuss various aspects of the struggle within the Southern Baptist Convention between the fundamentalists (or conservatives) who in the 1980s sought to gain control over the SBC...