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Finding a Way Home - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Finding a Way Home - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Considerations of the achievements of the acclaimed and popular African American writerEssays by Owen E. Brady, Kelly C. Connelly, Juan F. Elices, Keith Hughes, Derek C. Maus, Jerrilyn McGregory, Laura Quinn, Francesca Canadé Sautman, Daniel Stein, Lisa B. Thompson, Terrence Tucker, and Albert U. Turner, Jr.In Finding a Way Home, twelve essays by scholars from four countries trace Walter Mosley''s distinctive approach to representing African American responses to the feeling of homelessness in an inhospitable America. Mosley (b. 1952) writes frequently of characters trying to construct an idea of home and wrest a sense of dignity, belonging, and hope from cultural and communal resources. These essays examine Mosley''s queries about the meaning of "home" in various social and historical contexts. Essayists consider the concept--whether it be material, social, cultural, or virtual--in all three of Mosley''s detective/crime fiction series (Easy Rawlins, Socrates Fortlow, and Fearless Jones), his three books of speculative fiction, two of his "literary" novels (RL''s Dream, The Man in My Basement), and in his recent social and political nonfiction.Essays here explore Mosley''s modes of expression, his testing of the limitations of genre, his political engagement in prose, his utopian/dystopian analyses, and his uses of parody and vernacular culture. Finding a Way Home provides rich discussions, explaining the development of Mosley''s work.Owen E. Brady is associate professor of humanities and coordinator of the American studies program at Clarkson University. His work has appeared in Callaloo; Obsidian: Black Literature in Review; and many other periodicals. Derek C. Maus is associate professor of English at the State University of New York, Potsdam. His work has appeared in Symbolism and other periodicals.

DKK 312.00
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Stories from Home - Jerry Clower - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Stories from Home - Jerry Clower - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Brimming with his rich humor, Jerry Clower''s book manifests the unsurpassed southern art of yarn spinning. It also shows the nature of the man for whom good storytelling is more than just show business. Nashville''s funniest man had a serious side. Deep in the merry heart of this comic entertainer were the codes and values that made him an esteemed humanitarian. He was named America''s best country comic for nine years in a row and was called "the funniest American storyteller since Will Rogers" and "the Mouth of the Mighty Mississippi." This boisterous, downhome man''s loving, extroverted manner and his forthright display of positive feelings for others arose from the substance of sober, rock-solid regional values he gained from maturing in the rural South. Stories from Home embraces both sides of Jerry Clower, the funny man and the serious man, and shows his anecdotal humor in the mainstream of the South''s great oral tradition of folktales and narratives. Jerry Clower''s hilarious stories about possum hunting, coon dogs, and the rambunctious Ledbetter clan were standards in his stage routines, videos, and albums. In Stories from Home many of his fans'' favorite Clower tales are included. Here, too, is a long interview in which he explored his beliefs and tells how he gained firm convictions about race, religion, education, and family as well as an intolerance of negativism.

DKK 240.00
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At Home Abroad - Miriam Jones Shillingsburg - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

At Home Abroad - Miriam Jones Shillingsburg - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

At Home Abroad: Mark Twain in Australasiaby Miriam Jones ShillingsburgAt Home Abroad brings attention to a little known period in the career of America''s most notable humorist. It follows this writer-performer down under on a journey through thirty lectures in colonial Australia and New Zealand. This appealing book is a daily account of Twain''s activities and is based upon his notebooks, his letters, and newspaper reports that appeared both in cities and in the provinces. Shillingsburg offers serious evaluation of Australasian criticism that appeared in reviews of Twain''s performances, in editorials about humor, and in the critical reception of his last travel book, More Tramps Abroad. She shows this world-famous literary man in his posturing and performing as he delights the audiences down under.She begins with an account of Twain''s accumulating of debt and his bankruptcy in the early nineties and provides biographical details during the last fifteen weeks of 1895. The cultural and intellectual context in which she places this information clarifies Twain''s mystifying comments to reporters, the puzzling responses to some of his jokes, and his unique notebook entries.Shillingsburg shows that Twain''s interest in geography and local history illuminates comments he made in his travel book. Her discussion of the distinctive political and economic matters in the colonies gives a clue to the enormously popular reception he received, for on this tour Twain captivated nearly everyone. Not only the glamorous but also the ordinary folk paid their "splendid shilling" to hear him. Looking like a "graven image," he spun out his seemingly spontaneous yarns. The questions they asked him reveal how well they knew American literature in 1895 and show their earnest groping to find their own native literature. Those questions and the articles written from them, in turn, drew Twain''s compliments and demonstrated a mutual respect between the master humorist and his audience. Shillingsburg shows that ideas on wit and humor were articulated most clearly in interviews in Sydney, and his thoughts on "American" humor were most specifically stated in Auckland. She examines these in the context of the Australasian comments both on Twain''s formal and informal speeches.Miriam Jones Shillingsburg (retired) was a professor of English at Mississippi State University.

DKK 312.00
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Fiction of the Home Place - Helen Fiddyment Levy - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Fiction of the Home Place - Helen Fiddyment Levy - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Fiction of the Home Place: Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylorby Helen Fiddyment LevyThis panorama of a distinctly American literary world details a persistent pattern of plot and characterization in the work of a significant group of women writers. Starting with the nineteenth-century domestic novel, many women authors have challenged the male literary icon of the womanless, free-standing male adventurer who shapes the natural world to his individual vision. Instead, works by Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Gloria Naylor envision a semidivine female figure who brings into being an alternative community which honors female worth and female creativity. The works of these writers offer the empowerment of female authorship and acknowledge the woman''s community whose collective experience shapes their narratives.Helen Fiddyment Levy was a professor of English literature at George Mason University.

DKK 312.00
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Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora - Thadious Davis - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora - Thadious Davis - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Contributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadège T. Clitandre, Thadious M. Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins, Megan Feifer, Delphine Gras, Akia Jackson, Tammie Jenkins, Shewonda Leger, Jennifer M. Lozano, Marion Christina Rohrleitner, Thomás Rothe, Erika V. Serrato, Lucía Stecher, and Joyce White Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat contains fifteen essays addressing how Edwidge Danticat''s writing, anthologizing, and storytelling trace, (re)construct, and develop alternate histories, narratives of nation building, and conceptions of home and belonging. The prolific Danticat is renowned for novels, collections of short fiction, nonfiction, and editorial writing. As her experimentation in form expands, so does her force as a public intellectual. Danticat''s literary representations, political commentary, and personal activism have proven vital to classroom and community work imagining radical futures. Among increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and containment and rampant ecological volatility, Danticat''s contributions to public discourse, art, and culture deserve sustained critical attention. These essays offer essential perspectives to scholars, public intellectuals, and students interested in African diasporic, Haitian, Caribbean, and transnational American literary studies. This collection frames Danticat''s work as an indictment of statelessness, racialized and gendered state violence, and the persistence of political and economic margins. The first section of this volume, "The Other Side of the Water," engages with Danticat''s construction and negotiation of nation, both in Haiti and the United States; the broader dyaspora ; and her own, her family''s, and her fictional characters'' places within them. The second section, "Welcoming Ghosts," delves into the ever-present specter of history and memory, prominent themes found throughout Danticat''s work. From origin stories to broader Haitian histories, this section addresses the underlying traumas involved when remembering the past and its relationship to the present. The third section, "I Speak Out," explores the imperative to speak, paying particular attention to the narrative form with which such telling occurs. The fourth and final section, "Create Dangerously," contends with Haitians'' activism, community building, and the political and ecological climate of Haiti and its dyaspora .

DKK 823.00
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Look Who’s Cooking - Jennifer Rachel Dutch - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Look Who’s Cooking - Jennifer Rachel Dutch - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Home cooking is a multibillion-dollar industry that includes cookbooks, kitchen gadgets, high-end appliances, specialty ingredients, and more. Cooking-themed programming flourishes on television, inspiring a wide array of celebrity chef-branded goods even as self-described "foodies" seek authenticity by pickling, preserving, and canning foods in their own home kitchens. Despite this, claims that "no one has time to cook anymore" are common, lamenting the slow extinction of traditional American home cooking in the twenty-first century.In Look Who's Cooking: The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century , author Jennifer Rachel Dutch explores the death of home cooking, revealing how modern changes transformed cooking at home from an odious chore into a concept imbued with deep meanings associated with home, family, and community.Drawing on a wide array of texts--cookbooks, advertising, YouTube videos, and more--Dutch analyzes the many manifestations of traditional cooking in America today. She argues that what is missing from the discourse around home cooking is an understanding of skills and recipes as a form of folklore. Dutch's research reveals that home cooking is a powerful vessel that Americans fill with meaning because it represents both the continuity of the past and adaptability to the present. Home cooking is about much more than what is for dinner; it's about forging a connection to the past, displaying the self in the present, and leaving a lasting legacy for the future.

DKK 867.00
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Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

An international reassessment of the great writer''s workContributions by Robert Butler, Ginevra Geraci, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Floyd W. Hayes III, Joseph Keith, Toru Kiuchi, John W. Lowe, Sachi Nakachi, Virginia Whatley Smith, and John ZhengCritics in this volume reassess the prescient nature of Richard Wright''s mind as well as his life and body of writings, especially those directly concerned with America and its racial dynamics. This edited collection offers new readings and understandings of the particular America that became Wright''s focus at the beginning of his career and was still prominent in his mind at the end.Virginia Whatley Smith''s edited collection examines Wright''s fixation with America at home and from abroad: his oppression by, rejection of, conflict with, revolts against, and flight from America. Other people have written on Wright''s revolutionary heroes, his difficulties with the FBI, and his works as a postcolonial provocateur; but none have focused singly on his treatment of America. Wherever Wright traveled, he always positioned himself as an African American as he compared his experiences to those at hand.However, as his domestic settlements changed to international residences, Wright''s craftsmanship changed as well. To convey his cultural message, Wright created characters, themes, and plots that would expose arbitrary and whimsical American policies, oppressive rules which would invariably ensnare Wright''s protagonists and sink them more deeply into the quagmire of racial subjugation as they grasped for a fleeting moment of freedom.Smith''s collection brings to the fore new ways of looking at Wright, particularly his post-Native Son international writings. Indeed, no critical interrogations have considered the full significance of Wright''s masterful crime fictions. In addition, the author''s haiku poetry complements the fictional pieces addressed here, reflecting Wright''s attitude toward America as he, near the end of his life, searched for nirvana--his antidote to American racism.Virginia Whatley Smith, Smyrna, Georgia, is a retired associate professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the editor of Richard Wright''s Travel Writings: New Reflections, published by University Press of Mississippi.

DKK 858.00
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Brierfield - Jr. Everett Edgar - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Brierfield - Jr. Everett Edgar - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Brierfield: Plantation Home of Jefferson Davisby Frank Edgar Everett, Jr.This is the story of a house, "Brierfield," and incidentally of a man, Jefferson Davis, and his family. The author traces the story of "Brierfield" from its construction in the antebellum period to its final disappearance in the twentieth century, a victim of war, floods, and fire. Most people associate Jefferson Davis with "Beauvoir," his home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the years after 1865, but "Brierfield" was his home during the most productive years of his life. We see Davis here as a young planter, a United States Representative and Senator, a Mexican War hero, United States Secretary of War, and President of the Confederate States of America. The tangled web of relationships involving Davis, his second wife, Varina Howell of Natchez, and his older brother and substitute father, Joseph Davis of nearby "Hurricane Plantation," unfolds against the physical setting of "Brierfield."Frank Edgar Everett, Jr. is the author of several books and articles on Mississippi history during the antebellum period. A trial lawyer, he also served as assistant attorney general of Mississippi and as a trustee of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

DKK 312.00
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