Collected interviews with the award-winning Canadian director of such films as The Dead Father and Careful

Evidence that the most notable fiction writers of the contemporary South very well may be women writers

A black moonshiner and civil rights activist’s autobiographical report on complex events in southern history neglected by white historians

An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him

A revealing study tracing the mechanism of literary evaluation by which the work of Wallace Stevens became a central and revered part of the treasury of modern American poetry

A study of a performing troupe in which women narrate the trauma of domestic violence

The first comprehensive treatment of the impact of the Roosevelt recovery program on the South

From parlor instrument to jazz electric, a study of musical evolution in America’s progressive era

An engaging exploration of the white heterosexual male as portrayed by professional monologists

The biography of the president of Fisk University and his role as a precursor of racial change in America

A intimate collection of sixty-five articles originally published in the TupeloJournal in 1905 and 1906, in which W. L. Clayton recorded the simpler times of the southern frontier from the 1840s to the 1860s

A groundbreaking volume in Mississippi studies in that it is an attempt to open the Piney Woods part of the state to historical and cultural scrutiny

Intriguing investigation of fairy-tale images in Atwood’s haunting fiction, poetry, and artwork

An examination of those who resist, wield and respond to stereotypes in literature, film, sports, and music

A study of how the works of these writers offer the empowerment of female authorship and acknowledge the woman’s community whose collective experience shapes their narratives

Feminism and liberalism in autobiographical writings of six women of the American South

Valuable scholarship from a leading textual critic on southern literature

A critical exploration of the effects and influence of America’s wars upon the works of the Nobel Prize laureate

A study of works by four professional women of the nineteenth century who prescribed domestic lives for others of their sex

The first comprehensive study of the prominent African American author John Edgar Wideman and his novels

The first collection of essays on literature and life from the famous African American activist and scholar

The astonishing story of a planter’s will, a slave revolt, and his freed slaves’ querulous and deadly legacy in war-torn Liberia

A critical assessment of a great Mississippi writer’s empathy with the working class

The tribute to a musician whose career spans hillbilly, bluegrass, and sacred music

Collected interviews with the director who is sometimes called the "lost genius of the New Hollywood generation" for creating such films as Harold and Maude, Being There, Shampoo, and Coming Home

An analysis of the media’s reaction to the lynching of a young black man

In this inclusive examination of Cabell’s life and milieu, a fascinating literary figure is rescued from the literary shadows and acknowledged as a writer of major worth in the canon of American literature.