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The Mississippi Quarterly articles from March 2002
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 March 2002
A measured freedom: national unity and racial containment in Winslow Homer's The Cotton Pickers, 1876.
March 22, 2002... AFTER TRAVELING TO VIRGINIA DURING THE Civil War as a field illustrator for the New York journal Harper's Weekly, Winslow Homer returned to this area toward the end of the Reconstruction period to paint primarily around Richmond and Petersburg...
Sentimentalism and honor in the early American republic: revisiting the Kentucky tragedy.(influence of Southern sentimentalism and honor on retellings of the murder of Colonel Solomon Sharp in Southern literature)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... IN THE GROWING LITERATURE ON SOUTHERN HONOR, one of the thornier issues that remains relatively neglected has to do with relationships between Southern ideas and larger social concerns in antebellum America. Certainly, honor took a distinctive...
"With a special emphasis": the dynamics of (re)claiming a queer southern renaissance.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... IN HER GROUNDBREAKING EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE CLOSET, queer theorist Eve Sedgwick clarifies the critical task of scrutinizing the relation of gay/lesbian studies to the current debates about the literary canon, and, although she ultimately deems...
Queer be dragons: homosocial identity and homoerotic poetics in Robert Penn Warren's Brother To Dragons.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... ROBERT PENN WARREN, PULITZER PRIZE WINNER, poetic literary lion, has a dirty little secret. Victor Strandberg notes, "Among the diverse characters depicted--biblical, classical, legendary, or historical; and those drawn from personal...
Vision and division in "Kin" by Eudora Welty. (1).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Whatever our place, it has been visited by a stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.
Eudora Welty (2)
"TELL ALL THE TRUTH BUT TELL SLANT" (3): these words of Emily Dickinson...
Learning to be White: Money, Race, and God in America.(Also 'Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Marrison')(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... by Thandeka. New York: Continuum, 1999. 180 pp. $22.95 hardback, $16.95 paper; Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, by Patricia McKee. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1999. 256 pp. $54.95 cloth,...
The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1890s.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... by Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xix, 412 pp. $55.00 Cloth. $19.95 Paper.
A FAMILIAR NAME TO MOST READERS OF THE Mississippi Quarterly, Bertram Wyatt-Brown is known as one of the preeminent...
Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God": a Casebook.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... edited by Cheryl Wall. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. x, 191 pp. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.
THIS COLLECTION OF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED essays concerning Zora Neale Hurston's most widely read and widely taught novel will be useful...
Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... by Virginia Whatley Smith. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. xv, 237 pp. $40.00 cloth.
IN RECENT YEARS, THE POST-1945 WORK of Richard Wright has received new attention. Where Wright's late work was once thought to represent a...
Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... edited by Werner Sollors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii, 546 pp. Bibliography, index. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
WERNER SOLLORS HAS DONE A GREAT SERVICE to scholars and students of history, law, and literature by bringing...
A Fire-Eater Remembers: the Confederate Memoirs of Robert Barnwell Rhett.('The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens,' 'Apostles of Disunion; Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War' and 'Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860')(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... edited by William C. Davis. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. 152 pp. $24.45; The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens, by William C. Davis. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 2001....
Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... edited by Glenn Feldman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. x, 376 pp. $54.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.
IT WAS, NO DOUBT, AWKWARD TO FASHION this book Glenn Feldman's introduction, at least, displays no little unease. He wished to...