The Mississippi Quarterly articles from September 1997

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from September 1997

Introduction.
September 22, 1997... WHATEVER IT MAY BE OR BECOME, THE MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY is no ephemeral magazine. It will be fifty years old in 1998, and to celebrate that milestone, the general editor, Robert L. Phillips, Jr., has commissioned a series of special numbers...

Dedication: to Ruth Vande Kieft.
September 22, 1997... RUTH MARGUERITE VANDE KIEFT WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 12, 1925, the daughter of Dutch Calvinists, her father a pastor. Toward the end of her career she bought a home in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she hoped to enjoy retirement with her niece...

Place and Time: The Southern Writer's Inheritance *.
September 22, 1997... As THIS WAS BEING WRITTEN, THE NEW BOOK BY WILLIAM FAULKNER is about to come out in America--a long novel entitled A Fable. One never knows ahead what a new work by Mr. Faulkner will be like--that is one of the joys of living contemporaneously...

Welty, Hawthorne, and Poe: men of the crowd and the landscape of alienation *.(Eudora Welty, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe)(Critical essay)
September 22, 1997... IN ITS OWN WAY, "OLD MR. MARBLEHALL" IS AS MUCH A TOUR-DE-FORCE as William Faulkner's "Carcassonne"--richly poetical, densely imaged; cooler and more detached, but just as calmly deliberate, as totally confident in its power to shake and move...

The 25th Annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference "Faulkner & America".(Brief article)
September 22, 1997... The University of Mississippi: July 26-July 31, 1998 Speakers: James Carothers, University of Kansas Richard Godden, University of Keele Kathryn Burgess McKee, University of Mississippi Peter Nicolaisen, Paedagogische...

Making a spectacle: Welty, Faulkner, and Southern Gothic *.(Eudora Welty, William Faulkner)
September 22, 1997... BY THE TIME EUDORA WELTY PUBLISHED A Curtain of Green and Other Stories in 1941, the term "Southern Gothic" had become something very like a synonym--or a cliche for modern Southern literature. Louise Bogan even rifled her review of Welty's...

History and imagination: writing "The Winds".(Critical essay)
September 22, 1997... YOU WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THE WRITING OF EUDORA WELTY to someone who was curious about the interconnections of historical event and fictional form. The entirety of Welty's work is not so much an effective witness that something has happened in...

Reading the cakes: Delta Wedding and the texts of Southern women's culture.(novel)(Critical essay)
September 22, 1997... A RECENT U.S. BESTSELLER WAS A COOKBOOK TITLED The Cake Bible. A hefty $25 tome bound in white imitation leather and stamped in ecclesiastical gold, it offers exemplary recipes, scientific method and glossy photographs of cakes for every...

The political thought of Eudora Welty.(Essay)
September 22, 1997... THROUGHOUT THE NEARLY SIXTY YEARS OF EUDORA WELTY'S LITERARY CAREER it has been commonplace for reviewers and critics to think and write of her fiction as apolitical or non-political. Diana Trilling's reviews of The Wide Net (1943) and Delta...

"It's still a free country": constructing race, identity, and history in Eudora Welty's "Where Is the Voice Coming From?".(Critical essay)
September 22, 1997... IN YEARNING: RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURAL POLITICS, bell hooks calls for "the production of a discourse on race that interrogates whiteness." "It would just be so interesting," continues hooks, "for all those white folks who are giving blacks...

Place and the displaced in Eudora Welty's The Bride of the Innisfallen.(Critical essay)
September 22, 1997... EUDORA WELTY' S SHORT STORY COLLECTION THE BRIDE OF THE INNISFALLEN disoriented critics when it was published in 1955. More than half of the stories in this volume are set outside Welty's native Mississippi, and the "sense of place" that is...

Welty's anti-ode to nightingales: Gabriella's Southern passage.(Eudora Welty)(Essay)
September 22, 1997... THOUGH WELTY'S WORK IS IN CRITICAL HIGH COTTON, her 1955 collection The Bride of the Innisfallen has not inspired the same degree or kind of critical interest her earlier collections have, or even kept up with the outpouring unleashed by her...

On optimists' sons and daughters: Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter and Peter Taylor's A Summons to Memphis.(Critical essay)
September 22, 1997... --for Seetha Srinivasan and Hunter Cole READING THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER (1972) and A Summons to Memphis (1986) together makes good sense because not only do these two novels have much in common but so do their authors. Both works focus on...

Welty studies: 1987-1997.(Eudora Welty)(Essay)
September 22, 1997... BY FAR THE MOST STRIKING DEVELOPMENT IN WELTY STUDIES over the past ten years has been the way feminist critics have seized on the possibilities for rcading Welty in tcrms of those feminist revisions of patriarchal discourse suggcstcd by...

Dedication: to Ruth Vande Kieft.(Special Issue: Eudora Welty)
September 22, 1997... Ruth Marguerite Vande Kieft was born September 12, 1925, the daughter of Dutch Calvinists, her father a pastor. Toward the end of her career she bought a home in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she hoped to enjoy retirement with her niece...

Place and time: the Southern writer's inheritance.(Special Issue: Eudora Welty)
September 22, 1997... As this was being written, the new book by William Faulkner is about to come out in America--a long novel entitled A Fable. One never knows ahead what a new work by Mr. Faulkner will be like--that is one of the joys of living contemporaneously...

Welty, Hawthorne, and Poe: men of the crowd and the landscape of alienation.(Special Issue: Eudora Welty)
September 22, 1997... In its own way, "Old Mr. Marblehall" is as much a tour-de-force as William Faulkner's "Carcassonne"--richly poetical, densely imaged; cooler and more detached, but just as calmly deliberate, as totally confident in its power to shake and move and...

Making a spectacle: Welty, Faulkner, and Southern gothic.(Special Issue: Eudora Welty)
September 22, 1997... By the time Eudora Welty published A Curtain of Green and Other Stories in 1941, the term "Southern Gothic" had become something very like a synonym--or a cliche--for modern Southern literature. Louise Bogan even titled her review of Welty's...

History and imagination: writing "the winds."(Special Issue: Eudora Welty)
September 22, 1997... You would not recommend the writing of Eudora Welty to someone who was curious about the interconnections of historical event and fictional form. The entirety of Welty's work is not so much an effective witness that something has happened in the...

Reading the cakes: 'Delta Wedding' and the texts of Southern women's culture.(Special Issue: Eudora Welty)
September 22, 1997... A recent U.S. bestseller was a cookbook titled The Cake Bible. A hefty $25 tome bound in white imitation leather and stamped in ecclesiastical gold, it offers exemplary recipes, scientific method and glossy photographs of cakes for every...

The political thought of Eudora Welty.(Special Issue: Eudora Welty)
September 22, 1997... Throughout the nearly sixty years of Eudora Welty's literary career it has been commonplace for reviewers and critics to think and write of her fiction as apolitical or non-political. Diana Trilling's reviews of The Wide Net (1943) and Delta...

"It's still a free country": constructing race, identity, and history in Eudora Welty's "Where Is the Voice Coming From?"(Special Issue: Eudora Welty)
September 22, 1997... In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, bell hooks calls for "the production of a discourse on race that interrogates whiteness." "It would just be so interesting," continues hooks, "for all those white folks who are giving blacks their...

Place and the displaced in Eudora Welty's "The Bride of Innisfallen."
September 22, 1997... Eudora Welty's short story collection Bride of the Innisfallen disoriented critics when it was published in 1955. More than half of the stories in this volume are set outside Welty's native Mississippi, and the "sense of place" that is missing...

Welty's anti-ode to nightingales: Gabriella's southern passage.(Special Issue: Eudora Welty)
September 22, 1997... Though Welty's work is in critical high cotton, her 1955 collection The Bride of the Innisfallen has not inspired the same degree or kind of critical interest her earlier collections have, or even kept up with the outpouring unleashed by her...

On optimists' sons and daughters: Eudora Welty's 'The Optimist's Daughter' and Peter Taylor's 'A Summons to Memphis.'(Special Issue: Eudora Welty)
September 22, 1997... Reading The Optimist's Daughter (1972) and A Summons to Memphis (1986) together makes good sense because not only do these two novels have much in common but so do their authors. Both works focus on the crisis caused in a Southern family's...