Inventing Benjy
William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap
The newly translated analysis of one of the most innovative protagonists ever created in American modernism
Conversations with Sarah Schulman
Thirty years of interviews spanning the career of the novelist, screenwriter, and gay activist whose works include After Delores and Maggie Terry
Black Hibiscus
African Americans and the Florida Imaginary
An exploration of the significant literary and cultural contributions from African Americans in the Sunshine State
Bayou Harvest
Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana
An in-depth study of the power and pride of cooking, hunting, harvesting, foraging, and thriving in coastal Louisiana
The Delta in the Rearview Mirror
The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery
A firsthand account of the splendid rise and frightening fall of Mississippi’s first winery
Tending to the Past
Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom
How Black writers have circumvented stereotypes to positively portray Black survival, creativity, and autonomy to young readers
Sports and the Racial Divide, Volume II
A Legacy of African American Athletic Activism
New perspectives on the ways Black athletes wield their sports platform to address inequalities
Sounding Our Way Home
Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity
A generation-spanning history of music making and the sense of belonging it engenders
See Justice Done
The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition
An analysis of the fraught relations between Black writing and the law
Dorothy Arzner
Interviews
Insights into the career of one of Golden Age Hollywood’s first and most prolific female directors who was best known for The Bride Wore Red
Conversations with Orhan Pamuk
Thirty interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist best known for My Name Is Red, Snow, and The Museum of Innocence
Comics and Modernism
History, Form, and Culture
The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism
A Trumpet around the Corner
The Story of New Orleans Jazz
From the first raucous chorus to the aftermath of Katrina, the saga of the Big Easy’s signature music
Poor Gal
The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane
The telling journey of a centuries-old tune and what it says about race, class, and American folk music
Learning Jazz
Jazz Education, History, and Public Pedagogy
A call for collaboration and understanding in how we learn jazz in diverse settings
Intersecting Aesthetics
Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
How twentieth-century Black writers and filmmakers struggled to create authentic adaptations that reflected Black experiences
From Biblical Book to Musical Megahit
William B. Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen
The compelling history of an acclaimed and enduring musical piece
Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard
Twenty-two interviews with the Norwegian author and winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature who is best known for his two autobiographical series My Struggle and the Seasons quartet
Civic Buildings after the Spanish-American War
How Beaux-Arts edifices reveal the United States’ imperialistic vision in the Caribbean
Body Genre
Anatomy of the Horror Film
A first-of-its-kind study of the relationship between human anatomy and horror
What a Difference a Day Makes
Women Who Conquered 1950s Music
A fun-filled survey of the women who topped the charts in jazz, blues, R&B, and rock ’n’ roll
Rowdy Boundaries
True Mississippi Tales from Natchez to Noxubee
Narratives of the good, the bad, and the outlandish in legal tangles along Mississippi’s borders
Roots Punk
A Visual and Oral History
An entertaining and thorough introduction to the power of punk’s hybrid evolution
Ben Katchor
The first book dedicated to exploring the comics of Ben Katchor
Backseat Quarterback
A wife’s insider story of her marriage to a famous New York Giant during the golden days of professional football
All I Want Is Loving You
Popular Female Singers of the 1950s
A delightful visit with the talented, yet often overlooked, white female vocalists of the 1950s
Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism
Toward Afrocentric Futurism
A vanguard challenge to unite two formerly independent fields in Black studies
American Landscapes
Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World
A lushly illustrated consideration of the significance of landscapes in art and literature during times of unprecedented change
Ferocious Ambition
Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom
An astute, lavishly illustrated evaluation of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars
Robert Williams
Conversations
Interviews with the founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine and coproducer of ZAP Comix who is known for his underground comix cartoons and oil paintings
M. Night Shyamalan
Interviews
Two decades of interviews with the visionary filmmaker of such successful films as The Sixth Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable
Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana
One writer’s odyssey through Louisiana folklore and history as he searches for the true meaning of home
A Seat at the Table
Black Women Public Intellectuals in US History and Culture
A sounding of a profound, lasting imprint on intellectual history
Love Letter from Pig
My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer
An inspiring, deeply personal story about a tumultuous period in civil rights history
This Light of Ours
Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
An astonishing visual record taken by photographers directly engaged in the struggle
The Poacher's Nightmare
Stories of an Undercover Game Warden
The thrilling memoir of a covert wildlife agent
The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker
A riveting true story of a Texas murder that captivated a nation and the evangelical voices who fought for Karla Faye Tucker’s clemency
Terror and Truth
Civil Rights Tourism and the Mississippi Movement
The first critical examination of Mississippi’s civil rights tourism industry