Recently added articles from The Mississippi Quarterly:
Carnival geeks and Voudoun healing: the performance of white guilt and African American empowerment in Eudora Welty's "Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden".(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... IN "KEELA: THE OUTCAST INDIAN MAIDEN" (1940), A YOUNG MAN NAMED Steve appears in Cane Springs, Mississippi, and begins obsessively telling the story of his time as a barker in a traveling carnival show to a local juke-joint owner named Max. Steve claims that he drew spectators in to see an ...
Fish stories: revising masculine ritual in Eudora Welty's "The Wide Net".(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... REPLETE WITH FETISHIZED OBJECTS AND PLACES (MASKS, SWEAT LODGES AND sitting spots), pseudo-tribal rituals (hunting, dancing, drumming, initiatory wounds), and a symbolic mapping of "the deep masculine" that consists of, among other things, "wild men," "inner warriors," "Zeus energy," and ...
Cinematic modernism and Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... IN A SYNERGY PERHAPS NOT AS "FAMOUS" AS THAT OF WALKER EVANS AND James Agee, Eudora Welty worked within two registers, as both fiction writer and photographer. Those registers dynamically come together in The Golden Apples, a text, as we will see, heavily indebted to the visual. The ...
Dark-purple faces and pitiful whiteness: maternity and coming through in Delta Wedding.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... EUDORA WELTY'S DELTA WEDDING PERCOLATES WITH WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES of sexuality. Six pregnant, recently pregnant, and potentially or rumored-to-be pregnant women populate the story: Ellen Fairchild, the ideal and idolized plantation mother; Robbie Reid, the working-class outsider who has ...
Eudora Welty: the liberal imagination and Mississippi politics.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... FOR EUDORA WELTY, AN ACT OF UNDERSTANDING--POLITICAL, SOCIAL, OR personal--was typically an act of the imagination. Through fiction, art, music, she sought to comprehend her world. Not surprisingly, then, she examined Mississippi politics through these prisms. In September 1945, for ...