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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

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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. Heidelberg Project, Detroit, EXPLORATION OF THE Daniel Wojcik’s interdisciplinary study challenges prevailing photograph by Ted Degener; Emery Blagdon, Healing Machine (untitled POWER OF ART AND THE assumptions about the idiosyncratic status of outsider artists. individual component), John Michael IMPULSE OF CREATION This wide-ranging investigation of the art and lives of those Kohler Arts Center Collection labeled outsiders focuses on the ways that personal tragedies and suffering have inspired the art-making process. In some cases, trauma has triggered a creative transformation that has helped artists confront otherwise overwhelming life events. Additionally, Wojcik’s study illustrates how vernacular traditions, religious worldviews, ethnic heritage, and popular culture have influenced such art. With its detailed consideration of personal motivations, cultural milieu, and the potentially therapeutic aspects of art making, this volume provides a deeper understanding of the artistic impulse and human creativity.

DANIEL WOJCIK is professor of English and folklore studies at the University of Oregon. His books include Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art (published by University Press of Mississippi) and The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America.

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Expressions of Place The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape

John R. Kemp

xpressions of Place embarks on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Louisiana via the talents of thirty-seven artists located all around the state. Many are acclaimed professionals whose paintings are Eincluded in major private and public collections regionally and nationally. Others have found their followings closer to home. All, however, strive to express impressions of the land with artistic styles that range from traditional to the symbolic and almost totally abstract. Such a variety of interpretation becomes possible in a landscape that changes from dark cypress-shrouded bayous, trembling earth, grassy CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS prairies, the gritty streets of inner city New Orleans to vast REVEALING THE STATE’S wind-swept coastal marshes and the piney hills of north and URBAN LANDSCAPES, central Louisiana. SOUTHWESTERN SWAMPS, Rather than stand as an encyclopedia, catalog, or CENTRAL PRAIRIES, VERDANT history of the visual arts in Louisiana, Kemp’s book is FORESTS, AND NORTHERN instead a celebration of the state’s evocative landscape in the work of accomplished contemporary artists. It NOVEMBER, 128 pages (approx.), FIELDS includes an introductory essay, which places these creators 10 x 10 inches, 207 color illustrations and their works in historical context. Expressions of Place Cloth $40.00T 978-1-4968-0825-7 provides readers with individual essays and biographical sketches in which the artists, in their Ebook available own words, give insight as to what they paint, how they paint, where they paint, and why they are drawn to the Louisiana landscape. Particularly inspiring, the artists discuss their Credit, clockwise from right: interpretations of that landscape directly with the viewing audience. Thunderheads, Francis X. Pavy, Expressions of Place remains as much about the landscape of the artists’ imaginations as private collection; Queen Bess Island it is about the land itself. With each painting, they have created visual poetry of a land and (also known as Pelican Island) after the 2010 BP oil spill, Jacqueline environment that has become a defining part of their lives. Bishop, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans; Forest Curtain,Bill Iles JOHN R. KEMP, Diamondhead, Mississippi, writes about southern artists for numerous regional, national, and international magazines and covers the New Orleans art scene for the New Orleans public television show Steppin’ Out. The New Orleans native and former deputy director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has written and contributed to more than a dozen books about Louisiana artists and history, including A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana, available from University Press of Mississippi.

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A Thousand Cuts Dan Duryea The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors Heel with a Heart and Dealers Who Saved the Movies Mike Peros Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph an Duryea (1907–1968) made a vivid impression Thousand Cuts is a candid on moviegoers with his exploration of one of first major screen appearance as the America’s strangest and conniving Leo Hubbard in 1941’s most quickly vanishing subcultures. D classic melodrama The Little Foxes. It is about the death of physical A His subsequent film and television film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and career would span from 1941 until sometimes obsessive group of film- his death. Duryea remains best mad collectors who made movies known for the nasty, scheming and their projection a private villains he portrayed in such noir religion in the time before DVDs masterpieces as Scarlet Street, Criss and Blu-rays. Cross, and The Woman in the Window. The book includes the stories In each of these, he wielded a blend of film historian/critic Leonard THE BIOGRAPHY OF of menace, sleaze, confidence, and surface charm. This winning Maltin, TCM host Robert Osborne A DEVOTED FAMILY THE COLORFUL, discussing Rock Hudson’s secret combination led him to stardom COMPULSIVE, 1970s film vault, RoboCop producer MAN BEST KNOWN and garnered him the adoration SECRETIVE HISTORY Jon Davison dropping acid and FOR HIS ROLES AS of female fans, even though Duryea’s onscreen brutality so often screening King Kong with Jefferson ABUSIVE VILLAINS OF FAMOUS AND Airplane at the Fillmore East, targeted female characters. Yet INFAMOUS FILM and Academy Award–winning this biography’s close examination FIENDS film historian Kevin Brownlow of Duryea’s oeuvre finds him excelling in various roles in recounting his decades-long quest many genres—war films, westerns, crime dramas, and even the to restore the 1927 Napoleon. Other occasional comedy. lesser-known but equally fascinating subjects include one- Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart is a full-scale, comprehensive legged former Broadway dancer Tony Turano, who lives in a biography that examines the tension between Duryea’s villainous Norma Desmond–like world of decaying movie memories, and screen image and his Samaritan personal life. At home, he notorious film pirate Al Beardsley, one of the men responsible proved one of Hollywood’s most honorable and decent men. for putting O. J. Simpson behind bars. Duryea remained married to the former Helen Bryan from Authors Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph examine one of 1931 until her death in 1967. A dedicated family man, he and the least-known episodes in modern legal history: the FBI’s Helen took an active role in raising their children and in the and Justice Department’s campaign to harass, intimidate, and community. arrest film dealers and collectors in the early 1970s. Many of In his career, Duryea knew villainous roles were what those persecuted were gay men. Victims included Planet of the the public wanted—there would be a public backlash if fans Apes star Roddy McDowall, who was arrested in 1974 for film read an article depicting what a decent guy he was. Frustrated collecting and forced to name names of fellow collectors, that he couldn’t completely shake his screen image and public including Rock Hudson and Mel Tormé. persona, he wrestled with this restriction throughout his A Thousand Cuts explores the obsessions of the colorful career. Producers and the public did not care to follow any new individuals who created their own screening rooms, spent vast directions he hoped to pursue. This book, written with Duryea’s sums, negotiated underground networks, and even risked legal surviving son Richard’s cooperation, fully explores the life and jeopardy to pursue their passion for real, physical film. legacy of a Hollywood icon ready for rediscovery. DENNIS BARTOK, Burbank, California, is a filmmaker and screenwriter, and currently head of distribution for MIKE PEROS, New York, New York, teaches English at Bishop art-house distributor Cinelicious Pics. He was formerly Loughlin High School, including courses on mystery and head of programming for the American Cinematheque’s horror, as well as literature and film. He also reviews films for Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. JEFF JOSEPH, Littlerock, NoHoartsdistrict.com. California, is a motion picture archivist and formerly one of the best-known film dealers in the United States. Jeff and OCTOBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 63 b&w illustrations, his wife Lauren were the owners of SabuCat Productions. He filmography, bibliography, index is currently working with the UCLA Film and TV Archive in Cloth $35.00T 978-1-62846-232-6 restoring the Hal Roach/Laurel and Hardy library. Ebook available Hollywood Legends Series

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Winnie Lightner She Could Be Chaplin! Tomboy of the Talkies The Comedic Brilliance of Alice Howell

David L. Lightner Anthony Slide Foreword by George Stevens Jr. innie Lightner (1899– 1971) stood out as the first lice Howell (1886–1961) is great female comedian slowly gaining recognition of the talkies. Blessed with a superb and regard as arguably singingW voice and a gift for making the most important slapstick wisecracks and rubber faces, she Acomedienne of the silent era. This rose to stardom in vaudeville and new study, the first book-length on Broadway. Then, at the dawn of appreciation, identifies her place in the sound era, she became the first the comedy hierarchy alongside the person in motion picture history to best-known of silent comediennes, have her spoken words, the lyrics to Mabel Normand. Like Normand, a song, censored. Howell learned her craft with Mack In Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of Sennett and Charlie Chaplin. the Talkies, David L. Lightner shows Beginning her screen career in THE BIOGRAPHY OF how Winnie Lightner’s hilarious 1914, Howell quickly developed performance in the 1929 musical a distinctive style and eccentric THE SPUNKY “SONG THE FIRST comedy Gold Diggers of Broadway attire and mannerisms, successfully BOOK-LENGTH A MINUTE GIRL,” THE made her an overnight sensation. hiding her good looks, and was FIRST ACTRESS TO She went on to star in seven other APPRECIATION OF THE soon identified as the “Female Warner Bros. features. In the best HAVE HER SPOKEN MOST IMPORTANT Charlie Chaplin.” of them, she was the comic epitome COMEDIENNE OF THE Howell became a star of WORDS CENSORED of a strident feminist, dominating comedy shorts in 1915 and men and gleefully spurning SILENT ERA continued her career through conventional gender norms and 1928 and the advent of sound moral values. So tough was she, the studio billed her as “the in film. While she is today recognized as a pioneering female tomboy of the talkies.” filmmaker, during her career she never expressed much interest When the Great Depression rendered moviegoers in her work, seeing it only as a means to an end, with her hostile toward feminism, Warner Bros. tried to craft a new income carefully invested in real estate. It has taken many years image of her as glamorous and sexy. Executives assigned for her to gain her rightful place in film history, not only as a her contradictory roles in which she was empowered in the comedienne, but also as matriarch of a prominent American workplace but submissive to her male partner at home. The family that includes son-in-law and director George Stevens new persona flopped at the box office, and Lightner’s stardom and grandson George Stevens Jr., founder of the American ended. In four final movies, she played supporting roles as the Film Institute and the Kennedy Center Honors, who provides a loudmouthed roommate and best friend of actresses Loretta foreword. Young, Joan Crawford, and Mona Barrie. Following her retirement in 1934, Lightner faded into Over the past forty-five years,ANTHONY SLIDE, Studio obscurity. Many of her films were damaged or even lost City, California, has written and edited more than two hundred entirely. At long last, this biography gives Winnie Lightner the books on the history of popular entertainment. He is a pioneer recognition she deserves as a notable figure in film history, in in the documentation of women in silent film, writing the women’s history, and in the history of show business. first biography of Lois Weber, editing the memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché, and authoring the first study of women silent DAVID L. LIGHTNER, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is film directors. Lillian Gish called him “our preeminent film professor emeritus of history at the University of Alberta. He historian of the silent era.” This is his seventh book published is the author of Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle with UPM. against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War; Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse: The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in SEPTEMBER, 144 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 43 b&w illustrations, Illinois; and Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852–1900: foreword, appendices, filmography, bibliography, index The Evolution of an Industrial Environment. He became interested Cloth $26.00T 978-1-4968-0632-1 in Winnie Lightner because of their shared surname but is not Ebook available related to her. Hollywood Legends Series

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Madeline Kahn Susan Sontag Being the Music, A Life NEW IN The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated Paperback William V. Madison Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock

est known for her Oscar- his first biography of Susan nominated roles in the Sontag (1933–2004) smash hits Paper Moon is now fully revised and and Blazing Saddles, Madeline Kahn updated, providing an even more B(1942–1999) was one of the most Tintimate portrayal of the influential popular comedians of her time— writer’s life and career. The authors and one of the least understood. base this revision on Sontag’s newly In private, she was as reserved and released private correspondence— refined as her characters were bold including emails—and the letters and bawdy. Almost a Method actor and memoirs of those who knew her in her approach, she took her work best. The authors reveal as never seriously. When crew members and before her early years in Tucson audiences laughed, she asked why— and Los Angeles, her conflicted as if they were laughing at her—and relationship with her mother, her THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY all her life she remained unsure of AN INTIMATE longing for her absent father, and OF THE GREAT her gifts. her precocious achievements at the PORTRAIT OF THE COMEDIC ACTRESS William V. Madison examines University of California, Berkeley, Kahn’s film career, including not FAMED WRITER, and the University of Chicago. AND STAR OF STAGE only her triumphs with Mel Brooks DIRECTOR, AND Papers, diaries, and lecture notes, AND SCREEN and Peter Bogdanovich, but also ACTIVIST many accessible for the first time, her overlooked performances in The spark a passionate fire in this Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter biography. Brother and Judy Berlin, her final film. Her work in television— The authors follow Sontag as she abruptly ends an early notably her sitcoms—also comes into focus. New York theater first marriage, establishes herself in Paris, and embraces the showered her with accolades, but also with remarkably bad luck, open lifestyle she began as a teenager in Berkeley. As a single culminating in a disastrous outing in On the Twentieth Century that mother she struggled with teaching at Columbia University wrecked her reputation on Broadway. Only with her Tony- and other colleges while aiming for a career as a novelist and winning performance in The Sisters Rosensweig, fifteen years later, essayist. Eventually she made her own way in New York City after did Kahn regain her standing. acquiring her one and only publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Drawing on new interviews with family, friends, and such In her later years Sontag became a world figure, a colleagues as Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett, Gene Wilder, Harold tastemaker, dramatist, and political activist who risked her life Prince, and Eileen Brennan, as well as archival press and private in besieged Sarajevo. Love affairs with men and women troubled writings, Madison uncovers Kahn’s lonely childhood and her her. Diagnosed with cancer, she responded with determination, struggles as a single woman working to provide for her erratic and her experience with illness inspired some of her best mother. Above all, Madison reveals the paramount importance writing. This biography shows Sontag always craving “more life” of music in Kahn’s life. A talented singer, she entertained at whatever cost and depicts her harrowing final decline even as offers for operatic engagements long after she was an established she resisted terminal cancer. Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon Hollywood star, and she treated each script as a score. As Kahn presents in candid and stark relief a new assessment of a heroic told one friend, her ambition was “to be the music.” and controversial figure.

WILLIAM V. MADISON, New York, New York, is a former CARL ROLLYSON, Cape May County, New Jersey, is professor producer at CBS News and a former associate editor of Opera of journalism at Baruch College, CUNY. His books include News; he was the lone production assistant on the Broadway American Isis: The Life of Sylvia Plath; Amy Lowell: A New Biography; musical Rags in 1986. A graduate of Brown University and of Confessions of a Serial Biographer; A Real American Character: The Columbia’s School of Creative Writing, he is a native Texan. Life of Walter Brennan; Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews; and Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (the latter three published by SEPTEMBER, 372 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 49 b&w photographs, filmography, University Press of Mississippi). LISA PADDOCK, Cape May index County, New Jersey, is a freelance writer and editor. Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0959-9 Ebook available SEPTEMBER, 368 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 13 b&w illustrations, Hollywood Legends Series bibliography, index Paper $30.00T 978-1-62846-237-1 Ebook available

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Stephen Sondheim and Brian De Palma’s NEW IN the Reinvention of the Split-Screen Paperback American Musical A Life in Film

Robert L. McLaughlin Douglas Keesey ver the last five decades, the rom West Side Story in films of director Brian De 1957 to Road Show in Palma (b. 1940) have been 2008, the musicals among the biggest successes (The of Stephen Sondheim and his Untouchables, Mission: Impossible) and collaborators have challenged O F the most high-profile failures The( the conventions of American Bonfire of the Vanities) in Hollywood musical theater and expanded the history. De Palma helped launch possibilities of what musical plays the careers of such prominent can do, how they work, and what actors as Robert De Niro, John they mean. Sondheim’s brilliant Travolta, and Sissy Spacek (who was array of work, including such nominated for an Academy Award musicals as Company, Follies, Sweeney as Best Actress in Carrie). Indeed Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Quentin Tarantino named Blow Into the Woods, has established him as A BIOGRAPHICAL HOW THE PREEMINENT Out as one of his top three favorite the preeminent composer/lyricist of APPROACH TO films, praising De Palma as the best BROADWAY his, if not all, time. living American director. Stephen Sondheim and the THE FILMS OF A COMPOSER BRIDGED Picketed by feminists protesting CONTROVERSIAL THE GAP BETWEEN Reinvention of the American Musical places Sondheim’s work in its depictions of violence against AND PROVOCATIVE Dressed to Kill RODGERS AND two contexts: the exhaustion women, helped to DIRECTOR create the erotic thriller genre. HAMMERSTEIN AND of the musical play and the Scarface, with its over-the-top postmodernism that, by the 1960s, POSTMODERNISM performance by Al Pacino, deeply influenced all the American remains a cult favorite. In the twenty-first century, De Palma arts. Sondheim’s musicals are has continued to experiment, incorporating elements from central to the transition from the Rodgers and Hammerstein– videogames (Femme Fatale), tabloid journalism (The Black Dahlia), style musical that had dominated Broadway stages for twenty YouTube, and Skype (Redacted and Passion) into his latest works. years to a new postmodern musical. This new style reclaimed What makes De Palma such a maverick even when he is many of the self-aware, performative techniques of the 1930s making Hollywood genre films? Why do his movies often musical comedy to develop its themes of the breakdown of feature megalomaniacs and failed heroes? Is he merely a narrative knowledge and the fragmentation of identity. In his misogynist and an imitator of Alfred Hitchcock? To answer most recent work, Sondheim, who was famously mentored by these questions, author Douglas Keesey takes a biographical Oscar Hammerstein II, stretches toward a twenty-first-century approach to De Palma’s cinema, showing how De Palma reworks musical that seeks to break out of the self-referring web of events from his own life into his films. Written in an accessible language. Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical style and including a chapter on every one of his films to date, offers close readings of all of Sondheim’s musicals and finds this book is for anyone who wants to know more about De in them critiques of the operation of power, questioning Palma’s controversial films or who wants to better understand of conventional systems of knowledge, and explorations of the man who made them. contemporary identity. DOUGLAS KEESEY, Cayucos, California, has published books on Catherine Breillat, Don DeLillo, Clint Eastwood, ROBERT L. McLAUGHLIN, Bloomington, Illinois, is professor of English at Illinois State University. With Sally E. Parry, he is Peter Greenaway, the Marx Brothers, Jack Nicholson, and Paul the author of We’ll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during Verhoeven as well as erotic cinema and film noir. He teaches World War II and editor of Innovations: An Anthology of Modern and film at California Polytechnic State University. Contemporary Fiction. FEBRUARY, 364 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 20 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index SEPTEMBER, 312 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 10 b&w illustrations, Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0972-8 bibliography, index Ebook available Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-0855-4 Ebook available

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Martin Scorsese Paul Verhoeven Interviews, Revised and Updated Interviews

Edited by Robert Ribera Edited by Margaret Barton-Fumo

artin Scorsese (b. fter a robust career in the 1942) has long been Netherlands as the country’s considered one of most successful director, America’s greatest cinematic Paul Verhoeven (b. 1938) built an Mstorytellers. Over the last fifty Aimpressive career in the United years he has created some of the States with such controversial most iconic moments in American blockbusters as RoboCop, Total film, never afraid to confront Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, controversial issues with passion. and Showgirls before returning While few of his films are directly home to direct 2006’s Black Book. autobiographical, his upbringing After a recent stint as a reality in New York’s Little Italy, the television judge in the Netherlands, childhood asthma that kept him Verhoeven returned to the big from playing sports, and his early screen with his first feature film “THERE IS MORE TO BE “I DON’T KNOW IF I desire to enter the priesthood in a decade, a highly anticipated ANY LONGER ACCEPT all helped form his sensibilities SAID ABOUT DESPAIR French-language production, Elle, THE IDEA OF AN and later shaped his distinct style. THAN THERE IS ABOUT starring Isabelle Huppert. Community, religion, violence— Verhoeven, who INHERENT SINFULNESS HAPPINESS. AND I’M these themes drive a Scorsese holds a PhD in mathematics with NOT TALKING ABOUT IN HUMAN NATURE. I picture, and whether he examines a concentration on the theory THINK IN THE PROCESS the violence that bursts forth in the WHAT I’D PREFER of relativity, boasts a fascinating OF LIVING, WE MAY hand of Travis Bickle or the passion IN REAL LIFE BUT background. Traversing Hollywood, of Jesus Christ, Scorsese’s mastery the Dutch film industry, and now NEED REDEMPTION WHEN IT COMES TO of the history, art, and craft of French filmmaking, the interviews JUST FROM BEING filmmaking is undeniable. DRAMATURGY.” in this volume reveal a complex, WHO WE ARE.” This collection was originally often ambiguous figure, as well as a edited by the late Peter Brunette director of immense talent. in 1999 and is now revised and Paul Verhoeven: Interviews covers every phase of the director’s extensively updated by Robert Ribera. It traces Scorsese’s career, beginning with six newly translated Dutch newspaper evolution from the earliest days of the New American Cinema, interviews dating back to 1968 and ending with a set of his work with Roger Corman, and his days at New York previously unpublished interviews dedicated to his most recent University’s film program to his efforts to preserve the legacy work. He experimented with crowd-sourced filmmaking for the of cinema, his documentary work, and his recent string of television show The Entertainment Experience, which resulted in successes. Among new movies discussed are The Departed, Hugo, the filmTricked , as well as his latest feature Elle. Editor Margaret and The Wolf of Wall Street, and the documentaries No Direction Barton-Fumo includes “Sex, Cinema and Showgirls,” a long Home, The Blues, and Shine a Light. Scorsese stands out as a out-of-print essay by Verhoeven on his most controversial film, director, producer, scholar, preservationist, and icon. His accompanied by pages of original storyboards from this and work both behind the camera and in the service of its history some of Verhoeven’s other films. Finally, Barton-Fumo allots are a cornerstone of American and world cinemas. In these due attention to the director’s little-known lifelong fascination interviews, Scorsese takes us from Elizabeth Street to the heights with the historical Jesus Christ. Verhoeven is the only non- of Hollywood and all the journeys in between. theologian member of the exclusive Westar Institute and author of the book Jesus of Nazareth. ROBERT RIBERA, Boston, Massachusetts, holds a PhD from Boston University and was the associate producer on For the Love MARGARET BARTON-FUMO, Brooklyn, New York, has of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism. He has published contributed to Film Comment since 2006. She has interviewed short takes in Cineaste. such directors, actors, and musicians as Brian De Palma, Alejandro Jodorowsky, James Gray, Andrzej Zulawski, Harry FEBRUARY, 320 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, Dean Stanton, and Paul Williams. filmography, index Printed casebinding $85.00S 978-1-4968-0923-0 JANUARY, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0947-6 filmography, 32 b&w illustrations, index Ebook available Printed casebinding $55.00S 978-1-4968-1015-1 Conversations with Filmmakers Series Ebook available Conversations with Filmmakers Series

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Peter Bogdanovich Alexander Payne Interviews NEW IN Interviews NEW IN Paperback Paperback Edited by Peter Tonguette Edited by Julie Levinson

efore he was the Academy ince 1996, Alexander Award–nominated Payne (b. 1961) has made director of The Last Picture six feature films and Show, Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939) a short segment of an omnibus Binterviewed some of cinema’s great Smovie. Although his body of masters: Orson Welles, Alfred work is quantitatively small, it is Hitchcock, John Ford, and others. qualitatively impressive. His movies Since becoming an acclaimed have garnered numerous accolades filmmaker himself, he has given and awards, including two Academy countless interviews to the press Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay. about his own career. As more than one interviewer in this This volume collects thirteen of volume points out, he maintains an his best, most comprehensive, and impressive and unbroken winning “A MOVIE SHOULD most insightful interviews, many streak. Payne’s stories of human long out of print and several never “INDEPENDENT BE LIKE A DREAM. IT strivings and follies, alongside his before published in their entirety. MEANS ONE THING mastery of the craft of filmmaking, WASHES OVER YOU, They cover more than forty years of TO ME: IT MEANS mark him as a contemporary auteur YOU DON’T KNOW directing, with Bogdanovich talking THAT REGARDLESS of uncommon accomplishment. WHAT’S AFFECTING candidly about such great triumphs In this first compilation of his as The Last Picture Show and What’s OF THE SOURCE OF interviews, Payne reveals himself as a YOU, YOU CAN’T DO Up, Doc?, and such overlooked FINANCING, THE captivating conversationalist as well. ANYTHING ABOUT IT; gems as Daisy Miller and They All DIRECTOR’S VOICE IS The discussions collected here range YOU’RE TAKEN AWAY.” Laughed. from 1996, shortly after the release EXTREMELY PRESENT. Assembled by acclaimed critic of his first film, Citizen Ruth, to the Peter Tonguette, also author of . . . IT’S WHERE YOU 2013 debut of his film Nebraska. a new critical biography of Bogdanovich, these interviews FEEL THE DIRECTOR, Over his career, he muses on many demonstrate that Bogdanovich is not only one of America’s NOT A MACHINE, AT subjects including his own creative finest filmmakers, but also one of its most eloquent when processes, his commitment to WORK.” discussing film and his own remarkable movies. telling character-centered stories, and his abiding admiration for PETER TONGUETTE, New Albany, Ohio, is a freelance movies and directors from across decades of film history. writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Critics describe Payne as one of the few contemporary Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Weekly Standard, Sight filmmakers who consistently manages to buck the current trend & Sound, Film Comment, and many other publications. Also toward bombastic blockbusters. Like the 1970s director-driven the author of Orson Welles Remembered and The Films of James Bridges, cinema that he cherishes, his films are small-scale character he is author of a forthcoming critical biography of Peter studies that manage to maintain a delicate balance between Bogdanovich. sharp satire and genuine poignancy.

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Teacher Assassins, Eccentrics, Two Years in the Mississippi Delta NEW IN Politicians, and Other Paperback Michael Copperman Persons of Interest hen Michael Fifty Pieces from the Road Copperman left Stanford University Curtis Wilkie for the Mississippi Delta in Foreword by Hank Klibanoff 2002,W he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the riting as a newspaper narrow horizons of rural poverty. reporter for nearly Well-meaning but naïve, the Asian forty years, Curtis American from the West Coast Wilkie covered eight presidential soon lost his bearings in a world campaigns,W spent years in the Middle divided between black and white. East, and traveled to a number He had no idea how to manage a of conflicts abroad. However, his classroom or help children navigate memory kept turning home and the considerable challenges they many of his most treasured stories A MESMERIZING faced. In trying to help students, he transpire in the Deep South. He ACCOUNT OF THE often found he couldn’t afford to called his native Mississippi “the gift that keeps on giving.” For Wilkie, it REALITIES OF WORK- give what they required—sometimes, with heartbreaking consequences. represented a trove of rogues and ING WITH TEACH FOR His desperate efforts to save child racists, colorful personalities, and A COMPILATION FROM AMERICA IN ONE after child were misguided but outlandish politicians who managed THE INCOMPARABLE OF THE COUNTRY’S sincere. He offered children the to thrive among people otherwise best invitations to success he could CAREER OF ONE OF kind and generous. POOREST AND MOST manage. But he still felt like an THE ORIGINAL “BOYS Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and CHALLENGED REGIONS outsider who was failing the children Other Persons of Interest collects news ON THE BUS” and himself. dispatches and feature stories from Teach For America has for a decade been the nation’s the author during a journalism career largest employer of recent college graduates but has come that began in 1963 and lasted until 2000. As a young reporter for under increasing criticism in recent years even as it has grown the Clarksdale Press Register, he wrote many articles that dealt with the exponentially. This memoir considers the distance between the civil rights movement, which dominated the news in the Mississippi idealism of the organization’s creed that “One day, all children Delta during the 1960s.Wilkie spent twenty-six years as a national will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education” and and foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe. One of the original what it actually means to teach in America’s poorest and most “Boys on the Bus” (the title of a best-selling book about journalists troubled public schools. covering the 1972 presidential campaign), he later wrote extensively Copperman’s memoir vividly captures his disorientation about the winning races of two southern presidents, Jimmy Carter in the divided world of the Delta, even as the author marvels at and Bill Clinton. the wit and resilience of the children in his classroom. To them, Wilkie is known for stories reported deeply, rife with he is at once an authority figure and a stranger minority than anecdotes, physical descriptions, and important background even they are—a lone Asian, an outsider among outsiders. His details. He writes about the notorious, such as the late Hunter S. journey is of great relevance to teachers, administrators, and Thompson, as well as more anonymous subjects whose stories, parents longing for quality education in America. His frank in his hands, have enduring interest. The anthology collects story shows that the solutions for impoverished schools are far pieces about several notable southerners: Ross Barnett; Byron from simple. De La Beckwith and Sam Bowers; Billy Carter; Edwin Edwards and David Duke; Trent Lott; and Charles Evers. Wilkie brings a From 2002 to 2004, MICHAEL COPPERMAN, Eugene, perceptive eye to people and events, and his eloquent storytelling Oregon, taught fourth grade in the rural black public schools of represents some of the best journalistic writing. the Mississippi Delta with Teach For America. Now, he teaches writing to low-income, first-generation college students of CURTIS WILKIE, Oxford, Mississippi, spent most of his career as a diverse backgrounds at the University of Oregon. His work national and foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe. After his has appeared in the Sun, the Oxford-American, Guernica, Creative retirement, he joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi, Nonfiction, and Copper Nickel, and has garnered fellowships and where he teaches journalism and serves as a fellow at the Overby awards from the Munster Literature Center, the Oregon Arts Center for Southern Journalism and Politics. He is the author of Commission, Literary Arts, and Bread Loaf Writers Conference. three earlier books, including The Fall of the House of Zeus.

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Pelican Road Lucky Dogs BACK IN From Bourbon Street to Beijing and Beyond Howard Bahr Print Jerry E. Strahan

arly on the morning of hen walking the Christmas Eve, 1940, French Quarter and Artemus Kane leaves his watching a Lucky Dog sweetheart’s New Orleans flat to salesman set up that colorful cart Ecatch the northbound Silver Star, andW call out to entice customers, a first-class passenger train on don’t you wonder how such a the Southern Railway. Artemus, business works? As a knowing a brakeman, will help bring the review in Rolling Stone stated, train to Meridian, Mississippi, a “People have always loved the 180-mile journey along what the cart and harbored a mysterious railroad men call “Pelican Road.” need to ride it. Revelers have Meanwhile, in the Meridian yard, been known to climb on top of conductor Frank Smith awakes the rolling wienies, screaming in his caboose. A few hours later, THE RIVETING STORY ‘Yippee kaya!’ as vendors stoically Smith will take charge of a fast THE FOUNDER’S push them back to the barn at OF A LOST WAY OF freight train southbound for the ACCOUNT OF THE 4 a.m.” Since 1947 the red and LIFE ALONG A GREAT Crescent City. yellow carts have trumpeted good Smith and Kane, who served ICONIC HOTDOG CART SOUTHERN RAILROAD fortune and sustenance. BUSINESS AND ITS together in the Marine Corps Jerry E. Strahan recounts the during World War I, are old ROLE IN THE FRENCH wild adventures of the Bourbon comrades. Their friendship flourishes amid the community QUARTER AND THE Street wienie salesmen but also of railroad men who work along Pelican Road—a brotherhood WORLD takes readers well beyond New whose lives are spent among the lights and shadows, the danger Orleans. In fact, he takes them and humor and violence, and the loneliness and camaraderie halfway around the world, where of railroad work. On this Christmas Eve, however, Smith and this unique pushcart business maneuvered its way through the Kane are each bound on a journey that will alter their lives bureaucratic red tape of a communist country to become a forever. licensed corporation in the People’s Republic of China. Pelican Road is a novel played out against the landscape of a In China, two points quickly became apparent to Strahan. vanished way of life. Howard Bahr, who worked as a brakeman First, 99 percent of the Chinese population had no idea what a and yard clerk in the twilight years of old-time railroading, Lucky Dog cart represented. One elderly passerby declared it to brings the authenticity of experience to his narrative. Pelican be a missile. Second, the success or failure of any joint venture Road, however, seems more than a railroad adventure story. At in the Asian nation is directly proportional to the political its heart, the novel is about friendship and love, about men and clout of that company’s local partner. women who persevere in the face of hardship and danger and Lucky Dogs also recounts how the business and its vendors who, in the end, find redemption in each other. survived Hurricane Katrina. Miraculously, it reopened only six months after the storm in a city where more than 80 percent of HOWARD BAHR, Jackson, Mississippi, is a native of Meridian, the landmass had been flooded and where less than 40 percent Mississippi, a Vietnam veteran, a former railroader, and the of the population had returned. To reestablish itself in what author of four novels. He received his bachelor’s and master’s many described as Third World conditions, the company had degrees in English from the University of Mississippi, then to transform its operation. worked as a professor of English. He is currently writer-in- This work mixes business history, autobiography, survival residence at Belhaven University. story, and an insider’s look at the bizarre lives of some of Bourbon Street’s most quirky characters—the dauntless Lucky SEPTEMBER, 308 pages, 6 x 9 inches Dog vendors. Both humorous and tragic, though it may read Paper $25.00R 978-1-4968-1050-2 Ebook available like fiction, it is, for better or worse, all fact. Banner Books JERRY E. STRAHAN, New Orleans, Louisiana, has been general manager of Lucky Dogs, Inc. since 1976. He is the author of Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War II and Managing Ignatius: The Lunacy of Lucky Dogs and Life in the Quarter.

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Ain’t There No More Announcing Louisiana’s Disappearing Coastal Plain America’s Third Coast Series Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis Foreword by Robert Twilley

or centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana’s coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the Fregion’s fragile prairies tremblants despite repeated natural and, more recently, man-made disasters. Yet, the cumulative environmental knowledge these wetlands survivors have gained through painful CARL A. BRASSEAUX AND experiences over the course of two centuries holds invaluable keys to the successful DONALD W. DAVIS, SERIES EDITORS adaptation of modern coastal communities A HARROWING throughout the globe. As Hurricane Sandy lthough disasters of the past decade—from recently demonstrated, coastal peoples Hurricanes Lili, Katrina, Rita, Humberto, ACCOUNT OF COASTAL everywhere face rising sea levels, disastrous Gustav, Ike, and Isaac to the massive BP oil EROSION, LONG coastal erosion, and, inevitably, difficult spill—have drawn international attention to the NEGLECT, AND A MAN- lifestyle choices. Afragility, vulnerability, and consequence of the Along the Bayou State’s coast the most MADE DISASTER IN THE Louisiana Gulf Coast, the scholarly scrutiny given to insidious challenges are man-made. Since this area has failed to reflect its significance. Series BAYOU STATE channelization of the Mississippi River in editors Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis the wake of the 1927 flood, which diverted aim to fill this noticeable void with publications on sediments and nutrients from the wetlands, coastal Louisiana has lost to Gulf Coast history, life, and culture. In particular, erosion, subsidence, and rising sea levels a land mass roughly twice the size this series will highlight the economic activities and of Connecticut. State and national policymakers were unable to reverse environmental stewardship of the inhabitants of this this environmental catastrophe until Hurricane Katrina focused a harsh diverse region. spotlight on the human consequences of eight decades of neglect. Yet, even From eyewitness accounts of the coastal plain today, the welfare of Louisiana’s coastal plain residents remains, at best, an throughout history, to examinations of the region’s afterthought in state and national policy discussions. industries, to books on the coast’s historic hurricanes, For coastal families, the Gulf water lapping at the doorstep makes material culture, and foodways, books in the series will this morass by no means a scholarly debate over abstract problems. Ain’t explore the Gulf Coast in a format accessible to policy There No More renders an easily read history filled with new insights makers, residents of the coast, and the general public and possibilities. Rare, previously unpublished images documenting alike. a disappearing way of life accompany the narrative. The authors bring nearly a century of combined experience to distilling research and telling Written by leading scholars in the field, this this story in a way invaluable to Louisianans, to policymakers, and to all series offers readers important insights into a timely those concerned with rising sea levels and seeking a long-term solution. discussion on restoring and rehabilitating the coast with the coastal population, for the first time, at the South Louisiana native CARL A. BRASSEAUX, Lafayette, Louisiana, forefront of the nation’s consciousness. former director of the Center for Louisiana Studies, has spent a lifetime studying the peoples and cultures of the Louisiana coastal plain. He is This contribution has been the author of more than three dozen books and more than one hundred supported with funding provided scholarly articles, including Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, by the Louisiana Sea Grant College 1803–1877 and Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country, both published by Program (LSG) under NOAA Award University Press of Mississippi. He is a former Louisiana Writer of the # NA14OAR4170099. Additional support is from the Louisiana Sea DONALD W. DAVIS Year. , Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been involved Grant Foundation. The funding in coastal-related research for more than forty years on the wide array of support of LSG and NOAA is renewable and non-renewable resources vital to the use of the wetlands. gratefully acknowledged, along with His work has appeared in numerous journals including Annals of the the matching support by LSU. American Association of American Geographers, Shore and Beach, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Louisiana Conservationists, and Louisiana History.

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Teche Hardscrabble to Hallelujah, A History of Louisiana’s Most Famous Bayou Volume 1 Bayou Terrebonne Shane K. Bernard Legacies of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

hane K. Bernard’s Teche Christopher Everette Cenac, Sr., M.D., F.A.C.S. examines this legendary with Claire Domangue Joller waterway of the American Foreword by Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis Deep South. Bernard delves into Sthe bayou’s geologic formation his book represents the as a vestige of the Mississippi and first time that the known Red Rivers, its prehistoric Native history and a significant American occupation, and its amount of new information colonial settlement by French, Thas been compiled into a single Spanish, and, eventually, Anglo- written record about one of the American pioneers. He surveys most important eras in the south the coming of indigo, cotton, and central coastal bayou parish of sugar; steam-powered sugar mills Terrebonne. The book makes and riverboats; and the brutal clear the unique geographical, AN EXTRAORDINARY institution of slavery. He also topographical, and sociological conditions that beckoned the ENGAGEMENT WITH examines the impact of the Civil War on the Teche, depicting the first settlers who developed THE COLORFUL running battles up and down the AN INCOMPARABLE the large estates that became HISTORY OF A STORIED bayou and the sporadic gunboat HISTORICAL RECORD sugar plantations. This first of duels, when ironclads clashed in a planned four-volume series INLAND WATERWAY OF A BAYOU’S MANY the narrow confines of the dark, chronicles details about founders sluggish river. PLANTATIONS, FARMS, and their estates along Bayou Describing the misery of the postbellum era, Bernard AND HOMESTEADS Terrebonne from its headwaters reveals how epic floods, yellow fever, racial violence, and in the northern civil parish to widespread poverty disrupted the lives of those who resided its most southerly reaches near under the sprawling, moss-draped live oaks lining the Teche’s the Gulf of Mexico. Those and other parish plantations along banks. Further, he chronicles the slow decline of the bayou, as important waterways contributed significantly to the dominance of King Sugar in Louisiana. the coming of the railroad, automobiles, and highways reduced The rich soils and opportunities of the area became the its value as a means of travel. Finally, he considers modern overriding reason many well-heeled Anglo-Americans moved efforts to redesign the Teche using dams, locks, levees, and there to join Francophone locals in cultivating the crop. From other water-control measures. He examines the recent push that nineteenth century period up to the twentieth century’s to clean and revitalize the bayou after years of desecration by side effects of World Wars I and II, Hardscrabble to Hallelujah, litter, pollutants, and invasive species. Illustrated with historic Volume I describes important yet widely unrecognized geography images and numerous maps, this book will be required reading and history. Today, cultural and physical legacies such as ex- for anyone seeking the colorful history of Louisiana and the slave founded communities and place names endure from the Gulf Coast. time that the planter society was the driving economic force of As a bonus, the second part of the book describes this fascinating region. Bernard’s own canoe journey down the Teche’s 125-mile course. This modern personal account from the field reveals the CHRISTOPHER EVERETTE CENAC, SR., M.D., F.A.C.S., current state of the bayou and the remarkable people who still Houma, Louisiana, is a practicing orthopedic surgeon and live along its banks. has served a term as Terrebonne parish coroner. He and his wife, Cindy, reside at Winter Quarters on Bayou Black. He SHANE K. BERNARD, New Iberia, Louisiana, is the author of is the author of Eyes of an Eagle: Jean-Pierre Cenac, Patriarch: An several books on south Louisiana history and culture including Illustrated History of Early Houma-Terrebonne (selected book of the Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader’s History; The Louisiana Bicentennial Commission) and Livestock Brands and Cajuns: Americanization of a People; Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Marks: An Unexpected Bayou Country History 1822-1946, Pioneer Rhythm and Blues, all published by University Press of Mississippi; Families Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana (a Louisiana Endowment and TABASCO®: An Illustrated History, distributed by University for the Humanities Book of the Year), both distributed by Press of Mississippi. Bernard lives a short distance from Bayou University Press of Mississippi. Teche. SEPTEMBER, 300 pages (approx.), 9 x 12 inches, 210 b&w/color NOVEMBER, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 43 b&w illustrations, illustrations (approx.), 40 maps, 15 tables, introduction, foreword, 8 maps, index appendices, bibliography, index Cloth $25.00T 978-1-4968-0941-4 Cloth $80.00T 978-0-9897594-1-0 Ebook available Ebook available America’s Third Coast Series Distributed for J.P.C., L.L.C.

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Chris Ware Peter Kuper Conversations Conversations

Edited by Jean Braithwaite Edited by Kent Worcester

irtuoso Chris Ware (b. eter Kuper (b. 1958), 1967) has achieved some one of America’s leading noteworthy firsts for cartoonists, has created comics. The Guardian First Book work recognized around the world. VAward for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest HisP art has graced the pages and Kid on Earth was the first major UK covers of numerous magazines and literary prize awarded for a graphic newspapers, novel. In 2002 Ware was the first including Time, Newsweek, the New Yorker, Harper’s, Mother Jones, “[COMICS] WAS A cartoonist included in the Whitney Biennial. the Progressive, the Nation, and the New MEDIUM THAT TRIED Like Art Spiegelman or Alison York Times. He is also a longtime TO PUT BITS OF Bechdel, Ware thus stands out as contributor to Mad magazine, where he has been writing and drawing Spy THE PAST, PRESENT, an important crossover artist who “THROUGHOUT MY vs. Spy for nearly two decades. He is AND FUTURE ALL has made the wider public aware CAREER I’VE TRIED TO of comics as literature. His regular the cofounder and coeditor of World TOGETHER ON A PAGE War 3 Illustrated, the cutting-edge New Yorker covers give him a central DEFY WHAT PEOPLE— magazine devoted to political graphic SO THEY COULD BE place in our national cultural ESPECIALLY NON- art. His graphic novels have explored conversation. Since the earliest issues APPREHENDED BOTH COMIC READERS— the medium from comics journalism of ACME Novelty Library in the 1990s, AS A MASS AND AS A PRESUME ABOUT THE and autobiography to fiction and cartoonist peers have acclaimed FLOW, OR, IN MORE FORM.” literary adaptations. Among the Ware’s distinctive, meticulous visual works examined herein are his HIGH-FALUTING style and technical innovations to books The System, Sticks and Stones, WORDS, AS A WAVE the medium. Ware also remains Stop Forgetting to Remember, Diario de Oaxaca, and adaptations of a literary author of the highest AND AS A PARTICLE.” Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Upton Sinclair’s The caliber, spending many years to Jungle. Kuper also discusses his recently published opus, the create thematically complex graphic 328-page Ruins, inspired by his experiences in Oaxaca, Mexico. masterworks such as Building Stories and the ongoing Rusty Brown. Along with two dozen black-and-white images, this Editor Jean Braithwaite compiles interviews displaying volume features ten lively, informative interviews with Kuper, both Ware’s erudition and his quirky self-deprecation. They including a career-spanning lengthy new interview. The span Ware’s career from 1993 to 2015, creating a time-lapse book also includes a quartet of revealing interviews with under- portrait of the artist as he matures. Several of the earliest talks ground comix legends R. Crumb and Vaugh Bodē, Mad are reprinted from zines now extremely difficult to locate. magazine publisher William Gaines, and Jack Kirby, cocreator Braithwaite has selected the best broadcasts and podcasts of mainstream superheroes from the Avengers to the Fantastic featuring the interview-shy Ware for this volume, including Four. These interviews were conducted by Kuper and fellow new transcriptions. An interview with Marnie Ware from 2000 artist Seth Tobocman in the early 1970s, when they were makes for a delightful change of pace, as she offers a generous, teenagers. Most of the interviews collected in this book supremely lucid attitude toward her husband and his work. are either previously unpublished or long out of print, and they Candidly and humorously, she considers married life with a address such varied topics as the nuts and bolts of creating genius in the house. Brand-new interviews with both Chris and graphic novels, world travels, teaching at Harvard University, Marnie Ware conclude the volume. Hollywood dealmaking, climate change, Spy vs. Spy, New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, Mad magazine, and World War 3 JEAN BRAITHWAITE, Edinburg, Texas, is associate professor Illustrated. of English at the University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley, where she teaches comics among other courses. Braithwaite is comics KENT WORCESTER, Bronx, New York, is a professor of editor at riverSedge: A Journal of Art and Literature. Her previous political science at Marymount Manhattan College. His most book was a literary memoir, FAT: The Story of My Life with My recent books are Peter Bagge: Conversations; The Superhero Reader Body, and she has published in periodicals including the Sun, the (coedited with Charles Hatfield and Jeet Heer); A Comics New York Times, North American Review, and the Henry James Review. Studies Reader (coedited with Jeet Heer); and Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (coedited with Jeet Heer), all JANUARY, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 29 b&w illustrations, published by University Press of Mississippi. 11 color illustrations, introduction, chronology, index Printed casebinding $40.00S 978-1-4968-0929-2 OCTOBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 24 b&w illustrations, Ebook available introduction, chronology, index Conversations with Comic Artists Series Printed casebinding $40.00S 978-1-4968-0837-0 Ebook available Credit: Self-portrait © Chris Ware Conversations with Comic Artists Series

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Peter Bagge Captain Marvel and Conversations NEW IN Paperback the Art of Nostalgia Edited by Kent Worcester Brian Cremins or fans of Peter Bagge (b. 1957) and his bracing illy Batson discovers a satirical writing and secret in a forgotten drawing, this collection offers subway tunnel. There Fa perfect means to track how the young man meets a wizard who he describes his career choices, Boffers a precious gift: a magic word work habits, preoccupations, that will transform the newsboy into and comedic sensibility since the a hero. When Billy says, “Shazam!,” 1980s. Featuring a new interview he becomes Captain Marvel, the and much previously unavailable World’s Mightiest Mortal, one material, this book delivers of the most popular comic book insightful, occasionally gossipy, characters of the 1940s. This book sometimes funny, and often tart tells the story of that hero and the conversations. writers and artists who created his “WHAT COMICS HAVE Bagge’s detailed, garrulous, magical adventures. and often grotesquely funny (and THE MARVELOUS ALL OVER ELECTRONIC The saga of Captain Marvel is discomfiting) work harks back STORY OF INNOVA- also that of artist C. C. Beck and MEDIA IS THAT IT’S to the underground generation, TORS C. C. BECK AND writer Otto Binder, one of the most TOTALLY POSSIBLE TO recalling R. Crumb and Gilbert innovative and prolific creative Shelton, while also pointing OTTO BINDER AND teams working during the Golden GET ONE PERSON’S forward to the emergence of THEIR MIGHTY Age of comics in the United States. VISION IN COMICS. alternative comics as a distinct AMERICAN HERO While Beck was the technician and FOR TV, YOU HAVE TO genre. His signature series, the rawly humorous Hate and meticulous craftsman, Binder COLLABORATE WITH his editorship of the often contributed the still, human DOZENS IF NOT HUN- outrageous Weirdo magazine, voice at the heart of Billy’s adventures. Later in his career, Beck, like his friend and colleague Will Eisner, developed a DREDS OF PEOPLE.” founded by Crumb, established Bagge as a leading voice in theory of comic art expressed in numerous articles, essays, alternative comics, and his rude, and interviews. A decade after Fawcett Publications settled a wildly expressive cartooning makes him a counterpoint to the copyright infringement lawsuit with Superman’s publisher, Beck still introspection of recent literary graphic novels. and Binder became legendary, celebrated figures in comic book In his career over three decades, Bagge has left his mark as a fandom of the 1960s. prolific cartoonist, an accomplished musician, and a sometime What Beck, Binder, and their readers share in common essayist, editor, and animator. While his creative output is a fascination with nostalgia, which has shaped the history encompasses autobiographical comics, graphic nonfiction, of comics and comics scholarship in the United States. Billy magazine illustrations, gag cartoons, minicomics, political Batson’s America, with its cartoon villains and talking tigers, commentary, superhero parodies, comic strips, animated remains a living archive of childhood memories, so precious but videos, and one-page humor pieces, Bagge stands out for elusive, as strange and mysterious as the boy’s first visit to the creating continuity-based graphic stories that revolve around subway tunnel. Taking cues from Beck’s theories of art and from sharply defined, over-the-top fictional characters. Libertarians the growing field of memory studies,Captain Marvel and the Art know him for his comics journalism, as his graphic biography of Nostalgia explains why we read comics and, more significantly, of Margaret Sanger in 2013 reaches new audiences. While how we remember them and the America that dreamed them up some have lazily branded Bagge as a grunge-era visual satirist, in the first place. his creative restlessness and expanding body of work make it difficult to confine him. BRIAN CREMINS, Chicago, Illinois, is an associate professor KENT WORCESTER, Bronx, New York, is professor of of English at Harper College. His essays have appeared in the political science at Marymount Manhattan College. His International Journal of Comic Art, Studies in American Humor, the most recent books are Peter Kuper: Conversations, The Superhero Los Angeles Review of Books, Alter Ego, and in the edited collection Reader (coedited with Charles Hatfield and Jeet Heer), A Comics Comics and the U.S. South, published by University Press of Studies Reader (coedited with Jeet Heer), and Arguing Comics: Mississippi. Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (coedited with Jeet Heer), all published by University Press of Mississippi. DECEMBER, 256 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 54 b&w illustrations (approx.), bibliography, index DECEMBER, 220 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 10 b&w illustrations, introduction, Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-0876-9 chronology, index Ebook available Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0974-2 Ebook available Conversations with Comic Artists Series

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The Woman Fantastic in Panel to the Screen Contemporary American Style, American Film, and Comic Books Media Culture during the Blockbuster Era Drew Morton Edited by Elyce Rae Helford, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, and Michael R. Howard II ver the past forty years, American film has entered Contributions by Marleen S. Barr, Elyce into a formal interaction Rae Helford, Ewan Kirkland, Nicola Mann, with the comic book. Such comic Megan McDonough, Alex Naylor, Rhonda Obook adaptations as Sin City, 300, Nicol, Joan Ormrod, J. Richard Stevens, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have Tosha Taylor, Katherine A. Wagner, and adopted components of their source Rhonda V. Wilcox materials’ visual style. The screen lthough the last three decades has been fractured into panels, the have offered a growing body photographic has given way to the of scholarship on images of graphic, and the steady rhythm of fantastic women in popular culture, cinematic time has evolved into a far Athese studies either tend to focus on more malleable element. In other one particular variety of fantastic A UNIQUE words, films have begun to look like comics. female (the action or sci-fi heroine), EXPLORATION OF HOW THE INCREDIBLE or on her role in a specific genre Yet, this interplay also occurs ADAPTATION THEORY in the other direction. In order HEROINE HAS (villain, hero, temptress). This edited collection strives to define the AND HOW ONE to retain cultural relevancy, comic EVOLVED AND “Woman Fantastic” more fully. DRAMATIC VISUAL books have begun to look like SHAPED TELEVISION, films. Frank Miller’s originalSin The Woman Fantastic may appear STYLE AFFECTS FILM, COMIC BOOKS, in speculative or realist settings, but City comics are indebted to film ANOTHER noir while Stephen King’s The Dark AND LITERATURE her presence is always recognizable. Through futuristic contexts, fantasy Tower series could be a Sergio Leone worlds, alternate histories, or the spaghetti western translated onto paper. Film and comic books display of superpowers, these insuperable women challenge the continuously lean on one another to reimagine their formal laws of physics, chemistry, and/or biology. attributes and stylistic possibilities. In chapters devoted to certain television programs, adult In Panel to the Screen, Drew Morton examines this dialogue and young adult literature, and comics, contributors discuss in its intersecting and rapidly changing cultural, technological, feminist negotiation of today’s economic and social realities. and industrial contexts. Early on, many questioned the prospect Senior scholars and rising academic stars offer compelling of a “low” art form suited for children translating into “high” analyses of fantastic women from Wonder Woman and She-Hulk art material capable of drawing colossal box office takes. Now to Talia Al Ghul and Martha Washington; from Carrie Vaughn’s the naysayers are as quiet as the queued crowds at Comic- Kitty Norville series to Cinda Williams Chima’s The Seven Cons are massive. Morton provides a nuanced account of this Realms series; and from Battlestar Gallactica’s female Starbuck phenomenon by using formal analysis of the texts in a real world to Game of Thrones’ Sansa and even Elaine Barrish Hammond context of studio budgets, grosses, and audience reception. of USA’s Political Animals. This volume furnishes an important contribution to ongoing discussions of gender and feminism in DREW MORTON, Los Angeles, California, is an assistant popular culture. professor of mass communication at Texas A&M University– Texarkana. His publications have appeared in Animation: An ELYCE RAE HELFORD, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is Interdisciplinary Journal, Cinema Journal, [in]Transition, Journal professor of English and faculty in women’s and gender of Graphic Novels and Comics, and Studies in Comics. He is the studies at Middle Tennessee State University. SHILOH co-founder and coeditor of [in]Transition, the award-winning CARROLL, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is instructor in the journal devoted to videographic criticism. writing center at Middle Tennessee State University. SARAH GRAY, Nashville, Tennessee, and MICHAEL R. HOWARD II, DECEMBER, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 51 b&w illustrations, Edmond, Oklahoma, are graduate students in English at Middle bibliography, index Tennessee State University. Howard is also assistant professor Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-0978-0 and Writing Center Director at Langston College. Carroll, Ebook available Gray, and Howard organized the conference “Catwoman to Katniss: Villainesses and Heroines in Science Fiction.”

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Reading Lessons in Seeing The 10 Cent War Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II Autobiographical Graphic Novel Edited by Trischa Goodnow and James J. Kimble Michael A. Chaney Contributions by Derek Buescher, Travis Cox, Trischa Goodnow, Jon Judy, iterary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic John Katsion, James J. Kimble, Christina novels to illustrate that in form and function they Knopf, Steve E. Martin, Brad Palmer, inform readers on how they ought to be read. Elliott Sawyer, Deborah Clark Vance, His arguments result in an innovative analysis of the various David Wilt, and Zou Yizheng Lknowledges that comics produce and the methods artists and writers employ to convey them. Theoretically eclectic, this study he Allied victory in World attends to the lessons taught by both the form and content of War II relied on far more today’s most celebrated graphic novels. than courageous soldiers. Chaney analyzes the embedded Americans on the home front HOW EMBEDDED lessons in comics and graphic novels Tconstantly supported the war effort METHODS OF through the form’s central tropes: the in the form of factory work, war iconic child storyteller and the inherent bond purchases, salvage drives, and CREATION childishness of comics in American THE STORY OF morale-rallying efforts. Motivating DYNAMICALLY culture; the use of mirrors and masks as HOW THE COMIC these men, women, and children AFFECT MEANING ciphers of the unconscious; embedded to keep doing their bit during the BOOK INDUSTRY war was among the conflict’s most IN COMICS puzzles and games in otherwise story- driven comic narratives; and the form’s ANTICIPATED THE urgent tasks. self-reflexive propensity for showing its FIGHT AGAINST One of the most overlooked aspects of these efforts involved a work. Comics reveal the labor that goes into producing them, FASCISM AND HELPED embedding lessons on how to read the “work” as a whole. surprising initiative—comic book SUSTAIN AMERICA’S Throughout, Chaney draws from a range of theoretical propaganda. Even before Pearl insights from psychoanalysis and semiotics to theories of WAR EFFORT Harbor, the comic book industry reception and production from film studies, art history, and enlisted its formidable army of art- media studies. Some of the major texts examined include ists, writers, and editors to dramatize the conflict for readers Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis; Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The of every age and interest. Comic book superheroes and ev- Smartest Kid on Earth; Joe Sacco’s Palestine; David B.’s Epileptic; eryday characters modeled positive behaviors and encouraged Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner; and many more. As Chaney’s examples readers to keep scrapping. Ultimately those characters proved show, graphic novels teach us even as they create meaning in to be persuasive icons in the war’s most colorful and indelible propaganda campaign. their infinite relay between words and pictures. The 10 Cent War presents a riveting analysis of how differ- ent types of comic books and comic book characters supplied MICHAEL A. CHANEY, White River Junction, Vermont, is reasons and means to support the war effort. The contributors associate professor of English at Dartmouth College and chair demonstrate that, free of government control, these appeals of the African and African American studies program. He produced this overall imperative. The book discusses the role is the author of Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in of such major characters as Superman, Wonder Woman, and Antebellum Narrative and editor of Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays Uncle Sam along with a host of such minor characters as kid on Autobiography and Graphic Novels. gangs and superhero sidekicks. It even considers novelty and small presses, providing a well-rounded look at the many ways FEBRUARY, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 35 b&w illustrations, that comic books served as popular propaganda. bibliography, index Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-1025-0 TRISCHA GOODNOW Ebook available , Monroe, Oregon, is a professor of speech communication in the School of Arts and Commu- nication at Oregon State University and has published books on parliamentary debate and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. JAMES J. KIMBLE, East Hanover, New Jersey, associate pro- fessor of communication and the arts at Seton Hall Univer- sity, is the author of Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda and Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II, as well as the writer and co-producer of the feature documentary Scrappers: How the Heartland Won World War II.

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Medievalist Comics and The British Superhero the American Century Chris Murray

Chris Bishop hris Murray reveals the largely unknown and he comic book has become an essential icon of the rather surprising history American Century, an era defined by optimism in of the British superhero. It is often the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic Cthought that Britain did not have value of democracy and modernization. For many, the Middle its own superheroes, yet Murray TAges stand as an antithesis to these ideals, and yet medievalist demonstrates that there were a great comics have emerged and endured, even thrived alongside their many in Britain and that they were superhero counterparts. Chris Bishop presents a reception often used as a way to comment on history of medievalist comics, setting them against a greater the relationship between Britain and backdrop of modern American history. America. Sometimes they emulated From its genesis in the 1930s to the present, Bishop the style of American comics, but surveys the medievalist comic, its stories, characters, settings, they also frequently became sites of and themes drawn from the European Middle Ages. Hal resistance to perceived American Foster’s Prince Valiant emerged from an America at odds with TRACKING THE political and cultural hegemony, monarchy, but still in love with King SURPRISING RISE drawing upon satire and parody as a WHY SO MANY Arthur. Green Arrow remains the OF THE BRITISH means of critique. continuation of a long fascination SUPERHERO Murray illustrates that the AMERICAN COMICS with Robin Hood that has become superhero genre is a blend of several FANS AVIDLY FOLLOW as central to the American identity influences and that in British MEDIEVAL HEROES as it was to the British. The Mighty comics, these influences are quite different from those in Thor reflects the legacy of Germanic America, resulting in some contrasting approaches to the figure migration into the United States. of the superhero. He identifies the origins of the superhero The rugged individualism of Conan the Barbarian owes more and supervillain in nineteenth-century popular culture such to the western cowboy than it does to the continental knight- as the penny dreadfuls and boy’s weeklies and in science fiction errant. In the narrative of Red Sonja, we can trace a parallel writing of the 1920s and 1930s. From the emergence of British history of feminism. Bishop regards these comics as not merely superheroes in the 1940s, the advent of “fake” American happenchance, but each success (Prince Valiant and The Mighty comics, and the reformatting of reprinted material to the Thor) or failure (Beowulf: Dragon Slayer) as a result and an British Invasion of the 1980s, and the pivotal roles in American indicator of certain American preoccupations amid a larger superhero comics and film production held by British artists cultural context. today, this book will challenge views about British superheroes Intrinsically modernist paragons of pop-culture ephemera, and the comics’ creators who fashioned them. American comics have ironically continued to engage with the Murray brings to light a gallery of such comics heroes as European Middle Ages. Bishop illuminates some of the ways in the Amazing Mr X, Powerman, Streamline, Captain Zenith, which we use an imagined past to navigate the present and plots Electroman, Mr Apollo, Masterman, Captain Universe, some possible futures as we valiantly shape a new century. Marvelman, Kelly’s Eye, Steel Claw, the Purple Hood, Captain Britain, Supercats, Bananaman, Paradax, Jack Staff, and CHRIS BISHOP, Canberra, Australia, teaches classics at the SuperBob. He reminds us of the significance of many such Australian National University. He has published widely on creators and artists as Len Fullerton, Jock McCail, Jack Glass, the history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, as well Denis Gifford, Bob Monkhouse, Dennis M. Reader, Mick as comic book studies. In 2012 Bishop was awarded a Kluge Anglo, Brendan McCarthy, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Dave Fellowship at the Library of Congress for his research. Gibbons, and Mark Millar.

OCTOBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index CHRIS MURRAY, Dundee, Scotland, is senior lecturer in Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-0850-9 comics studies at the University of Dundee and director of the Ebook available Scottish Centre for Comics Studies. Murray is the author of Champions of the Oppressed: Superhero Comics, Popular Culture, and Propaganda in America during World War II. He is also editor of UniVerse Comics, coeditor of Studies in Comics (Intellect), and co-organizer of the International Comics and Graphic Novel conference.

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The Comic Book Superheroes on NEW IN NEW IN Film Adaptation Paperback World Screens Paperback Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Edited by Rayna Denison and Leading Genre Rachel Mizsei-Ward

Liam Burke Contributions by Mary J. Ainslie, Rayna Denison, Jochen Ecke, Vincent M. Gaine, n the summer of 2000 Lincoln Geraghty, Patrick Gill, Derek X-Men surpassed all box Johnston, Daniel Martin, Rachel Mizsei- Ward, Kevin Patrick, and Iain Robert Smith office expectations and usherIed in an era of unprecedented uch superheroes as production of comic book film Superman and Spider- adaptations. This trend, now in Man have spread all over its second decade, has blossomed the world. As this edited volume into Hollywood’s leading genre. shows, many national cultures have From superheroes to Spartan S created or reimagined the idea of warriors, The Comic Book Film the superhero, while the realm of Adaptation offers the first dedicated superheroes now contains many study to examine how comic books ESSAYS EXPLORING icons whose histories borrow moved from the fringes of popular THE MANY WAYS IN from local folklore and legends. culture to the center of mainstream THE FIRST STUDY OF WHICH SUPERHEROES Consequently, the superhero needs film production. reconsideration, to be regarded as HOW THE COMIC Through in-depth analysis, NO LONGER BELONG part of both local and global culture BOOK MOVED TO industry interviews, and audience SOLELY TO AMERICA as well as examined for the rich research, this book charts the cause- THE CENTER OF meanings that such broad origins and-effect of this influential trend. HOLLYWOOD FILM and re-workings create. It considers the cultural traumas, This collection stands out as the first concentrated PRODUCTION IN business demands, and digital attempt to think through the meanings and significance of the possibilities that Hollywood faced at THE TWENTY-FIRST superhero, not only as a product of culture in the United States, the dawn of the twenty-first century. CENTURY but as a series of local, transnational, and global exchanges in The industry managed to meet these popular media. Through analysis of mainly film, television, and challenges by exploiting comics and computer screens, contributors offer three challenges to the their existing audiences. However, studios were caught off- idea of the American superhero: transnational reimagining of guard when these comic book fans, empowered by digital media, superhero culture, emerging local superheroes, and the use of began to influence the success of these adaptations. Nonetheless, local superheroes to undermine dominant political ideologies. filmmakers soon developed strategies to take advantage of this The essays explore the shifting transnational meanings of intense fanbase, while codifying the trend into a more lucrative Doctor Who, Thor, and the Phantom, as reimagined in world genre, the comic book movie, which appealed to an even wider culture. Other chapters chart the rise of local superheroes from audience. Central to this vibrant trend is a comic aesthetic in India, the Middle East, Thailand, and South Korea. These which filmmakers utilize digital filmmaking technologies to explorations demonstrate how far superheroes have traveled to engage with the language and conventions of comics like never inspire audiences worldwide. before. The Comic Book Film Adaptation explores this unique moment RAYNA DENISON, Norwich, United Kingdom, is a lecturer in which cinema is stimulated, challenged, and enriched by the and researcher specializing in Asian media cultures at the once-dismissed medium of comics. University of East Anglia. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Mechademia, Japan LIAM BURKE, Melbourne, Australia, is a media studies lecturer Forum, and Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. RACHEL at Swinburne University of Technology. His publications MIZSEI-WARD, Norwich, United Kingdom, graduated with her include the Pocket Essential Superhero Movies and the edited PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2013. Her work has collection Fan Phenomena: Batman. appeared in 21st Century Gothic and Comparative American Studies.

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Conversations with Conversations with Maurice Sendak Robert Stone

Edited by Peter C. Kunze Edited by William Heath

aurice Sendak (1928– ver since A Hall of Mirrors 2012) stands out as one depicted the wild side of New of the most respected, Orleans in the 1960s, Robert influential authors of the twentieth Stone (1937–2015) has situated Mcentury. Though primarily known Enovels where America has shattered as a children’s book writer and and the action is at a pitch. In Dog illustrator, he did not limit himself Soldiers, he covered the Vietnam to these areas. He saw himself first War and drug smuggling. A Flag and foremost as an artist. In this for Sunrise captured revolutionary collection of interviews—the first of discontent in Central America. its kind—Sendak presents himself Children of Light exposed the crass as a writer, illustrator, set designer, values of Hollywood. Outerbridge and librettist. From his early work Reach depicted how existential with Randall Jarrell and Ruth Krauss angst can lead to a longing for “YOU CANNOT WRITE through his later work with Tony “MY MESSAGE IS heroic transcendence. The clash FOR CHILDREN. Kushner and Spike Jonze, Sendak NOT DESPAIR; MY of religions in Jerusalem drove worked as a collaborator with a Damascus Gate. Traditional town- THEY’RE MUCH TOO MESSAGE IS, FIND passion for the arts. gown tensions amid twenty-first- OUT HOW BAD IT COMPLICATED. YOU The interviews here, many century culture wars propelled Death CAN ONLY WRITE of which are hard to find or GETS AND BEGIN of the Black-Haired Girl. BOOKS THAT ARE OF previously unpublished, span from FROM THERE. . . . THE Stone’s reputation rests on 1966 through 2011. They show VERY ACT OF WRITING his mastery of the craft of fiction. INTEREST TO THEM.” not only Sendak’s shifting artistic These interviews are replete with interests, but also changes in how he IS A POSITIVE ACT.” insights about the creative process understood himself and his craft. What emerges is a portrait of as he responds with disarming an author and an artist who was alternately solemn and playful, honesty to probing questions about his major works. Stone congenial and irascible, sophisticated and populist. The man also has fascinating things to say about his remarkable life—a who showed millions of children and adults alike what’s cooking schizophrenic mother, a stint in the navy, his involvement with in the night kitchen and where the wild things are, Sendak Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, and his presence at the creation remains an American original who redefined the picture book of the counterculture. From the publication of A Hall of Mirrors and changed children’s literature—and its readers—forever. until his death in 2015, Stone was a major figure in American literature. PETER C. KUNZE, Austin, Texas, is a doctoral student in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of WILLIAM HEATH, Frederick, Maryland, is professor emeritus Texas. His work has appeared in Children’s Literature Association of English at Mount Saint Mary’s University. He is author of a Quarterly and The Lion and the Unicorn. book of poems, The Walking Man; three novels, The Children Bob Moses Led; Blacksnake’s Path: The True Adventures of William Wells; OCTOBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, and Devil Dancer; and a work of history, William Wells and the index Struggle for the Old Northwest. Printed casebinding $55.00S 978-1-4968-0870-7 Ebook available DECEMBER, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, Literary Conversations Series index Printed casebinding $55.00S 978-1-4968-0891-2 Ebook available Literary Conversations Series

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Conversations with Conversations with NEW IN Ron Rash Stanley Kunitz Paperback

Edited by Mae Miller Claxton and Rain Newcomb Edited by Kent P. Ljungquist

ince the publication of obert Lowell said of Serena in 2008 earned him the poetry of Stanley a nomination for the PEN/ Kunitz (1905–2006) Faulkner fiction prize, Ron Rash (b. and his evolving artistry, “He S1953) has gained attention as one Ragain tops the crowd—he surpasses of the South’s finest writers. Rash himself, the old iron brought draws upon his family’s history in to the white heat of simplicity.” Appalachia, where most members The interviews and conversations have worked with their hands as contained in this volume derive farmers or millworkers. In the Grit from four decades of Kunitz’s Lit or Rough South genre, Rash distinguished career. They touch on maintains a prominent place as a aesthetic motifs in his poetry, the skilled craftsman and triple threat, roots of his work, his friendships publishing four collections of in the sister arts of painting and “LANDSCAPE IS poetry, six short story collections, “POETRY, I HAVE sculpture, his interactions with DESTINY.” and six novels. Though best known INSISTED, IS Lowell and Theodore Roethke, and as an Appalachian writer, Rash’s his comments on a host of poets: ULTIMATELY reach has grown to extend well John Keats, Walt Whitman, Randall beyond Appalachia and the American South, spreading to an MYTHOLOGY, THE Jarrell, Wallace Stevens, and Anna international audience. TELLING OF THE Akhmatova. Conversations with Ron Rash collects twenty-two interviews SOUL’S ADVENTURE IN Kunitz emerged from a mid- with the award-winning author and provides a look into Rash’s sized industrial town in central TIME AND HISTORY.” writing career from his first collection of short stories,The Night Massachusetts, surviving family the New Jesus Fell to Earth in 1994 through his 2015 novel, Above tragedy and a sense of personal the Waterfall. The collection includes four interviews from outside isolation and loneliness, to become an eloquent spokesman for the United States, two of which appear in English for the first poetry and for the power of the human imagination. Kunitz has time. Spanning sixteen years, these interviews demonstrate the commented, “If we want to know what it felt like to be alive at any disciplined writing process of an expert writer, Rash’s views of given moment in the long odyssey of the race, it is to poetry we literature on a local and a global scale, his profound respect for must turn.” His own odyssey from “metaphysical loneliness” to the craft of the written word, and his ongoing goal to connect a sense of community with fellow writers and artists—by building with his readers. institutions like Poets House and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts—is ever present in these interviews. MAE MILLER CLAXTON, Cullowhee, North Carolina, is an associate professor at Western Carolina University. She teaches KENT P. LJUNGQUIST, Jefferson, Massachusetts, is a professor Appalachian, Southern, and American literature. She is the of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the editor editor of Conversations with Dorothy Allison (published by University of Antebellum Authors in New York and the author of The Grand and Press of Mississippi). RAIN NEWCOMB, Asheville, North the Fair: Poe’s Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques. Carolina, is a lecturer at Western Carolina University. DECEMBER, 234 pages, 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index DECEMBER, 212 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0961-2 index Ebook available Printed casebinding $55.00S 978-1-4968-0896-7 Literary Conversations Series Ebook available Literary Conversations Series

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Conversations with Conversations with NEW IN NEW IN William Gibson Paperback Michael Chabon Paperback

Edited by Patrick A. Smith Edited by Brannon Costello

iterary scholar Larry ince the publication of his McCaffery wrote, first novel, The Mysteries of “After reading Pittsburgh, launched him Neuromancer for the first time, to fame, Michael Chabon (b. 1963) LI knew I had seen the future of Shas become one of contemporary [science fiction] (and maybe of literature’s most acclaimed novelists literature in general), and its name by pursuing his singular vision was William Gibson.” McCaffery across all boundaries of genre was right. Gibson’s 1984 debut is and medium. A firm believer that one of the most celebrated SF novels reading even the most challenging of the last half century, and in a literature should be a fundamentally career spanning more than three pleasurable experience, Chabon decades, the American Canadian has produced an astonishingly “IT’S NOT REALLY science fiction writer and reluctant diverse body of work that includes futurist responsible for introducing “MY ONLY GOAL, detective novels, weird tales of ABOUT AN IMAGINED “cyberspace” into the lexicon has EVER, REALLY, IS TO horror, alternate history science FUTURE. IT’S A WAY published nine other novels. fiction, and rollicking chronicles TRY TO WRITE THE OF TRYING TO COME Editor Patrick A. Smith draws of swashbuckling adventure KIND OF BOOK THAT TO TERMS WITH THE the twenty-three interviews in alongside tender coming-of-age this collection from a variety of I THINK I WOULD stories, sprawling social novels, and AWE AND TERROR media and sources—print and LIKE TO READ—AND I narratives of intense introspection. INSPIRED IN ME BY online journals and fanzines, Uniting them all is Chabon’s utterly READ FOR PLEASURE.” THE WORLD IN WHICH academic journals, newspapers, distinct prose style—exuberant and blogs, and podcasts. Myriad topics graceful, sometimes ironic but WE LIVE.” include Gibson’s childhood in never cynical. His work has earned accolades ranging from the the American South and his early Pulitzer Prize to science fiction’s Hugo and Nebula Awards. adulthood in Canada, with travel in Europe; his chafing Conversations with Michael Chabon collects eighteen revealing against the traditional SF mold, the origins of “cyberspace,” interviews with the renowned author of The Amazing Adventures of and the unintended consequences (for both the author and Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and other much- society) of changing the way we think about technology; and the admired works. Spanning nearly twenty years and drawn from writing process and the reader’s role in a new kind of fiction. science fiction fan magazines and literary journals alike, these Gibson (b. 1948) takes on branding and fashion, celebrity interviews shed new light on the central concerns of Chabon’s culture, social networking, the post-9/11 world, future uses of fiction, including the importance of dismantling the false technology, and the isolation and alienation engendered by new divide between literary and lowbrow, his evolving relationship ways of solving old problems. The conversations also provide with Jewish culture and literature, the unique properties of overviews of his novels, short fiction, and nonfiction. male friendship, and the complexities of race in contemporary America. These interviews are essential reading for anyone PATRICK A. SMITH, Havana, Florida, is professor of English seeking a better understanding of the life and work of an at Bainbridge State College in Bainbridge, Georgia. His author who has been instrumental in defining the landscape of previous books and edited collections include“The true bones of contemporary American fiction. my life”: Essays on the Fiction of Jim Harrison; Tim O’Brien: A Critical Companion; and Conversations with Tim O’Brien (published by BRANNON COSTELLO, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is associate University Press of Mississippi), among others. professor of English and director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts program at Louisiana State University. He is the OCTOBER, 296 pages, 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index editor of Howard Chaykin: Conversations and coeditor of Comics Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0968-1 and the U.S. South, both published by University Press of Ebook available Mississippi. Literary Conversations Series OCTOBER, 204 pages, 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0962-9 Ebook available Literary Conversations Series

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Rough South, Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and NEW IN Rural South Paperback Boudreaux and Thibodeaux Region and Class in Recent Louisiana Children’s Folklore and Play Southern Literature Jeanne Pitre Soileau

Edited by Jean W. Cash and Keith Perry eanne Soileau, a teacher in New Orleans and south Contributions by Barbara Bennett, Louisiana for more than forty years, examines how Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Erik Bledsoe, children’s folklore, especially among African Jean W. Cash, Linda Byrd Cook, Thomas Americans, has changed. From the tumult of E. Dasher, Robert Donahoo, Peter Farris, J integration to the present, her experience afforded Richard Gaughran, William Giraldi, unique opportunities to observe children as they played. Rebecca Godwin, Joan Wylie Hall, Marcus With integration in New Orleans during the 1960s, Soileau Hamilton, Gary Hawkins, David K. Jeffrey, Emily Langhorne, Shawn E. Miller, Wade notes how children began to play with one another almost Newhouse, L. Lamar Nisly, bes Stark immediately. Children taught each other play routines, chants, Spangler, Joe Samuel Starnes, and Scott jokes, jump-rope rhymes, cheers, taunts, and teases—all the Hamilton Suter folk games that happen in normal play on the street and playground. When HOW CHILDREN ssays in Rough South, Rural adults—the judges and attorneys, the South describe and discuss HAVE USED parents, and the politicians—haggled the work of southern writers STORY AND PLAY A CRITICAL COMPAN- and shouted, children began to hold who began their careers in the TO NAVIGATE hands in a circle, fall down together ION TO THE STRIKING Elate twentieth and early twenty- to “Ring around the Rosie,” and tease PROBLEMS AND VARIETY OF CONTEM- first centuries. They fall into two each other in new and creative ways. categories. Some, born into the DELINEATE ETHNIC PORARY SOUTHERN Children’s ability to adapt can working class, strove to become BOUNDARIES be seen not only in their response to LITERATURE writers and learned without the social change, but in how they adopt benefit of higher education, such and utilize pop culture and technology. Vast technological writers as Larry Brown and William Gay. Others came from changes in the last third of the twentieth century influenced lower- or middle-class backgrounds and became writers the way children sang, danced, played, and interacted. Soileau through practice and education: Dorothy Allison, Tom catalogs these changes and studies how games evolve and Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, Clyde Edgerton, Kaye Gibbons, transform as much as they are preserved. She includes several Silas House, Jill McCorkle, Chris Offutt, Ron Rash, Lee topics of study: oral narratives and songs, jokes and tales, Smith, Brad Watson, Daniel Woodrell, and Steve Yarbrough. and teasing formulae gleaned from mostly African American Their twenty-first-century colleagues are Wiley Cash, Peter sources. Because much of the field work took place on public Farris, Skip Horack, Michael Farris Smith, Barb Johnson, and school playgrounds, this body of oral narratives remains of Jesmyn Ward. particular interest to teachers, folklorists, linguists, and those In his seminal article, Erik Bledsoe distinguishes Rough who study play. South writers from such writers as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. These writers undercut stereotypes, forcing readers to In the end, Soileau shows that despite the restrictions of see the working poor differently. air-conditioning, shorter recess periods, ever-increasing hours The next pieces begin with those on Harry Crews and of television watching, the growing popularity of video games, Cormac McCarthy, major influences on an entire generation. and carefully scripted after-school activities, many children in Nearly all of the writers hold a reverence for the South’s south Louisiana sustain traditional games. At the same time, landscape and its inhabitants as well as an affinity for realistic they invent varied and clever new ones. As Soileau observes, depictions of setting and characters. children strive through their folk play to learn how to fit into a rapidly changing society. JEAN W. CASH, Broadway, Virginia, is professor emerita of English at James Madison University. She is the author of JEANNE PITRE SOILEAU, New Iberia, Louisiana, was born Flannery O’Connor: A Life; coeditor (with Keith Perry) of Larry in New Orleans and taught in Louisiana for forty-seven years. Brown and the Blue Collar South: A Collection of Critical Essays; and Though retired, she is still actively collecting folklore. Her work author of Larry Brown: A Writer’s Life, which won the Eudora has appeared in Louisiana Folklore Miscellany and Western Folklore. Welty Prize and the C. Hugh Holman Award. KEITH PERRY, Ringgold, Georgia, is associate professor of English at Dalton JANUARY, 192 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 18 b&w illustrations, 1 map, State College. He is the author of The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. appendices, bibliography, index Long and the Modern American Novel. 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Full Court Press The Good Doctors Mississippi State University, the Press, and the The Medical Committee for BACK IN Print Battle to Integrate College Basketball Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care Jason A. Peterson John Dittmer uring the civil rights era, Mississippi was caught in n the summer of 1964 the hateful embrace of medical professionals, a white caste system that enforced mostly white and northern, segregation. Rather than troubling D organizedI the Medical Committee the Closed Society, state news for Human Rights (MCHR) to media, on the whole, marched in provide care and support for civil lockstep or, worse, promoted the rights activists organizing black continued subservience of blacks. voters in Mississippi. They left Surprisingly, challenges from their lives and lucrative private Mississippi’s college basketball courts practices to march beside and tend questioned segregation’s validity the wounds of demonstrators from and its gentleman’s agreement that Freedom Summer, the March on prevented college teams in the HOW BASKETBALL Selma, and the Chicago Democratic Magnolia State from playing against Convention of 1968. Galvanized LOOSENED THE GRIP integrated foes. THE EXTRAORDINARY and sometimes radicalized by their OF SEGREGATION Mississippi State University TALE OF HEALTH firsthand view of disenfranchised stood at the forefront of this battle AND ITS PROPONENTS CARE PROFESSIONALS communities, the MCHR soon for equality in the state with the IN THE MEDIA WHO FOUGHT THE expanded its mission to encompass school’s successful college basketball a range of causes from poverty to program. From 1959 through 1963, CRIPPLING EFFECTS the war in Vietnam. They later took the Maroons won four Southeastern Conference basketball OF SEGREGATION on the whole of the United States championships and created a dynasty in the South’s preeminent AND CHALLENGED healthcare system. MCHR doctors college athletic conference. However, in all four title-winning THE MEDICAL soon realized fighting segregation seasons, the press feverishly debated the merits of a National would mean not just caring for white Collegiate Athletic Association appearance for the Maroons, ESTABLISHMENT volunteers, but also exposing and culminating in Mississippi State University’s participation in the correcting shocking inequalities in integrated 1963 NCAA Championship. segregated health care. They pioneered community health plans Full Court Press examines news articles, editorials, and and brought medical care to underserved or unserved areas. columns published in Mississippi’s newspapers during the Though education was the most famous battleground for eight-year existence of the gentleman’s agreement that barred integration, the appalling injustice of segregated health care black participation, the challenges posed by Mississippi levelled equally devastating consequences. Award-winning State University, and the subsequent integration of college historian John Dittmer, author of the classic civil rights history basketball. While the majority of reporters opposed any effort to Local People, has written an insightful and moving account of a integrate, a segment of sports journalists, led by the charismatic group of idealists who put their careers in the service of the Jimmie McDowell of the Jackson State Times, emerged as bold motto “Health Care Is a Human Right.” advocates for equality. Full Court Press highlights an ideological metamorphosis within the press during the civil rights JOHN DITTMER, Fillmore, Indiana, is the author of Black movement. The media, which had long minimized the struggle Georgia in the Progressive Era and Local People: The Struggle for Civil of blacks, slowly transformed into an industry that considered Rights in Mississippi, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize. He has the plight of black Mississippians on equal footing with whites. taught in the history departments at Tougaloo College, Brown University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and JASON A. PETERSON, Summerville, South Carolina, DePauw University, where he is professor emeritus. is assistant professor of communication at Charleston

Southern University. A former journalist and public relations FEBRUARY, 344 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 34 b&w illustrations, index practitioner, Peterson has published in American Journalism and in Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-1035-9 the book, From Jack Johnson to LeBron James: Essays on Sports, Race, Ebook available and the Media.

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To Write in the Mississippi NEW IN The Long, Hot Summer BACK IN Light of Freedom Paperback Print The Newspapers of the 1964 William McCord Mississippi Freedom Schools Introduction by Françoise N. Hamlin n 1964, sociologist Edited by William Sturkey and Jon N. Hale William McCord, long interested in movements ore than fifty years after forI social change in the United Freedom Summer, To States, began a study of Mississippi’s Write in the Light of Freedom Summer. Stanford Freedom offers a glimpse into the University, where McCord taught, Mhearts of the African American had been the site of recruiting youths who attended the Mississippi efforts for student volunteers for Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the Freedom Summer project by the most successful initiatives of such activists as Robert Moses and Freedom Summer, more than forty Allard Lowenstein. Described by his Freedom Schools opened doors wife as “an old-fashioned liberal,” to thousands of young African McCord believed that he should both THE ORIGINAL American students. Here they examine and participate in events in learned civics, politics, and history, SOCIOLOGICAL Mississippi. He accompanied student A COLLECTION AND curriculum that helped them instead ENCOUNTER workers and black Mississippians to courthouses and Freedom Houses, EXAMINATION OF THE of the degrading lessons supporting WITH THE RIVEN segregation and Jim Crow and and he attracted police attention as CREATIVE LITERARY sanctioned by White Citizen’s DEMOGRAPHICS OF he studied the mechanisms of white WORK OF FREEDOM Councils. Young people enhanced THE CLOSED SOCIETY supremacy and the black nonviolent campaign against racial segregation. SCHOOL STUDENTS their self-esteem and gained a new outlook on the future. At more Published in 1965 by W. W. Norton, his book, Mississippi: DISCOVERING than a dozen of these schools, The Long, Hot Summer, is one of the first examinations of the events PATHWAYS TO RACIAL students wrote, edited, printed, and of 1964 by a scholar. It provides a compelling, detailed account JUSTICE published their own newspapers. of Mississippi people and places, including the thousands of For more than five decades, the student workers who found in the state both opportunities and Mississippi Freedom Schools have served as powerful models of severe challenges. McCord’s work sought to communicate to a broad audience the depth of repression in Mississippi. Here educational activism. Little has been published that documents was evidence of the need for federal action to address what he black Mississippi youths’ responses to this profound experience recognized as both national and southern failures to secure until now. civil rights for black Americans. His field work and activism in

Mississippi offered a perspective that few other academics or WILLIAM STURKEY, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is a other white Americans had shared. postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the Historian Françoise N. Hamlin provides a substantial University of North Carolina. His work has appeared in introduction that sets McCord’s work within the context of the Journal of Mississippi History and the Journal of African American other narratives of Freedom Summer and explores McCord’s History. JON N. HALE, Charleston, South Carolina, is an broader career that combined distinguished scholarship with assistant professor at the College of Charleston. His work has social activism. appeared in the Journal of African American History, History of

Education Quarterly, South Carolina Historical Magazine, and Journal WILLIAM McCORD (1930–1992), a sociologist with interests of Social Studies Research. that ranged from American urban and social conditions to international economic development, was the author of SEPTEMBER, 232 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 25 b&w illustrations, index seventeen books and scores of essays and articles. He was both Paper $25.00T 978-1-4968-0965-0 an observer and participant in Mississippi during the events Ebook available of Freedom Summer. FRANÇOISE N. HAMLIN, Providence, Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies Rhode Island, is an associate professor in the departments of history and Africana studies at Brown University. She is the author of Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II and coeditor of These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship.

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The Last Lawyer Joe T. Patterson and the The Fight to Save Death NEW IN NEW IN Row Inmates Paperback White South’s Dilemma Paperback Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement John Temple Robert E. Luckett Jr. “For years, lawyer Ken Rose has fought to save wrongly- condemned prisoners; chronicling the story of Rose and death s Mississippi’s attorney general row inmate Bo Jones, author Temple (Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s from 1956 to 1969, Joe T. Office) finds high drama in Raleigh penitentiaries, North Carolina Patterson led the legal defense backroads, cramped law offices, and sweltering courtrooms. for Jim Crow in the state. He was Reviewing the original 1987 murder, the consequent trials and Ainaugurated for his first term two endless hearings, Temple creates an intimate portrait of Rose and months before the launch of the his Center for Death Penalty Litigation as they trudge through a Sovereignty Commission—charged “to decade of work on this case, a typical example that pits the odds protect the sovereignty of Mississippi and public opinion against them: ‘To question capital punishment from encroachment thereon by the was to appear soft on crime. . . . In court, one well-known district federal government”—which made attorney sported a golden lapel pin shaped like a hangman’s manifest a century-old states’ rights noose.’ Ultimately, Temple’s account is a stand-up-and-cheer ideology couched in the rhetoric of account of one man standing up for justice.” massive resistance. Despite the dubious —Publishers Weekly, starred review legal foundations of that agenda, HOW WHITE Patterson supported the organization’s he Last Lawyer is the true, RESISTANCE mission from the start and served as an inside story of how an ex-officio leader on its board for the OPERATED AND idealistic legal genius and rest of his life. his diverse band of investigators and ADAPTED TO THE Patterson was also a card-carrying Tfellow attorneys fought to overturn a SWEEPING FORCES OF member of the segregationist Citizens’ Council and, in his own words, had client’s final sentence. RACIAL CHANGE Ken Rose has handled more “spent many hours and driven many capital appeals cases than almost miles advocating the basic principles any other attorney in the United for which the Citizens’ Councils were originally organized.” Few States. The Last Lawyer chronicles ever doubted his Jim Crow credentials. That is until September Rose’s decade-long defense of Bo 1962 and the integration of the University of Mississippi by James Jones, a North Carolina farmhand Meredith. convicted of a 1987 murder. Rose That fall Patterson stepped out of his entrenchment by called this his most frustrating case in defying a circle of white power brokers, but only to a point. THE STORY OF A twenty-five years, and it was one that His seeming acquiescence came at the height of the biggest TIRELESS LEGAL received scant attention from judges crisis for Mississippi’s racist order. Yet even after the Supreme Court decreed that Meredith must enter the university, SAMARITAN AND HIS or journalists. The Jones case bares the thorniest issues surrounding Patterson opposed any further desegregation and despised the WARFARE ON THE capital punishment. Inadequate legal federal intervention at Ole Miss. Still he faced a dilemma that INJUSTICE OF CAPITAL counsel, mental retardation, mental confronted all white southerners: how to maintain an artificially illness, and sketchy witness testimony elevated position for whites in southern society without resorting PUNISHMENT to violence or intimidation. Once the Supreme Court handed stymied Jones’s original defense. Yet down its decision in Meredith v. Fair, the state attorney general for many years, Rose’s advocacy gained no traction, and Bo Jones walked a strategic tightrope, looking to temper the ruling’s impact came within three days of his execution. without inciting the mob and without retreating any further. Patterson and others sought pragmatic answers to the dilemma JOHN TEMPLE, Morgantown, West Virginia, is the author of white southerners, not in the name of civil rights but to offer of Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office, published by University a more durable version of white power. His finesse paved the way Press of Mississippi. His most recent book, American Pain, was for future tactics employing duplicity and barely yielding social named a “Best Book of 2015” in the True Crime category change while deferring many dreams. by Suspense Magazine. Temple is an associate professor of journalism at the Reed College of Media at West Virginia ROBERT E. LUCKETT JR., Madison, Mississippi, is assistant University. Prior to teaching, Temple was a newspaper reporter professor of history and director of the Margaret Walker Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Greensboro, North Carolina; and for the Study of the African-American Experience at Jackson Tampa, Florida. More information about Temple and his books State University. His research has appeared in The Civil Rights can be found at www.johntemplebooks.com. Movement in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi), as well as in numerous journal articles. 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The Mississippi Trouble in Goshen NEW IN Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and NEW IN Secession Convention Paperback Marx in the Great Depression South Paperback Delegates and Deliberations in Politics and War, 1861-1865 Fred C. Smith

Timothy B. Smith he Great Depression emboldened Americans he Mississippi Secession to tolerate radical Convention is the first full experimentation in search of treatment of any secession Tsolutions to seemingly overwhelming convention to date. Studying the economic problems. Among the TMississippi convention of 1861 offers thorniest of those was rural southern insight into how and why southern poverty. In Trouble in Goshen, Fred C. states seceded and the effects of such Smith focuses on three communities a breech. Based largely on primary designed and implemented to meet sources, this book provides a unique that challenge. This book examines insight into the broader secession the economic and social theories— movement. and their histories—that resulted There was more to the in the creation and operation of secession convention than the mere the most aggressive and radical THE UNTOLD STORY experiments in the United States. THE FIRST EXAMINA- act of leaving the Union, which OF THREE NEW Trouble in Goshen chronicles TION OF THE ENTIRE was done only three days into the deliberations. The rest of the three- DEAL COOPERATIVE three communitarian experiments, CONVENTION AND both the administrative details and week January 1861 meeting as well as FARMS IN THE MOST THE MEN WHO an additional week in March saw the the struggles and reactions of the ECONOMICALLY clients. Smith covers the Tupelo DELIBERATED THERE delegates debate and pass a number of important ordinances that for CHALLENGED PLACES Homesteads in Mississippi, the a time governed the state. As seen IN THE SOUTH Dyess Colony in Arkansas, and the through the eyes of the delegates themselves, with rich research Delta Cooperative Farm, also in into each member, this book provides a compelling overview of Mississippi. The Tupelo Homesteads the entire proceeding. were created under the aegis of the tiny Division of Subsistence The effects of the convention gain the most analysis in Homesteads, a short-lived, “first New Deal” agency. Dyess this study, including the political processes that, after the Colony was the largest of the Resettlement Administration’s momentous vote, morphed into unlikely alliances. Those on efforts to transform failed farmers into Jeffersonian yeoman opposite ends of the secession question quickly formed new farmers. The third community, the Delta Cooperative Farm, political allegiances in a predominantly Confederate-minded a product of the active cooperation between the Socialist Party convention. These new political factions formed largely over of America and a cadre of liberal churchmen led by Reinhold the issues of central versus local authority, which quickly played Niebuhr, attempted to meld the pieties, passions, propaganda, into Confederate versus state issues during the Civil War. and theories of Jesus and Marx. In addition, author Timothy B. Smith considers the lasting The equipment, facilities, and management styles of consequences of defeat, looking into the effect secession the projects reveal a clearly delineated class order among the and war had on the delegates themselves and, by extension, poor. Trouble in Goshen demonstrates the class-conscious angst Mississippi. that enveloped three distinct levels of poverty and the struggles of plain folk to preserve their tenuous status and avoid overt TIMOTHY B. SMITH, Adamsville, Tennessee, teaches history at peasantry. the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of twelve books, including Mississippi in the Civil War: FRED C. SMITH,Tupelo, Mississippi, is visiting assistant The Home Front; and James Z. George: Mississippi’s Great Commoner professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. (both published by University Press of Mississippi). He is a contributor to Justice and Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism, and Cultural Transformation, and his work has appeared OCTOBER, 312 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 13 b&w illustrations, 5 maps, in the Journal of Mississippi History, Agricultural History, Florida appendices, bibliography, index Historical Quarterly, Southern Historian, and Mississippi History Now. Paper $25.00S 978-1-4968-0957-5 Ebook available NOVEMBER, 228 pages, 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0967-4 Ebook available

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Black marginalized groups shows how these discourses together are impacted by their common constructed the perception of the US Tand sometimes competing search government and of American Indian for equal rights has become communities. Such interactions— HOW MINORITY acutely important. Demographic though certainly not equal—illustrated GROUPS NEGOTIATE projections make it easy now the hybrid nature of Native-US rhet- oric in the nineteenth century. Both to imagine a future majority THORNY BUT CRITICAL A STUDY OF HOW THE governmental, colonizing discourse population of color in the United PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES UNITED STATES GOV- and indigenous, decolonizing dis- States. Minority Relations sets forth IN AMERICA ERNMENT ATTEMPTED course shaped arguments, construc- some of the issues involved in tions of identity, and rhetoric in the the interplay among members of TO DEFINE, DISPLACE, colonial relationship. various racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities. AND CONTROL American Indians and the Rhetoric Robert S. Chang initiated the Intergroup Conflict and INDIGENOUS PEOPLES of Removal and Allotment demonstrates Cooperation Project and invited historian Greg Robinson to how American Indians decolonized collaborate. The two brought together scholars from different WHILE AMERICAN dominant rhetoric through impeding backgrounds and disciplines to engage a set of interrelated INDIANS REFUSED TO removal and allotment policies. By questions confronting groups generally considered minorities. SURRENDER THEIR turning around the US government’s This collection strives to stimulate further thinking and narrative and inventing their own writing by social scientists, legal scholars, and policymakers VOICES tactics, American Indian communities on interminority connections. Particularly, scholars test the helped restyle their own identities as limits of intergroup cooperation and coalition building. For well as the government’s. During the first third of the twentieth marginalized groups, coalition building seems to offer a pathway century, American Indians lobbied for the successful passage of to addressing economic discrimination and reaching some the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and the Indian New Deal of measure of justice with regard to opportunities. The need for 1934, changing the relationship once again. coalitions also acknowledges a democratic process in which In the end, Native communities were granted increased racialized groups face significant difficulty gaining real political rhetorical power through decolonization, though the US power, despite such legislation as the Voting Rights Act. government retained an undeniable colonial influence through its territorial management of Natives. The Indian Citizenship Act and the Indian New Deal—as the conclusion of this book GREG ROBINSON, Montreal, Canada, a native of New York indicates—are emblematic of the prevalence of the duality of City, is professor of history at the Université du Québec à US citizenship that fused American Indians to the nation, yet Montréal. His books include the award-winning After Camp, segregated them on reservations. This duality of inclusion and A Tragedy of Democracy, and By Order of the President. ROBERT S. exclusion grew incrementally and persists now, as a lasting effect of CHANG, Mercer Island, Washington, is professor of law and nineteenth-century Native-US rhetorical relations. executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of Law. He is the JASON EDWARD BLACK, Northport, Alabama, is an associate author of Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State professor in rhetoric and public discourse and an affiliate and coeditor of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and the Law. professor in gender and race studies at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He is the coeditor of An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s JANUARY, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 5 b&w illustrations, Speeches and Writings and Arguments about Animal Ethics. His work has introduction, bibliography, index appeared in such journals as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric and Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-1045-8 Public Affairs, American Indian Quarterly, and American Indian Culture Ebook available and Research Journal.

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Prison Power Red Scare Racism How Prison Influenced the Movement NEW IN and Cold War Paperback for Black Liberation Black Radicalism Lisa M. Corrigan James Zeigler n the black liberation movement, imprisonment uring the early years emerged as a key rhetorical, of the Cold War, theoretical,I and media resource. racial segregation in Imprisoned activists developed the American South became tactics and ideology to counter white Dan embarrassing liability to the supremacy. Lisa M. Corrigan under- international reputation of the scores how imprisonment—a site for United States. For America both political and personal transfor- to present itself as a model of mation—shaped movement leaders democracy in contrast to the Soviet by influencing their political analysis Union’s totalitarianism, Jim Crow and organizational strategies. Prison needed to end. While the discourse became the critical space for the of anticommunism added the HOW ICONIC AUTO- transformation from civil rights to leverage of national security to BIOGRAPHIES FOUND Black Power, especially as southern A HISTORY OF the moral claims of the civil rights civil rights activists faced setbacks. movement, the proliferation of Red INCARCERATION Black Power activists produced ANTICOMMUNIST Scare rhetoric also imposed limits on PIVOTAL TO THE autobiographical writings, essays, RHETORIC AND ITS the socioeconomic changes necessary TRANSITION and letters about and from pris- IMPACT ON THE for real equality. on beginning with the early sit-in BETWEEN CIVIL BLACK FREEDOM Describing the ways movement. Examining the iconic anticommunism impaired the RIGHTS AND BLACK prison autobiographies of H. Rap STRUGGLE IN struggle for civil rights, James Zeigler POWER Brown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and AMERICA reconstructs how Red Scare rhetoric Assata Shakur, Corrigan conducts during the Cold War assisted the rhetorical analyses of these extremely popular though under- black freedom struggle’s demands for equal rights but labeled studied accounts of the Black Power movement. She introduces “un-American” calls for reparations. To track the power of this the notion of the “Black Power vernacular” as a term for the volatile discourse, Zeigler investigates how radical black artists prison memoirists’ rhetorical innovations, to explain how the and intellectuals managed to answer anticommunism with movement adapted to an increasingly hostile environment in critiques of Cold War culture. Stubbornly addressed to an both the Johnson and Nixon administrations. American public schooled in Red Scare hyperbole, black Through prison writings, these activists deployed radicalism insisted that antiracist politics require a leftist narrative features supporting certain tenets of Black Power, critique of capitalism. pride in blackness, disavowal of nonviolence, identification Zeigler examines publicity campaigns against Dr. Martin with the Third World, and identity strategies focused on Luther King Jr.’s alleged Communist Party loyalties and the black masculinity. Corrigan fills gaps between Black Power import of the Cold War in his oratory. He documents a Central historiography and prison studies by scrutinizing the rhetorical Intelligence Agency–sponsored anthology of ex-Communist forms and strategies of the Black Power ideology that arose from testimonials. He takes on the protest essays of Richard Wright prison politics. These discourses demonstrate how Black Power and C. L. R. James, as well as Frank Marshall Davis’s leftist activism shifted its tactics to regenerate, even after the FBI journalism. The uncanny return of Red Scare invective in sought to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the movement. reaction to President Obama’s election further substantiates anticommunism’s lasting rhetorical power as Zeigler discusses LISA M. CORRIGAN, Fayetteville, Arkansas, is an associate conspiracy theories that claim Davis groomed President Obama professor of communication, director of the gender studies to become a secret Communist. Long after playing a role in the program, and affiliate faculty in African and African American demise of Jim Crow, the Cold War Red Scare still contributes to studies and Latin American studies at the University of the persistence of racism in America. Arkansas. JAMES ZEIGLER, Norman, Oklahoma, is an assistant professor NOVEMBER, 208 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, index of English at the University of Oklahoma. Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-0907-0 Ebook available OCTOBER, 252 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 8 b&w illustrations, bibliography, Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series index Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0971-1 Ebook available Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

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Consuming Identity The Port Royal The Role of Food in Redefining the South NEW IN Experiment Paperback Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre A Case Study in Development

outherners love to talk Kevin Dougherty food, quickly revealing likes and dislikes, regional he Port Royal Experiment builds preferences, and their own delicious on classic scholarship to Sstories. Because the topic often present not a historical crosses lines of race, class, gender, narrative but a study of what is and region, food supplies a common Tnow called development and fuel to launch discussion. Consuming nation building. The Port Identity sifts through the self- Royal Experiment was a joint definitions, allegiances, and bonds governmental and private effort made possible and strengthened begun during the Civil War to through the theme of southern transition former slaves to freedom foodways. The book focuses on and self-sufficiency. Port Royal HOW FOOD SERVES the role food plays in building Harbor and the Sea Islands off identities, accounting for the the coast of South Carolina were AS A RHETORICAL messages food sends about who we AN EXAMINATION OF liberated by Union Troops in CATALYST FOR are, how we see ourselves, and how 1861. As the Federal advance THE EMANCIPATED DISCUSSION IN A we see others. While many volumes began, the white plantation owners ISLANDS OF THE CULTURE THAT LOVES examine southern food, this one is and residents fled, abandoning the first to focus on food’s rhetorical CAROLINA COAST approximately 10,000 black slaves. TO EAT, SHARE, AND qualities and the effect that it can AND HOW THEIR Several private northern charity TALK have on culture. organizations stepped in to help The volume examines southern HISTORY SHEDS LIGHT the former slaves become self- food stories that speak to the identity of the region, explain ON THE DIFFICULTIES sufficient. Nonetheless, the Port how food helps to build identities, and explore how it enables OF NATION BUILDING Royal Experiment was only a mixed cultural exchange. Food acts rhetorically, with what we choose success and was contested by efforts to eat and serve sending distinct messages. It also serves a to restore the status quo of white vital identity-building function, factoring heavily into our dominance. Return to home rule then undid much of what the memories, narratives, and understanding of who we are. Finally, experiment accomplished. because food and the tales surrounding it are so important The Port Royal Experiment divides into ten chapters, each of to southerners, the rhetoric of food offers a significant and which is designed to treat a particular aspect of the experience. meaningful way to open up dialogue in the region. By sharing Topics include planning considerations, philanthropic and celebrating both foodways and the food itself, southerners society activity, civil society, economic development, political are able to revel in shared histories and traditions. In this development, and resistance. Each chapter presents the case way individuals find a common language despite the divisions study in the context of more recent developmental and nation- of race and class that continue to plague the south. The rich building efforts in such places as Bosnia, Somalia, Kosovo, subject of southern fare serves up a significant starting point for Iraq, and Afghanistan and incorporates recent scholarship understanding the powerful rhetorical potential of all food. in the field. Modern readers will see that the challenges that faced the Port Royal Experiment remain relevant even as their ASHLI QUESINBERRY STOKES, Charlotte, North Carolina, solutions remain elusive. is an associate professor in communication studies and the director of the Center for the Study of the New South KEVIN DOUGHERTY, Charleston, South Carolina, is a tactical at University of North Carolina–Charlotte. She is the co- officer and adjunct professor at The Citadel. He is the author author of Global Public Relations: Spanning Borders, Spanning of thirteen books, including The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: A Cultures. WENDY ATKINS-SAYRE, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Military Analysis, Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience, is an associate professor in communication studies and the and Weapons of Mississippi, all published by University Press of director of the Speaking Center at the University of Southern Mississippi. Mississippi. She is coeditor of Communicating Advice: Peer Tutoring and Communication Practice. NOVEMBER, 224 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 8 b&w illustrations, 1 map, bibliography, index NOVEMBER, 236 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 15 b&w illustrations, Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0966-7 bibliography, index Ebook available Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-0918-6 Ebook available

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The Black Island at War NEW IN Puerto Rico in the Crucible NEW IN Carib Wars Paperback of the Second World War Paperback Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna Edited by Jorge Rodríguez Beruff and José L. Bolívar Fresneda Christopher Taylor Contributions by Luis Rosario Albert, Fitzroy André Baptiste, Jorge Rodríguez Beruff, n The Black Carib Wars, César Ayala Casás, Rafael Chabrán, Ligia Christopher Taylor offers T. Domenech, José L. Bolívar Fresneda, the most thoroughly Michael Janeway, and Mayra Rosario Urrutia researchedI history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve espite Puerto Rico being their freedom on the island of St. the hub of the United Vincent. States’ naval response Today, thousands of Garifuna to the German blockade of the people live in Honduras, Belize, Caribbean, there is very little Guatemala, Nicaragua, and the D published scholarship on the island’s United States, preserving their heavy involvement in World War unique culture and speaking a AN ILLUMINATING II. Recently, a new generation language that directly descends from of scholars has been compiling THE MOST DETAILED that spoken in the Caribbean at the STUDY OF THE interdisciplinary research with fresh HISTORY OF THE time of Columbus. All trace their CARIBBEAN ISLAND’S insights about the profound wartime origins back to St. Vincent where BLACK CARIBS OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO changes, which in turn generated their ancestors were native Carib THE AMERICAN WAR conditions for the rapid economic, ST. VINCENT Indians and shipwrecked or runaway social, and political development of West African slaves—hence the name EFFORT postwar Puerto Rico. by which they were known to French and British colonialists: Island at War brings together Black Caribs. outstanding new research on Puerto Rico and makes it In the 1600s they encountered Europeans as adversaries accessible in English. It covers ten distinct topics written by and allies. But from the early 1700s, white people, particularly nine distinguished scholars from the Caribbean and beyond. the French, began to settle on St. Vincent. The treaty of Paris Contributors include experts in the fields of history, political in 1763 handed the island to the British who wanted the Black science, sociology, literature, journalism, communications, Caribs’ land to grow sugar. Conflict was inevitable, and in a and engineering. Topics include US strategic debate and war series of bloody wars punctuated by uneasy peace the Black planning for the Caribbean on the eve of World War II, Puerto Caribs took on the might of the British Empire. Over decades Rico as the headquarters of the Caribbean Sea frontier, war and leaders such as Tourouya, Bigot, and Chatoyer organized the political transition in Puerto Rico, the war economy of Puerto resistance of a society which had no central authority but united Rico, the German blockade of the Caribbean in 1942, and the against the external threat. Finally, abandoned by their French story of a Puerto Rican officer in the Second World War and allies, they were defeated, and the survivors deported to Central Korea. With these essays and others, Island at War represents the America in 1797. cutting edge of scholarship on the role of Puerto Rico and the The Black Carib Wars draws on extensive research in Britain, Caribbean in World War II and its aftermath. France, and St. Vincent to offer a compelling narrative of the formative years of the Garifuna people. JORGE RODRÍGUEZ BERUFF, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, is professor, former director of the Social Science Department, CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR, London, England, is a journalist and former dean of the Faculty of General Studies of the Río who works for the Guardian (London). He is the author of The Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico. He is the Beautiful Game: A Journey through Latin American Football. author and editor of numerous books on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. JOSÉ L. BOLÍVAR FRESNEDA, Guaynabo, Puerto JANUARY, 216 pages, 6 x 9 inches, appendices, bibliography, index Rico, has published books, journal articles, and newspaper Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0956-8 Ebook available columns in both Spanish and English on twentieth-century Caribbean Studies Series Puerto Rican history. They are the coeditors of Puerto Rico en la Segunda Guerra Mundial: Baluarte del Caribe.

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War Noir Clockwork Rhetoric Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled The Language and Style of NEW IN Paperback Detective as Veteran in American Fiction Steampunk

Sarah Trott Edited by Barry Brummett

he conflation of the hard-boiled style and war Contributions by David Beard, Elizabeth experience has influenced many contemporary crime Birmingham, Joshua Gunn, Mirko M. writers, particularly in the traumatic aftermath of Hall, Lisa Horton, Andrew Mara, John M. the Vietnam War. Yet, earlier writers in the genre, such as McKenzie, Kristin Stimpson, Mary Anne Taylor, John R. Thompson, and Jaime L. Raymond Chandler, remain overlooked when it comes to T Wright examining how their war experience affected their writing. Sarah Trott corrects this oversight by examining Chandler his unique book explores alongside the World War I writers of the Lost Generation how the aesthetic and as well as highlighting a melding of very different styles in cultural movement Chandler’s work. “Steampunk” persuades audiences Based on Chandler’s experience in combat, Trott Tand wins new acolytes. Steampunk explains that the writer created detective Philip Marlowe not is a style grounded in the Victorian as the idealization of heroic individualism, as is commonly era, in clothing and accoutrements perceived, but instead as an HOW THE modeled on a heightened and A RECOGNITION authentic individual subjected to LANGUAGE OF THE hyperextended age of steam. In very real psychological frailties OF THE INTENSE IMAGINATIVELY addition to its modeling of attire from trauma during the First and other symbolic trappings, what ROLE WAR TRAUMA STYLED MOVEMENT World War. Inspecting Chandler’s is most distinctive is its adherents’ PLAYED IN THE work and correspondence indicates ATTRACTS use of a machined aesthetic that the characterization of the GREAT WRITER’S FOLLOWERS TO based on steam engines and early fictional Marlowe goes beyond CHARACTERS AND electrical machinery—gears, pistons, the traditional chivalric readings STEAMPUNK LEGACY shafts, wheels, induction motors, and can instead be interpreted AESTHETIC clockwork, and so forth. as a genuine representation of Precursors to steampunk can a traumatized veteran in American society. Substituting the be found in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. The horror of the trenches for the corruption of the city, Chandler imagery of the American West contributed to the aesthetic— formed a disillusioned protagonist in an uncaring America. revolvers, locomotives, and rifles of the late nineteenth century. Chandler did so with the sophistication necessary to straddle Among young people, steampunk has found common cause genre fiction and canonical literature. with Goth style. Examples from literature and popular culture The sum of this work offers a new understanding of how include William Gibson’s fiction, China Miéville’s novels, the Chandler uses his war trauma, how that experience established classic filmMetropolis , and the BBC series Doctor Who. This the traditional archetype of detective fiction, and how this volume recognizes that steampunk, a unique popular culture reading of his fiction enables Chandler to transcend generic phenomenon, presents a prime opportunity for rhetorical limitations and be recognized as a key twentieth-century criticism. literary figure. Steampunk’s art, style, and narratives convey complex social and political meanings. Chapters in Clockwork SARAH TROTT, Brigend, South Wales, United Kingdom, Rhetoric explore topics ranging from jewelry to Japanese anime is a lecturer in American studies at Swansea University. She to contemporary imperialism to fashion. Throughout, the book has published in the edited collection Men After War and the demonstrates how language influences consumers of steampunk journal Comparative American Studies. to hold certain social and political attitudes and commitments.

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More than Cricket Faulkner and History and Football Edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas, Jr.

International Sport and the Contributions by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Challenge of Celebrity Jordan Burke, Rebecca Clark, James C. Cobb, Anna Creadick, Colin Dayan, Wai Edited by Joel Nathan Rosen and Maureen M. Smith Chee Dimock, Sarah E. Gardner, Hannah Godwin, Brooks E. Hefner, Andrew B. Foreword by Roberta J. Park Leiter, Sean McCann, Conor Picken, Natalie Afterword by Jack Lule J. Ring, and Calvin Schermerhorn

Contributions by Lisa Doris Alexander, illiam Faulkner remains Sean Bell, Benn L. Bongang, Joel S. a historian’s writer. A Franks, Silvana Vilodre Goellner, Annette distinguished roster of R. Hofmann, Dong Jinxia, Cláudia Samuel historians have referenced Faulkner Kessler, Jack Lule, Li Luyang, Mark Panek, A STIMULATING in their published work. They are Roberta J. Park, Gamage Harsha Perera, TREATMENT OF W Nancy E. Spencer, Tim B. Swartz, Viral drawn to him as a fellow historian, THE INTERSECTION Shah, Dominic Standish, Dan Travis, a shaper of narrative reflections Theresa A. Walton-Fisette, and Zhong BETWEEN HISTORY on the meaning of the past; as a historiographer, a theorist, and Yijing AND LITERATURE dramatist of the fraught enterprise IN THE NOBEL iven the presumed of doing history; and as a historical dominance of American LAUREATE’S WORK figure himself, especially following sport, many fans throughout his midcentury emergence as a A PASSPORT TO THE Gthe hemisphere find it public intellectual after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. MANY NATIONS, difficult to envision the role of This volume brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of Faulkner’s relationship SPORTS STARS, AND sport beyond the confines of their own continent. And yet, world sport to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his SPORTS ACROSS THE consists of so much more than the explorations of the historiographic imagination; his engagement with historical figures from both the regional and national GLOBE games Americans play and so much past; his influence on professional historians; his pursuit of more than the stereotype of cricket alternate modes of temporal awareness; and the histories of print for the elite and football for the working class. As worldwide culture that shaped the production, reception, and criticism of sport continues to gain in popularity, we also see parallels to Faulkner’s work. many aspects visible in North American sport, particularly Contributors draw on the history of development in the celebrity and all its trappings and pitfalls. Mississippi Valley, the construction of Confederate memory, the The success of athletes from other countries in basketball history and curriculum of Harvard University, twentieth-century and ice hockey, and the proliferation of stars imported and now debates over police brutality and temperance reform, the history exported to and from North America, provides some better of modern childhood, and the literary histories of antislavery examples of sport’s international power. It also creates a very writing and pulp fiction to illuminate Faulkner’s work. Others new kind of sport celebrity, albeit one that often shows a rather in the collection explore the meaning of Faulkner’s fiction for limited reach beyond that star’s own country or continent. such professional historians as C. Vann Woodward and Albert Thus, rather than focusing on the Western Hemisphere, this Bushnell Hart. In these ways and more, Faulkner and History collection of some of world sport’s most heralded celebrities offers fresh insights into one of the most persistent and long- (including stars of Motocross, surfing, distance running, and recognized elements of the Mississippian’s artistic vision. more) serves as a sort of passport to many places that make up our global sporting environment. JAY WATSON, Oxford, Mississippi, is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and professor of English at the University JOEL NATHAN ROSEN, Allentown, Pennsylvania, is associate of Mississippi. He is the editor of Conversations with Larry Brown, professor of sociology at Moravian College in Bethlehem. He is Faulkner and Whiteness, and coeditor of Faulkner’s Geographies coeditor of A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and and Fifty Years after Faulkner (published by University Press of Female Athletes; Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall from Grace; Mississippi). JAMES G. THOMAS, JR., Oxford, Mississippi, and Reconstructing Fame: Sport, Race, and Evolving Reputations, all is associate director for publications at the University of published by University Press of Mississippi. MAUREEN M. Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. SMITH, Richmond, California, is a professor in the He is editor of Conversations with Barry Hannah (published by Department of Kinesiology and Health Science at Sacramento University Press of Mississippi) and an editor for the twenty- State University. four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

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The Original Blues BOOKS BY The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff

n this volume, Lynn Abbott Out of Sight and Doug Seroff complete their The Rise of African American groundbreaking trilogy on the Popular Music, 1889-1895 development of African American A CHOICE Outstanding popularI music, authoritatively connecting Academic Title of 2003 the black vaudeville movement with the “A product of old-fashioned, explosion of blues that followed. At the end back-wearying, foundational of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began scholarship, yet very readable, to replace minstrelsy as America’s favorite this book is certain to feature form of stage entertainment. Segregation importantly in future studies necessitated the creation of discrete African of early jazz and its prehistory. Highly recommended.” AN INVALUABLE American vaudeville theaters. When these —Library Journal MUSICAL HISTORY venues first gained popularity, ragtime coon Paper $40.00S 978-1-60473-244-3 songs were the standard fare. Black vaudeville DOCUMENTING THE theaters provided a safe haven where coon ADVENT OF THE songs could be rehabilitated. Dynamic Ragged but Right Black Traveling Shows, “Coon BLUES IN BLACK interaction between the performers and their Songs,” and the Dark Pathway audience unleashed creative energies that VAUDEVILLE to Blues and Jazz accelerated the development of the blues. A CHOICE Outstanding The first blues star of black vaudeville Academic Title of 2007 was Butler “String Beans” May, a blackface comedian, pianist, singer, “Drawing from primary and dancer from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his senseless death in sources—mainly newspapers— 1917, he was recognized as the “blues master piano player of the world.” the authors offer a vivid His legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the history (enhanced by many repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the Race illuminating illustrations) recording era. of the period…. [F]ascinating to lay readers and scholars While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface alike, the four appendixes offer specifics about group comedian, female “coon shouters” acquired a more dignified aura in the membership and tour itineraries…. Summing Up: emergent persona of the “blues queen.” Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Essential.” most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, —CHOICE, D.R. de Lerma, Lawrence University including forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, reconfigured the use of blackface for their own subversive purposes. Paper $40.00S 978-1-61703-645-3 In 1921 black vaudeville was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collusion with the emergent To Do This, You Race recording industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies Must Know How headed by blues queens with records to sell. While the 1920s was the most Music Pedagogy in the celebrated and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the previous Black Gospel Quartet Tradition decade was arguably the most creative, having witnessed the emergence, “To Do This, You Must Know popularization, and early development of the original blues in southern How is essential reading for theaters. the serious student as well as the armchair enthusiast LYNN ABBOTT, New Orleans, Louisiana, works at the Hogan Jazz of African American sacred Archive, Tulane University. DOUG SEROFF, Greenbrier, Tennessee, is music. Abbott and Seroff’s an independent scholar. Together they are the coauthors of Out of Sight: unquestionable street- The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895; Ragged but Right: Black level command of the subject, and their passion for Traveling Shows, “Coon Songs,” and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz; and the music, make the book a pleasure to explore and a To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet significant contribution to American music scholarship. Tradition, all published by University Press of Mississippi. FIVE OF FIVE STARS.” —Bob Marovich, Journal of Gospel Music FEBRUARY, 480 pages (approx.), 8 x 10 inches, 187 b&w illustrations, index Paper $40.00S 978-1-4968-0248-4 Cloth $85.00S 978-1-4968-1002-1 Ebook available American Made Music Series

Photograph: Bessie Smith and Wayne “Buzzin’” Burton, 1912

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Yodeling and Meaning Musical Life NEW IN in American Music in Guyana Paperback History and Politics of Timothy E. Wise Controlling Creativity imothy E. Wise presents Vibert C. Cambridge the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. usical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of He shows that yodeling serves an T Guyanese musical life. It aesthetic function in musical texts. is also a richly detailed description of A series of chronological chapters the social, economic, and political analyzes this musical tradition from M conditions that have encouraged and its earliest appearances in Europe sometimes discouraged musical and to its incorporation into a range of cultural creativity in Guyana. The American genres and beyond. Wise book contributes to the study of the posits the reasons for yodeling’s interactions between the policies and changing status in our music. How practices by national governments THE FIRST and why was yodeling introduced and musical communities in the MUSICOLOGICAL into professional music making in Caribbean. the first place? What purposes has it AND IDEOLOGICAL A STUDY OF HOW Vibert C. Cambridge explores served in musical texts? Why was it these interactions in Guyana during EXAMINATION OF A expunged from classical music? Why CARIBBEAN MUSIC the three political eras that the RICH TRADITION did it attach to some popular music AND IDENTITY society experienced as it moved genres and not others? Why does EVOLVE WHEN from being a British colony to an yodeling now appear principally at independent nation. The first era the margins of mainstream tastes? THE GOVERNMENT to be considered is the period of To answer such questions, Wise applies the perspectives CONTROLS ALL MEDIA mature colonial governance, guided of critical musicology, semiotics, and cultural studies to the by the dictates of “new imperialism,” changing semantic associations of yodeling in an unexplored which extended from 1900 to repertoire stretching from Beethoven to Zappa. This volume 1953. The second era, the period of internal self-government marks the first musicological and ideological analysis of this and the preparation for independence, extends from 1953, prominent but largely ignored feature of American musical life. the year of the first general elections under universal adult Maintaining high scholarly standards but keeping the suffrage, to 1966, the year when the colony gained its political general reader in mind, the author examines yodeling in independence. The third phase, 1966 to 2000, describes the relation to ongoing cultural debates about singing, music as art, early postcolonial era. social class, and gender. Chapters devote attention to yodeling Cambridge reveals how the issues of race, class, gender, in nineteenth-century classical music, the nineteenth-century and ideology deeply influenced who in Guyanese multicultural Alpine-themed song in America, the Americanization of the society obtained access to musical instruction and media outlets yodel, Jimmie Rodgers, and cowboy yodeling, among other and thus who received recognition. He also describes the close topics. connections between Guyanese musicians and Caribbean artists from throughout the region and traces the exodus of TIMOTHY E. WISE, Manchester, United Kingdom, was born Guyanese musicians to the great cities of the world, a theme and reared in Texas and is a senior lecturer in musicology at the often neglected in Caribbean studies. The book concludes University of Salford, England. A member of the International that the practices of governance across the twentieth century exerted disproportionate influence in the creation, production, Association for the Study of Popular Music, he has published distribution, and consumption of music. work in Radical Musicology, American Music, the Musical Quarterly, Popular Music, and the Journal of American Folklore. VIBERT C. CAMBRIDGE, Athens, Ohio, is professor emeritus, School of Media Arts and Studies, Ohio University and SEPTEMBER, 272 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 2 b&w illustrations, President, Guyana Cultural Association of New York, Inc. 48 musical examples, 2 tables, bibliography, index He is the author of Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-0580-5 Ebook available the United States, 1990–2001 and coeditor of International Afro American Made Music Series Mass Media. His work has appeared in such journals as Arts Journal (Guyana), Caribbean Affairs, and Studies in Latin American Popular Culture.

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The Pinkster King and Inventing NEW IN the King of Kongo George Whitefield Paperback The Forgotten History of America’s Dutch- Race, Revivalism, and the Owned Slaves Making of a Religious Icon

Jeroen Dewulf Jessica M. Parr

he Pinkster King and the King vangelicals and scholars of Kongo presents the his- of religious history have tory of the nation’s forgot- long recognized George ten Dutch slave community and free Whitefield (1714–1770) as a TDutch-speaking African Americans Efounding father of American from seventeenth-century New evangelicalism. But Jessica M. Amsterdam to nineteenth-century Parr argues he was much more New York and New Jersey. It also than that. He was an enormously develops a provocative new inter- influential figure in Anglo- pretation of one of America’s most American religious culture, and intriguing black folkloric traditions, his expansive missionary career can Pinkster. Jeroen Dewulf rejects the be understood in multiple ways. usual interpretation of this celebra- Whitefield began as an Anglican A RECOVERY OF THE tion of a “slave king” as a form of A THOROUGH clergyman. Many in the Church of England perceived him as a TRANSFORMATIVE SIG- carnival. Instead, he shows that it is a RECKONING OF THE ritual rooted in mutual-aid and slave radical. In the American South, NIFICANCE OF PENTE- brotherhood traditions. By placing EVOLVING IDEAS Whitefield struggled to reconcile his COST CELEBRATIONS these traditions in an Atlantic AND LEGACY OF A disdain for the planter class with his AND FRATERNAL context, Dewulf identifies striking FOUNDING FORCE belief that slavery was an economic parallels to royal election rituals in necessity. Whitefield was drawn to ORDERS ON AFRICAN IN AMERICAN slave communities elsewhere in the an idealized Puritan past that was all AMERICAN IDENTITY Americas, and he traces these rituals EVANGELISM but gone by the time of his first visit to the ancient Kingdom of Kongo to New England in 1740. and the impact of Portuguese culture in West-Central Africa. Parr draws from Whitefield’s writing and sermons and Dewulf’s focus on the social capital of slaves follows the from newspapers, pamphlets, and other sources to understand mutual aid to seventeenth-century Manhattan. He suggests a Whitefield’s career and times. She offers new insights into much stronger impact of Manhattan’s first slave community on revivalism, print culture, transatlantic cultural influences, the development of African American identity in New York and and the relationship between religious thought and slavery. New Jersey than hitherto assumed. Whitefield became a religious icon shaped in the complexities While the earliest works on slave culture in a North of revivalism, the contest over religious toleration, and the American context concentrated on an assumed process of conflicting role of Christianity for enslaved people. Proslavery assimilation according to European standards, later studies Christians used Christianity as a form of social control for pointed out the need to look for indigenous African conti- slaves, whereas evangelical Christianity’s emphasis on “freedom nuities. The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo suggests the necessity in the eyes of God” suggested a path to political freedom. Parr for an increased focus on the substantial contact that many reveals how Whitefield’s death marked the start of a complex Africans had with European—primarily Portuguese—cultures legacy that in many ways rendered him more powerful and before they were shipped as slaves to the Americas. The book has influential after his death than during his long career. already garnered honors as the winner of the Richard O. Col- lins Award in African Studies, the New Netherland Institute JESSICA M. PARR, Exeter, New Hampshire, is a historian Hendricks Award, and the Clague and Carol Van Slyke Prize. specializing in race and religion in the early modern British Atlantic world. She currently teaches at the University of New JEROEN DEWULF, Berkeley, California, is associate professor Hampshire at Manchester. of Dutch studies at the University of California, and direc- tor of Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies. He is author NOVEMBER, 232 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 9 b&w illustrations, bibliography, of Spirit of Resistance: Dutch Clandestine Literature during the Nazi index Occupation and coeditor of Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Paper $30.00S 978-1-4968-0963-6 Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Ebook available

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Melissa Daggett

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