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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Going Up the Country
At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi, made recordings and interviews and took extensive field notes and photographs of blues musicians and their families. This book presents their experiences in vivid detail.
£33.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Andre Dubus
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Reconsidering Flannery OConnor
Featuring fourteen new essays, Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor disrupts a few commonplace assumptions of O'Connor studies while also circling back to some old questions that are due for new attention.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Geology of Mississippi
An encyclopaedic work by authors with extensive experience in Mississippi's surface geology mapping programme. It brings together published work, unpublished work from agency files, and the authors' experience, both in personal field work and in collaboration with experts from around the word. It includes over a thousand images.
£72.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conscripts of Migration Neoliberal Globalization Nationalism and the Literature of New African Diasporas
Provides a substantial study of a new body of contemporary African diasporic literature called migritude literature. Migritude indicates the work and ideas of a disparate yet distinct group of younger African authors born after independence in the 1960s.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Real Ambassadors Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation
Tells the story of Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors. First conceived in 1956, the musical's journey to the stage tracks extraordinary twists and turns across the backdrop of the civil rights movement.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Last Man Standing Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a new generation of smart comics emerged. Here, for the first time, is the whole story of Mort Sahl, America's iconoclastic father of modern standup comedy.
£35.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The World of Marty Stuart
£41.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Drum Is a Wild Woman Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature
Breaks new ground by comparing the politics of resistance alongside moments of improvisation by examining recurring literary motifs - cry-and-response, the Wild Woman, and the jazz moment - in jazz novels, short stories, and poetry.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Djeha the North African Trickster
An annotated, critical translation of Auguste Moulieras’s folktale collection Les Fourberies de Si Djeh’a, first published in French in 1892. The volume contains sixty tales and an in-depth introduction discussing jocular literature in Islam.
£82.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rugs Guitars and Fiddling Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts
Rugs handwoven in southern Mexico, luthier-made guitars, and southern US fiddle styles experience parallel changes, all absorbing just enough of the complex flavours, dynamics, and rhythms of modern life to translate inherited folklore into traditions that can be widely celebrated today.
£82.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Intersecting Aesthetics Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
Illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Contributors to this collection reveal how Black literary and filmic texts are sites of negotiation between dominant and resistant perspectives, exploring how race-inflected cultural norms have influenced studio and independent film depictions.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Damaged Musicality and Race in Early American Punk
Offers the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The book provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that era.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Chocolate Surrealism Music Movement Memory and History in the CircumCaribbean
Highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Njoroge M. Njoroge sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a larger historical framework.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi DisOrienting Planets Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction
Isiah Lavender III's Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surrounding the racial and ethnic dimensions of science fiction. This volume explores depictions of Asia and Asians in science fiction literature, film, and fandom with particular regard to China, Japan, India, and Korea.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Wong Karwai Interviews
Wong Kar-wai's signature style - experimental, emotive, character-driven, and timeless - remains apparent throughout his films. This volume includes interviews that appear in English for the first time, including some that appeared in Hong Kong magazines now out of print. The interviews cover each of Wong’s feature films.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Howard Cruse
The first biography to tell the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ+ comics. A preacher’s kid from Alabama who became ‘the godfather of queer comics’, Cruse (1944-2019) was a groundbreaking underground cartoonist, a wicked satirist, an LGBTQ+ activist, and a mentor to a vast network of queer comics artists.
£82.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Short Stories of Frank Yerby
A groundbreaking collection that gives readers access to an intriguingly diverse selection of Frank Yerby's short fiction. These collected stories, eleven of which have not previously been published, paint a picture of Yerby as an intellectual who thought deeply about philosophical questions at the centre of understanding what it means to be human.
£28.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Myself and the World A Biography of William Faulkner
William Faulkner (1897-1962) once said of his novels and stories, “I am telling the same story over and over, which is myself and the world.” This biography provides an overview of the life and career of the famous author, demonstrating the interrelationships of that life, centred in Oxford, Mississippi, with the characters and events of his fictional world.
£19.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Mississippi Witness The Photographs of Florence Mars
Features over one hundred of Florence Mars’ photographs, most taken in the decade between 1954 and 1964, almost all published here for the first time. While a few depict public events, most feature private moments, illuminating the separate and unequal worlds of black and white Mississippians in the final days of Jim Crow.
£35.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Freedom Rider Diary
£20.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Graham Swift
The first collection of interviews conducted with the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders. Beginning in 1985 with Swift's arrival in New York to promote Waterland and concluding with an interview from 2016 that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, the collection spans Swift's more than thirty-five-year career as a writer.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Discovering Cat Island Photographs and History
Featuring over 160 black-and-white photographs by Jason Taylor and a foreword by Mississippi's Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, John Cuevas's Discovering Cat Island guides readers through Cat Island with stories and histories of twenty-nine sites - both real and imagined - of the legendary barrier island.
£35.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Faulkner and Slavery
The first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century’s most incisive authors on US slavery and the long ordeal of race in the Americas.
£27.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Beyond the Blockbusters Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
While critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. This volume offers a remedy, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have been overlooked.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Instruments of Empire Filipino Musicians Black Soldiers and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines
The untold story of the Philippine Constabulary Band offers a unique opportunity to examine the limits and porousness of America's racial ideologies, exploring musical pleasure at the intersection of Euro-American cultural hegemony, racialization, and US colonization of the Philippines.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Policing Intimacy Law Sexuality and the Color Line in TwentiethCentury Hemispheric American Literature
Analyses literary depictions of sexual policing of the colour line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories: Mississippi through William Faulkner's work, Louisiana through Ernest Gaines's novels, Haiti through Marie Chauvet and Edwidge Danticat, and the Dominican Republic through work by Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, and Nelly Rosario.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Flights from Fassberg How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace
Both personal revelation and world history, replete with tales from pilots, mechanics, and all those whose lives intersected there, Flights from Fassberg provides context to the Berlin Airlift and its strategic impact, the development of NATO, and the establishment of the West German nation.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Story of French New Orleans History of a Creole City
Explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present in New Orleans over the last three hundred years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to understand the imprint that French sociocultural dynamic left on the Crescent City.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sterling Haydens Wars
A master sailor when he was barely in his twenties, Sterling Hayden (1916-1986) became an overnight film star despite having no training in acting. This volume details the life and career of this important hollywood actor.
£28.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rebirth of the English Comic Strip A Kaleidoscope 18471870
Explores an era of comic history that has been entirely neglected. This buried cache of mid-Victorian graphic humour is marvelously rich in pictorial narratives of all kinds. Author David Kunzle calls this period a ‘rebirth’ because of the preceding long hiatus in use of the new genre.
£75.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Toni Morrison
This is a collection of interviews, beginning in 1974, with Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison describes herself as an African-American writer, and these essays show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-American experience.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with James Baldwin
This collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961 to 1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Dusti Bong233 Art and Life Biloxi New Orleans New York
The art of Dusti Bongé was influenced by her experiences in three American cities: Biloxi, New Orleans, and New York. In developing her artistic practice in these vibrant urban settings, she portrayed a unique ""sense of place"" in her work. In this book J. Richard Gruber documents Bongé's career and key role in the twentieth-century art world.
£67.50
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Part of the Magic A Collection of DisneyInspired Brushes with Greatness
Tells remarkable and wildly entertaining anecdotal stories told through the lens of an entertainment industry insider. Bambi Moe’s fascinating true stories provide a rare insight into the creative process associated with music in animation and give readers a historical reference to the Walt Disney Company’s burgeoning direct-to-video empire.
£20.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Authenticating Whiteness Karens Selfies and Pop Stars
Explores the idea that popular media implicitly portrays whiteness as credible, trustworthy, familiar, and honest, and that this portrayal is normalized and ubiquitous. Whether on television, film, social media, or in the news, white people are constructed as believable and unrehearsed, from the way they talk to how they look and act.
£26.15
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Civic Buildings after the SpanishAmerican War
Following the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States constructed federal buildings in its newly acquired territories, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Maria Eugenia Achurra G. examines this architecture and urban design as a backdrop for US exceptionalism and expansionism.
£91.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Dan Duryea Heel with a Heart
A full-scale, comprehensive biography that examines the tension between Dan Duryea's villainous screen image and his Samaritan personal life. This book, written with Duryea's surviving son Richard's cooperation, fully explores the life and legacy of a Hollywood icon ready for rediscovery.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Old Pro Turkey Hunter
During his life, Gene Nunnery was recognized as a master turkey hunter and an artisan who crafted unique, almost irresistible turkey calls. In The Old Pro Turkey Hunter, the vaunted sportsman shares over fifty years of personal experience in Mississippi and surrounding states, along with the decades-old wisdom of the huntsmen who taught him.
£20.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rethinking Racial Uplift Rhetorics of Black Unity and Disunity in the Obama Era
While many Black intellectuals and activists seek to provide a justification for Black solidarity, not all agree. In Rethinking Racial Uplift, Nigel Malcolm takes contemporary Black public intellectual discourse seriously and shows that disunity among Blacks, a previously ignored topic, is worth exploring.
£82.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Peep Light Stories of a Mississippi River Boat Captain
Most people only consider the Mississippi River when they cross it or when it inconveniently abandons its banks. But every year, millions of tons of cargo are transported by towboats on the river. In this volume, Captain Lee Hendrix provides unique insight on people who work and live on and near the Mississippi River.
£82.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi In with the In Crowd Popular Jazz in 1960s Black America
£88.20
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Smoker beyond the Sea The Story of Puerto Rican Tobacco
In this groundbreaking volume, Juan Jose Baldrich traces the deep changes affecting Puerto Rican tobacco growers and manufacturers and their export markets from the Spanish colonization of the island to the present.
£82.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Boy and Girl Tramps of America
Reveals the poignant experiences of American youth who were sent out on the road by grinding poverty, shattered family relationships, and financially strapped schools that locked their doors. The book captures an appalling spectacle and social problem in America’s history before any effort was made to meet the problem on a nationwide basis.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Monstrous Imaginaries The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics
Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Maaheen Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels.
£31.50
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale
Brings together interviews from newspapers, magazines, and podcasts conducted throughout Joe R. Lansdale’s career. The collection includes conversations between Lansdale and other noted peers like Robert McCammon and James Grady; two podcast transcripts that have never before appeared in print; and a brand-new interview, exclusive to the volume.
£21.44
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard Folklore and Culture in Jamaica
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard, two sister-writers born and raised in Jamaica, re-create imagined and lived homelands in their literature by commemorating the history, culture, and religion of the Caribbean. Drawing on interviews with the authors, this is the first book to give Brodber and Pollard their due.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Heritage and Hoop Skirts How Natchez Created the Old South
Reveals how the women of the Natchez Garden Club saved their city, created one of the first cultural tourism economies in the United States, changed the Mississippi landscape through historic preservation, and fashioned elements of the Lost Cause into an industry.
£35.96
