The Mississippi Quarterly articles from September 1996

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from September 1996

Say it again, Sam[bo]: race and speech in Huckleberry Finn and Casablanca.(Critical essay)(Character overview)
September 22, 1996... Writing at a time when the blackfaced minstrel was still popular, and shortly after a war which left even the abolitionists weary of those problems associated with the Negro, Twain fitted Jim into the outlines of the minstrel tradition, and it...

The Southern Agrarians and European agrarianism.
September 22, 1996... HISTORIANS AND LITERARY CRITICS HAVE USUALLY DEALT WITH the symposium I'll Take My Stand and the later essays of the Nashville Agrarians in a Southern context. Whether they have been considered as representatives of the Southern Renaissance, as...

Introduction: history and the African-American Voice.
September 22, 1996... THE IDEA FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE USE of history in African-American literature grew out of an essay submitted to the Quarterly and published here in a revised version under the title "Cries of Outrage." That essay examines how three modern...

To cheer the weary traveler: Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and history.(Critical essay)
September 22, 1996... "What is really infinite is the past. The future always appears to me to be finite; but the past is infinite--and in that sense there's so much back there to mine from--and part of black culture has to do with this intimacy between the self and...

Cries of outrage: three novelists' use of history.(Critical essay)
September 22, 1996... IN THE OCTOBER 1992 ISSUE OF American Heritage, William Styron looked back twenty-five years to the weeks immediately following the publication of his historical novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, based on an 1831 slave revolt in Virginia,...

"Strange, history. Complicated, too": Ishmael Reed's use of African-American history in Flight to Canada.
September 22, 1996... ISHMAEL REED MAINTAINS A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH African-American experience, clearly visible in his 1976 novel, Flight to Canada. Relying upon the conventions of antebellum slave narratives for its structure and style, Flight to Canada...

"So you want a history, do you?": epistemologies and The Chaneysville Incident.(Critical essay)
September 22, 1996... DAVID BRADLEY'S 1981 NOVEL THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT JOINS the investigation of American history central to the American literary context since Emerson's "The American Scholar." The Chaneysville Incident in particular addresses the combination...

"The ring of singing metal on wood": Zora Neale Hurston's artistry in "The Gilded Six-Bits".(Critical essay)
September 22, 1996... "THE GILDED SIX-BITS," FIRST PUBLISHED IN Story, AUGUST 1933, is Zora Neale Hurston's last short story before she became a novelist with the publication of Jonah's Gourd Vine in 1934. In this tale of love, marriage, value conflict, and new...

Slavery, race, and the figure of the tragic mulatta, or, the ghost of Southern history in the writing of African-American women.(Critical essay)
September 22, 1996... "I am afraid that I am destined to die at my post. I have no special friends in the North, and no home but this in the South. I am homeless and alone." (1) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted (1892). I loved...

Southern conservative universalism.(The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War)(The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism)(Book review)
September 22, 1996... The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism, by Eugene D. Genovese. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994. 138 pp. $22.50; The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War,...

Mark Twain's Letters, 1870-1871, vol. 4.(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Mark Twain's Letters: Volume 4: 1870-1871, edited by Victor Fischer and Michael B. Frank, with associate editor Lin Salamo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xxxiii, 792 pp. $55.00. THESE DAYS THE SAVVY CONSUMER FIRST OF ALL...

Welty: reviews and criticism.(Eudora Welty. A Writer's Eye: Collected Book )(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Eudora Welty. A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews, edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995. Index. 280 pp. $27.50; Gail L. Mortimer. Daughter of the Swan: Love and Knowledge in Eudora Welty's Fiction....

On the trail of history in McCarthy's Blood Meridian.(Notes on Blood Meridian)(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Notes on Blood Meridian, by John Sepich, edited by Rick Wallach. Louisville: Bellarmine College Press, 1993. 191 pp. $12.50 paper. LITTLE MORE THAN A DECADE AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF Cormac McCarthy's challenging historical and philosophical...

Continuity, coherence, completion.(Continuity: The Last Essays of Austin Warren)(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Continuity: The Last Essays of Austin Warren, introduction by, edited by George A Panichas. Mercer University Press, 1996. 192 pp. $32. I CAN THINK OF NO FINER INTRODUCTION TO THESE ESSAYS--or to Austin Warren's life work, for that...

Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character.(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character, by Karla EC. Holloway. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995. xii, 225 pp. $24.95. PROFESSOR KARLA HOLLOWAY OF DUKE UNIVERSITY HAS written a powerful, disturbing...

Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century, by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. 434 pp. $29.95. GWENDOLYN...

Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia.(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, by Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1995. vii, 447 pp. Index. $18.95 paper. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR REMAINS A FRUITFUL FIELD OF...

Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915.(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915, by Edward A. Miller, Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. xi, 285 pp. $29. EDWARD A. MILLER JR.'s GULLAH STATESMAN...

Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920.(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920, by Henry M. McKiven, Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiii, 223 pp. $14.95 paper. IN THIS WORK HENRY M. McKIVEN, JR., EXPLORES THE...

Martin Luther King, Jr.(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Martin Luther King, Jr., by Adam Fairclough. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1995. 163 pp. $9.95 paper. ANOTHER BIOGRAPHY OF MArtIN LUTHER KING IS NOT likely high on anyone's wish list. Early studies by David L. Lewis and...

Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement.(Book review)
September 22, 1996... Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement, edited by W. Marvin Dulaney and Kathleen Underwood. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1993. 95 pp. $22.50. THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS, AS HAVE OTHER highly significant moments...

The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservativism.
September 22, 1996... By Eugene D. Genovese. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994. 138 pp. $22.50. Southern conservative thought may save the soul of the Union and the world as well. So says Eugene D. Genovese in two of the best and most...

The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War.
September 22, 1996... By Eugene D. Genovese. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1995. 320 pp. $29.95. Southern conservative thought may save the soul of the Union and the world as well. So says Eugene D. Genovese in two of the best and most...

Mark Twain's Letters, vol. 4, 1870-1871.
September 22, 1996... Edited by Victor Fischer and Michael B. Frank, with associate editor Lin Salamo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xxxiii, 792 pp. $55.00. These days the savvy consumer first of all checks out the specified contents of a package:...

A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews.
September 22, 1996... Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995. Index. 280 pp. $27.50; Gail L. Mortimer. When The Eye of the Story was published in 1978 featuring Eudora Welty's essays on the art of fiction, book reviews, and...

Daughter of the Swan: Love and Knowledge in Eudora Welty's Fiction.
September 22, 1996... Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. Index and bibliography. $40.00. When The Eye of the Story was published in 1978 featuring Eudora Welty's essays on the art of fiction, book reviews, and miscellaneous prose, it became an invaluable...

Notes on Blood Meridian.
September 22, 1996... By John Sepich, edited by Rick Wallach. Louisville: Bellarmine College Press, 1993. 191 pp. $12.50 paper. Little more than a decade after the publication of Cormac McCarthy's challenging historical and philosophical novel Blood Meridian, we...

Continuity: The Last Essays of Austin Warren.
September 22, 1996... Edited by George A Panichas. Mercer University Press, 1996. 192 pp. $32. I can think of no finer introduction to these essays--or to Austin Warren's life work, for that matter--than that given here by George A. Panichas, formerly Professor of...

Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Character.
September 22, 1996... by Karla F.C. Holloway. New Brunswick, NJ.: Rutgers University Press, 1995. xii, 225 pp. $24.95. Professor Karla Holloway of Duke University has written a powerful, disturbing collection of essays about the disturbing issue of racism in...

Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century.
September 22, 1996... by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. 434 pp. $29.95. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's Africans in Colonial Louisiana is a big book, both literally and figuratively. It runs to...

Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia.
September 22, 1996... by Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1995. vii, 447 pp. Index. $18.95 paper. The American Civil War Remains a fruitful field of scholarly endeavor. Yet, even as scholars research and re-assess every...

Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915.
September 22, 1996... by Edward A. Miller, Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. xi, 285 pp. $29. Edward A. Miller Jr.'s Gullah Stateman is an extremely well documented and informative biography of Robert Smalls,...

Iron and Steel: Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920.
September 22, 1996... by Henry M. McKiven, Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiii, 223 pp. $14.95 paper. In this work Henry M. McKiven, Jr., explores the complex interplay of race and class in the formative years of Birmingham, Alabama, the...

Martin Luther King, Jr.
September 22, 1996... by Adam Fairclough. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1995. 163 pp. $9.95 paper. Another biography of Martin Luther King is not likely high on anyone's wish list. Early studies by David L. Lewis and Stephen B. Oates have been...

Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement.
September 22, 1996... edited by W. Marvin Dulaney and Kathleen Underwood. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1993. 95 pp. $22.50. The Civil Rights Movement has, as have other highly significant moments in American history, presented scholars,...

Cries of outrage: three novelists' use of history.
September 22, 1996... In the October 1992 issue of American Heritage, William Styron looked back twenty-five years to the weeks immediately following the publication of his historical novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, based on an 1831 slave revolt in Virginia,...

"Strange, history. Complicated, too": Ishmael Reed's use of African-American history in 'Flight to Canada.'
September 22, 1996... Ishmael Reed maintains a complicated relationship with African-American experience, clearly visible in his 1976 novel, Might to Canada Relying upon the conventions of antebellum slave narratives for its structure and style, Flight to Canada...

"So you want a history, do you?": epistemologies and 'The Chaneysville Incident.'
September 22, 1996... David Bradley's 1981 novel The Chaneysville Incident joins the investigation of American history central to the American literary context since Emerson's "The American Scholar." The Chaneysville Incident in particular addresses the combination of...