UNIVERSITY PRESS of MISSISSIPPI The Land of Rowan oak, page 1 Books for Fall–Winter 2016–2017 CONTENTS 12 Ain’t There No More Brasseaux / Davis 9 Alexander Payne: Interviews Levinson 28 American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment Black 10 Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest Wilkie University Press of Mississippi 31 The Black Carib Wars Taylor Brian De Palma’s Split-Screen 3825 Ridgewood Road 7 Keesey Jackson, MS 39211-6492 18 The British Superhero Murray www.upress.state.ms.us 15 Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia Cremins E-mail: [email protected] 14 Chris Ware: Conversations Braithwaite 32 Clockwork Rhetoric Brummett Administrative/Editorial/Marketing/ 19 The Comic Book Film Adaptation Burke Production: (601) 432-6205 30 Consuming Identity Stokes / Atkins-Sayre Orders: (800) 737-7788 or 20 Conversations with Maurice Sendak Kunze (601) 432-6205 22 Conversations with Michael Chabon Costello Customer Service: (601) 432-6704 20 Conversations with Robert Stone Heath Fax: (601) 432-6217 21 Conversations with Ron Rash Claxton / Newcomb 21 Conversations with Stanley Kunitz Ljungquist Director: Leila W. 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Patterson and the White South’s Dilemma Luckett Editorial Associate: Katie Keene 1 The Land of Rowan Oak Croom Editorial Assistant: Lisa McMurtray 26 The Last Lawyer Temple Senior Project Editor: 11 Lucky Dogs Strahan Shane Gong Stewart 6 Madeline Kahn Madison Project Editor: Valerie Jones 8 Martin Scorsese: Interviews, Revised and Updated Ribera Associate Project Editor: 18 Medievalist Comics and the American Century Bishop Kristi Ezernack 28 Minority Relations Robinson / Chang Assistant Director / Marketing Director: 25 Mississippi: The Long, Hot Summer McCord Steve Yates 27 The Mississippi Secession Convention Smith Data Services and Course Adoptions 33 More than Cricket and Football Rosen / Smith Manager: Kathy Burgess 35 Musical Life in Guyana Cambridge Publicity and Advertising Manager: 34 The Original Blues Abbott / Seroff Clint Kimberling 2 Outsider Art Wojcik Electronic and Direct-to-Consumer 16 Panel to the Screen Morton Marketing Specialist: Kristin Kirkpatrick 8 Paul Verhoeven: Interviews Barton-Fumo Pelican Road Marketing Assistant: 11 Bahr Courtney McCreary 15 Peter Bagge: Conversations Worcester Peter Bogdanovich: Interviews Assistant Director / Art Director: 9 Tonguette John Langston 14 Peter Kuper: Conversations Worcester Assistant Production Manager / Designer / 36 The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo Dewulf Electronic Projects Manager: Todd Lape 30 The Port Royal Experiment Dougherty Book Designer: Pete Halverson 29 Prison Power Corrigan 17 Reading Lessons in Seeing Chaney The paper in the books published by the 29 Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism Zeigler University Press of Mississippi meets the 23 Rough South, Rural South Cash / Perry guidelines for permanence and durability of 5 She Could Be Chaplin! Slide the Committee on Production Guidelines 37 Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Daggett for Book Longevity of the Council on Library 7 Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical McLaughlin Resources. 19 Superheroes on World Screens Denison / Mizsei-Ward Susan Sontag Postmaster: University Press of 6 Rollyson / Paddock Mississippi. Issue date: June 2016. Two 10 Teacher Copperman times annually (January, June), plus 13 Teche Bernard supplements. Located at: University Press of 17 The 10 Cent War Goodnow / Kimble Mississippi, 3825 Ridgewood Road, Jackson, 4 A Thousand Cuts Bartok / Joseph MS 39211-6492. Promotional publications 25 To Write in the Light of Freedom Sturkey / Hale of the University Press of Mississippi are Trouble in Goshen distributed free of charge to customers and 27 Smith prospective customers: Issue number: 2 32 War Noir Trott 5 Winnie Lightner Lightner Credits: (front) Rowan Oak in snow, 16 The Woman Fantastic in Contemporary American Media Culture Helford / Carroll / photograph by Ed Croom; (back) Lonnie Gray / Howard Holley with his sandstone sculptures in 35 Yodeling and Meaning in American Music Wise his yard, Birmingham, Alabama, c. 1988, 23 Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux Soileau photograph: Ted Degener UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI Call: 1.800.737.7788 toll-free The Land of Rowan Oak PHOTOGRAPHY LITERATURE BOTANY An Exploration of Faulkner’s Natural World Ed Croom Afterword by Donald M. Kartiganer he plants and landscape at Rowan Oak are the “little postage stamp of soil” that William Faulkner owned, walked, and tended for over thirty years during the writing of many of his short Tstories and novels. Faulkner saw and smelled the earth and listened to sounds from the cultivated grounds and the surrounding woods. This is the place that offered him refuge for writing and provided him food from its garden, fruit and nut trees, and pasture for his horses and a milk cow. Rowan Oak boasts a diverse landscape, encompassing an aristocratic eastern redcedar–lined AN EXTRAORDINARY drive and walk as well as hardy ornamental shrubs, trees, PHOTOGRAPHIC pastures, and a hardwood forest with virgin timber. DOCUMENTARY OF THE More than fifty years after Faulkner’s death, Rowan WILD AND CULTIVATED Oak remains a sanctuary and a place of mystery and PLANTS AND LANDSCAPE OF beauty nestled in the midst of Oxford, Mississippi. The FAULKNER’S INSPIRATIONAL photographs in The Land of Rowan Oak are botanist Ed Croom’s exploration and documentation of the changes WRITING SANCTUARY in the plants and landscape over more than a decade. Croom encountered early morning mists, the summer heat and haze, and even rare snowfalls in his near-daily walks on the grounds. His photographs record a decaying fence line, trees and plants that have since disappeared, and the newly restored sunken garden. This book honors the land Faulkner loved. While Faulkner’s novels have left an indelible legacy in southern and American letters, the landscape of his beloved home also serves as a record of the botanical history of this most storied corner of the American literary South. OCTOBER, 160 pages (approx.), 11 x 11 ED CROOM, Oxford, Mississippi, is president of Croomia Botanical Scientific inches, 130 color illustrations, afterword, and Regulatory Consulting, and he previously was a full-time faculty member at the bibliography, index Cloth $35.00T 978-1-4968-0901-8 University of Mississippi. His work has appeared in the books Herbal and Magical Medicine; Ebook available Taxol: Science and Application; and Encyclopedia of Dietary Supplements as well as other plant science and chemical journals. His photography has been exhibited at the University of Mississippi and appeared in USA Today, the Scientist, and the Saturday Evening Post. Credit: Photographs by Ed Croom Order online at www.upress.state.ms.us UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI 1 FOLK ART TRAUMA STUDIES Outsider Art Visionary Worlds and Trauma Daniel Wojcik utsider art has exploded onto the international art scene, gaining widespread attention for its startling originality and visual power. As an expression of raw creativity, outsider art remains associated with self-taught visionaries, psychiatric patients, trance mediums, eccentric OCTOBER, 304 pages (approx.), O 9 x 12 inches, 174 color illustrations, outcasts, and unschooled artistic geniuses who create things bibliography, index outside of mainstream artistic trends and styles. Outsider Art: Printed Casebinding $45.00S Visionary Worlds and Trauma provides a comprehensive guide 978-1-4968-0806-6 through the contested terrain of outsider art and the related Ebook available domains of art brut, visionary art, “art of the insane,” and folk art. The book examines the history and primary issues of Credit, clockwise from left: Pierrot the field as well as explores the intersection between culture Barra with his altars, photograph by and individual creativity that is at the very heart of outsider art Donald Cosentino; Tyree Guyton, AN UNPARALLELED definitions and debates. 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