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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi John Cassavetes
American filmmaker John Cassavetes (1929-1989) made only nine independent films during a quarter century, but those films affected the cinema culture of the 1960s to the 1980s in unprecedented ways. With a close nucleus of actors and crew members on his team, Cassavetes created films that explored the gritty side of human relationships.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Wading In Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Detailing the buildup of Back-of-Town businesses, lynchings in the early 1900s, and national and state legislation repressing Black progress, author Amy Lemco contextualizes the regional atmosphere Dr Gilbert Mason - a resilient civic leader, humanitarian, and lover of the water - and his family encountered in 1955.
£88.20
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi R. Crumb Literature Autobiography and the Quest for Self
Charts Robert Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explores the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works and the ways he responds to them through innovative, dazzling compositional techniques.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Comics of R. Crumb Underground in the Art Museum
A groundbreaking collection on the work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics culture. Contributors cast Crumb's work as sophisticated and complex in its representations of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and history, and chart his role in underground comix and the ways in which his work has circulated in the art museum.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rugs Guitars and Fiddling
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.
£28.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi A Sportsmans Journey
Lyrically and spiritually connects readers with the natural world. Donald Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America's Deep South, and in so doing helps readers understand and find meaning in why hunters and anglers venture far afield.
£98.10
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.
£98.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Reading Testimony Witnessing Trauma Confronting Race Gender and Violence in American Literature
Theorists emphasize the necessity of writing about - or witnessing - trauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma treats reader response to traumatic and testimonial literature written by and about African American women and adds insight into the engagement of testimonial literature.
£91.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Jean Peters Hollywoods Mystery Girl
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of colour are represented in YASF, how they participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Groove Theory The Blues Foundation of Funk
Presents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history, Tony Bolden explores what it means for music, or any cultural artifact, to be funky.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Robert Williams Conversations
A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled in in this volume attest to his rhetorical powers, which match the high level of energy evident in his underground comix and action-filled canvases.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Critical Directions in Comics Studies
In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics' creation and reception.
£92.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Amazing Jimmi Mayes Sideman to the Stars
For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi Mayes served as a sideman behind some of the greatest musicians and musical groups in history. This sideman to the stars witnessed music history from the best seat in the house - behind the drum set.
£26.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Monstrous Women in Comics
Explores the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Start a Riot Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama Fiction and Poetry
Analyses riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach of literary close-reading, historical, and sociological analysis, Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani considers how BAM artist-writers challenge misconceptions regarding Black protest through experimental explorations in their writings.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Hearing Brazil Music and Histories in Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation’s slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a range of traditions helping to define the region, Jonathon Grasse examines the complexity of Minas Gerais by exploring the intersections of its history, music, and culture.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Cham The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes 18391862
Cham, real name Count Amédée de Noé, may have been the epitome of a célèbre inconnu, a famous unknown. He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of his huge oeuvre as a caricaturist. This book concentrates on his mastery of the important newcomer to the field of caricature, which we call comic strip, picture story, and graphic novel.
£81.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Savvy Sphinx How Garbo Conquered Hollywood
Including over a hundred beautiful images, The Savvy Sphinx charts Greta Garbo’s rise and her long self-imposed exile as the queen who abdicated her Hollywood throne. Garbo was the paramount star produced by the Hollywood studio system, and by the time of her death her legendary status was assured.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi In Faulkners Shadow A Memoir
What happens when you marry into a family that includes a Nobel Prize winner who is arguably the finest American writer of the twentieth century? Lawrence Wells, author of In Faulkner's Shadow: A Memoir, fills this lively tale with stories that answer just that.
£24.95
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Roots Punk
Punk rock evokes dissent and disruption, abrasive and anarchic musicality, and a host of countercultural aesthetics. Featuring interviews and over one hundred images, this volume focuses on how punk merged with roots music to create a rich style that incorporated honky-tonk, rockabilly, doo-wop, reggae, ska, jazz, folk, blues, and labour ballads.
£91.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Whiskey Women and War How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans
Surveys the various ways New Orleans confronted the demands of World War I under the supervision of a dynamic political machine boss. Author Brian Altobello analyzes the mobilization of the local population in terms of enlistments and war bond sales and addresses the anti-vice crusade meant to safeguard the American war effort.
£35.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson
Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson (1835-1906) was born a slave but went on to become a wealthy businessman, grocer, politician, publisher, and religious leader. Alicia Jackson presents a biography of Anderson and in it a microhistory of Black religious life and politics after emancipation.
£26.15
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House and Beyond
Offers a sustained, critical examination of Wilder's writings, including her Little House series, her posthumously published The First Four Years, her letters, journalism, and autobiography. The collection also draws on biographies of Wilder, letters to and from Wilder and her daughter, and other biographical materials.
£31.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
These twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In conversations from sources as diverse as major news magazines and small scholarly journals, Oates candidly talks about her work, her concepts of literature, her methods of writing, and many other topics.
£25.26
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Civil Rights Movement in America
The Civil Rights Movement warrants continuing and extensive examination. The six papers in this collection, each supplemented by a follow-up assessment, contribute to a clearer perception of what caused and motivated the movement, of how it functioned, of the changes that occurred within it, and of its accomplishments and shortcomings.
£29.00
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
