Recently added articles from The Mississippi Quarterly:
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eudora Welty and the Merlin principle: aspects of story-telling in The Golden Apples--"The Whole World Knows" and "Sir Rabbit".(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Specific in the work, in the mind, but not describable anywhere else--or not by me; shape is something felt. It is the form of the work that you feel to be under way as you write and as you read. At the end, instead of farewell, it tells over the whole, as a whole, to the reader's memory. ...
"The Burning": extreme reversal to meet life's obligations.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... IN EUDORA WELTY'S "THE BURNING," THEIR FATHER AND BROTHER AWAY fighting in the Civil War, the two adult daughters of a Mississippi plantation owner are alone with their slaves when the Yankees come to burn down their house. For Theo, the elder, brave, would-be-masculine one, the Yankees' ...
Eudora Welty's Losing Battles: cars and family values.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... THAT THE CAR PERMEATES AMERICAN CULTURE IS OBVIOUS. RARELY HAS a single object taken hold so quickly and re-cast American life so completely. It enabled women to get out of the house, children to get off the farm, and everyone to get off their feet. This is not to say that America's love ...
Revaluative reading and literary memory in Welty's The Optimist's Daughter.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... IN LAURENCE STERNE'S A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY, MR. YORICK, THE sentimental traveler, hears a plaintive child's voice calling that "it could not get out" (71). Yorick soon discovers that this captive is not a child but a caged starling: <Pre>And to every person who came through the ...
A Eudora Welty Checklist, 1986-2008.(List)
Apr 01, 2009; ... THE FOLLOWING CHECKLIST INTENDS TO CONTINUE THE EFFORTS OF NOEL POLK'S"A EUDORA Welty Checklist, 1936-1972" (MissQ 26.4 [1973]: 663-693) and Pearl Amelia McHaney's "A Eudora Welty Checklist, 1973-1986" (MissQ 39.4 [1986]: 651-697) which were reprinted in Albert J. Devlin's Welt)z: A Life ...
Eudora Alice Welty: April 13, 1909-July 23, 2001.(Brief article)
Apr 01, 2009 ... A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, 1941 The Robber Bridegroom, 1942 The Wide Net and Other Stories, 1943 Delta Wedding, 1946 Music From Spain, 1948 The Golden Apples, 1949 Selected Stories, 1954 The Ponder ...
Eudora Welty: awards and honors.(List)
Apr 01, 2009 ... 1920--Silver Badge, St. Nicholas Magazine, for a drawing "A Heading for August." 1925--Gold Badge, St. Nicholas Magazine, for a poem "In the Twilight." 1938--"Lily Daw and the Three Ladies" in The Best American Short Stories of 1938. 1939--"A Curtain of ...
Lynching's legacy in American culture.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... IN THE SUMMER OF 1901 MARK TWAIN WROTE AN ESSAY RESPONDING TO AN outbreak of racial violence in Missouri, beginning with a lynching and ending with the expulsion of some thirty black families from their homes. It was not until 1923, however, long after Twain's death, that the essay was ...
Out: on a limb the spatial politics of lynching photography.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Getting off a bus in a strange Mississippi town, a Negro visitor saw no members of the race around and asked a white man, "Where do the colored folks hang out here?" Pointing to a large tree in the public square, the white man replied, "Do you see that limb?" --Langston Hughes ...
"The people ... took exception to her remarks": Meta Warrick Fuller, Angelina Weld Grimke, and the lynching of Mary Turner.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Now when I ponder the silences, the voices that are not heard, the voices of those wounded and/or oppressed individuals who do not speak or write, I contemplate the acts of persecution, torture--the terrorism that breaks spirits, that makes creativity impossible. (hooks 7-8) <Pre> ...
Submitted for their approval: Rod Serling and the lynching of Emmett Till.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Tell all the Truth but ten it slant-- Emily Dickinson YOU ARE WATCHING TELEVISION, AND A MAN IS ABOUT TO BE LYNCHED. The year is 2215. The earth is parched and abandoned, inhabited by only two groups of people: the Dwellers and the Drivers. The Dwellers, ...
Grotesque laughter, unburied bodies, and history: shape-shifting in Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... "You make a joke like that and you jes part of the problem." --Wolf Whistle 102 LEWIS NORDAN'S 1993 BOOK WOLF WHISTLE IS A FICTIONALIZATION OF fourteen-year-old Emmett Till's murder, written by a white writer who for thirty-eight years felt the story was not his to ...
The afterlife of lynching: exhibitions and the re-composition of human suffering.('Witness: Photographs of Lynchings from the Collection of Frames Allen and John Littlefield' and 'Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America')(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... THE IDEAS I WILL PRESENT HERE ADDRESS THE ETHICS AND AESTHETICS OF representation and reception. When museums and other exhibition venues arrange, contextualize, and gloss the extant evidence of inhuman brutality and human suffering, audience members ate called upon to be both witnesses ...
Memorialization and its discontents: America's first lynching memorial.(Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, Duluth, Minnesota)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... ALTHOUGH SPECTACLE LYNCHINGS WERE UNCOMMON IN THE NORTH, EVEN less common is the commemorative impulse for such an event. On October 10, 2003, in Duluth, Minnesota, the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial---consisting primarily of sculptural relief figures, etched words, and carved quotations ...
Atrocity or nation-building? The difference is in the eye of the beholder.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images. --Guy Debord (7) "RELEASING THE REST OF THE ABU GHRAIB PHOTOGRAPHS WILL GET MORE Americans killed." This fear lies at the core of fingering debates about ...