The Mississippi Quarterly articles from March 2004

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from March 2004

Don't fence me in: nature and gender in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's South Moon Under.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... By the time that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's first novel, South Moon Under, was published in March of 1933, the author and her husband, Charles, had been residents of Cross Creek, Florida, for over four years. As she describes in a 1930 letter...

Race and the rural in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek.(Biography)
March 22, 2004... CROSS CREEK IS A MOMENT AND A PLACE: a moment in Southern history before the modern world intrudes and a place that preserves that moment by its isolation. Into this world, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings came in 1928, purchasing, for $9,000, (1) the...

The construction and deconstruction of Masculinity in The Yearling.(Movie Review)
March 22, 2004... A FEW YEARS AGO SOME OF THE MORE ELDERLY members of the international audience tuning in for the Academy Awards must have had a small shock. As the camera panned over a large assembly of former Oscar winners, it stopped for a moment on a rather...

The changing American hero and the "eternal bitch" in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's The Sojourner.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS's most difficult book is The Sojourner (1953). It was difficult for her to write, filling a decade with anguish and false starts, and it was hard for her contemporaries to place and to appreciate. Part of the problem,...

Motive and meaning: the mystery of the Will in Poe's "The Black Cat".(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... EDGAR ALLAN POE's "THE BLACK CAT" presents the reader with a troubled tale of homicide, presumably given "to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events." (1) This baiting language of the...

South of the "border," or Poe's pym: a case study in region, race, and American Literary History.
March 22, 2004... "[T]HE SITUATION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is anomalous," wrote the Boston Brahmin James Russell Lowell in February 1845. He went on to explain why. Not only were domestic letters, as he conceived them, "divided into many systems, each revolving...

Dislocations: retracing the erased in Jayne Anne Phillips's Shelter.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS, COMMENTING ON THE IDEA of "perception" in her second novel, Shelter (1994), claims, "It's what I'm trying to capture in language or put into some physical, lasting form. I've always been much more interested in perception...

The Liberty weathervane points left.(The Futures of American Studies)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... "In a world such as you inhabit, Mr. Stencil, any cluster of phenomena can be a conspiracy. So no doubt your suspicion is correct." --Thomas Pynchon, V. (1) The Futures of American Studies, edited by Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman....

Hunting and the American Imagination.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Hunting and the American Imagination, by Daniel Justin Herman. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. xvi, 356 pp. $29.95 cloth; Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting Narrative, by Jacob F. Rivers III. Columbia: University of South...

Where There Are Mountains: an Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians, by Donald Edward Davis. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xvi, 320 pp. $40.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. NEWLY RELEASED IN PAPERBACK IN 2003, this...

A Southern Woman of Letters: the Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... A Southern Woman of Letters: The Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, edited by Rebecca Grant Sexton. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xxxv, 205 pp. $29.95 cloth. TO MODERN READERS OF SOUTHERN LITERATURE, Eudora...

Racial Politics and Robert Penn Warren's Poetry.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Racial Politics and Robert Penn Warren's Poetry, by Anthony Szczesiul. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xi, 254 pp. $55.00 cloth. WHEN TAKING AN OVERVIEW OF THE BROAD and dramatic arcs of Robert Penn Warren's career as a...

Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith, by Paula Gallant Eckard. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xv, 227 pp. $39.95. COUNTERING A LONG TRADITION OF Southern fiction that highlighted...

William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism, edited by Linda Wagner-Martin. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. 421 pp. $29.95. THE ESSAYS APPEARING UNDER THIS TITLE do not represent the shape of Faulkner criticism since...

An Outdoor Guide to Bartram's Travels.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... An Outdoor Guide to Bartram's Travels, by Charles D. Spornick, Alan R. Cattier, and Robert J. Greene. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xxii, 432 pp. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. IT IS FITTING THAT DURING THE FIRST YEAR of the...

An Early and Strong Sympathy: the Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... An Early and Strong Sympathy: The Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms, edited by John Caldwell Guilds and Charles Hudson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. li, 604 pp. $39.95 cloth. WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS WAS THE...

Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers, by Sarah Gleeson-White. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. 168 pp. $35.00. SARAH GLEESON-WHITE's Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson...