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Uproariously funny and filled with choice narration, The Big Ballad Jamboree is Donald Davidson's only novel. He set his story - the romance of hillbilly and country singer Danny MacGregor with folk singer and ballad scholar Cissy Timberlake - in the fictional western North Carolina town of Carolina City during the summer of 1949.

Insights into a rediscovered author's revealing portraits of New England women

Colonizers imposed Christianity and biblical codes on their subjects. In the waning of imperialism, newly emerging peoples employed these same biblical codes as their cries for freedom and justice. These essays expose this tool of oppression as a tool of justice in works from Latin American, Native American, African, and Middle Eastern authors.

This probing look at capital punishment in execution novels and in real-life media accents the poles of punitive power. Such a comparison of literary works with confrontational journalism and court records also brings revealing insight into the long-term debate on capital punishment in American culture.

Richard Wright, the Mississippi-born black writer, saw himself as "an outsider between two cultures," a man searching. In these twelve essays, Michel Fabre follows Wright's search in an investigation of the novelist's life and career. Not originally intended as a collection, these essays underscore Wright's literary and intellectual development.

A history of the Magnolia State's notorious watchdog agency established for maintaining racial segregation

Based on the correspondence of missionaries in the field, this book offers valuable insight unto understanding Protestant attitudes toward the American Indians in the nineteenth century. The book portrays a major Protestant denomination's evangelical program to take the Indian from heathenism to gospel light.

Drawing on research in social movement theory and protest music, Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control traces the history and rise of reggae and the story of how an island nation commandeered the music to fashion an image and entice tourists.

Collects interviews with some of the most influential poets of the last fifty years. The conversations return continually to the serious matter of poetic craft, especially the potential power of form in poetry. These well-paced conversations showcase poets discussing their creative lives with insight and candour.

Since the 1960s, William Faulkner, Mississippi's most famous author, has been recognised as a central figure of international modernism. In eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Faulkner and Postmodernism examines William Faulkner and his fiction in light of postmodern literature, culture, and theory.

Today recognised as a major innovator of American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt is an important contributor to de-romanticizing trends in post-Civil War Southern literature, and a singular voice among turn-of-the-century realists who wrote about race in American life. Whiteness in the Novels of Charles W. Chesnutt is the first study to focus exclusively on Chesnutt's novels.

Studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the ten years after World War II. Lubin's study suggests that we cannot fully understand contemporary debates about "hybridity," or mixed-race identity, without first comprehending how WWII changed the terrain.

A study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world of the professional musician brought about both by the outbreak of World War II and by long-term changes in the music business, in popular taste and in American society itself.

The critique of white male society that Charles W. Chesnutt launched in A Marrow of Tradition continues in this novel, one of six manuscripts left unpublished when this highly regarded African American innovator died. Set in Boston society, on a deserted Caribbean island, and in Brazil, Evelyn's Husband is the story of two men in love with the same young woman.

During World War II, merchant marine tankers in convoys plied the frozen North Atlantic through the flaming wreckage of torpedoed ships. Working to keep sea lanes open, valiant merchant seamen supplied food, fuel, and goods to the Allies in the last pockets of European resistance to the Nazis.This exciting book acknowledges that the merchant marines, all volunteers, are among the unsung heroes of the war. One of these was Jac Smith, an ordinary seamen on the Cedar Creek, a new civilian tanker lend-leased to the U.S.S.R. and in the merchantman convoy running from Scotland to Murmansk. Smith's riveting adventures at sea and in the frozen taigas and tundra are a story of valor that underlines the essential role of merchant marines in the war against the Axis powers.This gripping narrative tells of a cruel blow that fate dealt Smith when, after volunteering to serve on the tanker headed for Murmansk, he was arrested and interned in a Soviet work camp near Arkhangelsk.Escape from Archangel recounts how this American happened to be imprisoned in an Allied country and how he planned and managed his escape. In his arduous 900-mile trek to freedom, he encountered the remarkable Laplanders of the far north and brave Norwegian resistance fighters. While telling this astonishing story of Jac Smith and of the awesome dangers merchant seamen endured while keeping commerce alive on the seascape of war, Escape from Archangel brings long-deserved attention to the role of the merchant marine and their sacrifices during wartime.

Questions about the cultural interaction between whites and enslaved blacks in the antebellum South have long aroused controversy. The essays collected in this volume attempt to give answers and conclusions and to bring the picture of cultural life in the antebellum South into clearer focus.

These original essays address a cluster of related problems of enduring fascination for all those who wish to understand the ever-changing, ever-abiding American South. Offering new answers to important questions, they address the Second World War as a major watershed in southern history.

Race has shaped public education in the Magnolia State, from Reconstruction through the Carter Administration. Charles C. Bolton mines newspaper accounts, interviews, journals, archival records, legal and financial documents, and other sources to uncover the complex story of one of Mississippi's most significant and vexing issues.

Was there a sudden break in the world of art, literature, and music when modernism gave way to postmodernism? Philip Nel attacks the notion of tremendous and sudden change in artistic understanding and literary practice. Instead, he proposes that a series of small but far-reaching changes drew understanding from modernism to postmodernism.

Illuminates Britain's evolving relationship with the American South over a period of four centuries, an era that witnessed Britain's rise to imperial dominance and then the gradual erosion of its influence on the wider world. It considers the British influence upon - and often critical responses to - Southern institutions and cultural formations such as religion, gentility, slavery, and music.

An examination of the most gruesome tales in contemporary legend

Before Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. This study of his life and thought, the first critical biography of the pivotal African American thinker written by a historian argues that Delany reflects the spectrum of the nineteenth-century black independence movement.

Examines the cultural and historical significance of swing and tells how and why it achieved its audience, unified its fans, defined its generation, and, after World War II, fell into decline. This book shows that swing manifested the kind of up-to-date allure that the populace craved. Swing sounded modern, happy, optimistic.

The thirteen essays in this anthology contribute to a growing interest in the emerging international genre of exile and diaspora films, treating a variety of motion pictures from Europe and the United States in their national and transnational contexts.

The "Travelling People" of Scotland are a nomadic minority group. For their skill as storytellers, as well as ballad singers, they are internationally recognized. One of their best-known storytellers is Duncan Williamson. While this book focuses on a number of individuals, Duncan's skill as a storyteller and his extensive knowledge of traveller storytelling traditions are prominently featured.

In this crusading book Roger deV. Renwick argues that the business of folksong scholars is to explain folksong: folklorists must liberate the material's own voice rather than impose theories that are personally appealing. To that end, Renwick presents a case study in each of five essays to demonstrate the scholarly value of approaching this material through close readings and comparative analysis.

Walt Disney created or supervised the creation of live-action films, television specials, documentaries, toys, merchandise, comic books, and theme parks. His vision, however, manifested itself first and foremost in his animated shorts and feature-length cartoons. Working with Walt collects conversations with animators, voice actors, and designers who worked extensively with Disney.