Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1353/mss.2022.a905466
Philip Smith
{"title":"Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America ed. by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield (review)","authors":"Philip Smith","doi":"10.1353/mss.2022.a905466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2022.a905466","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42645989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1353/mss.2022.a905465
Bailey Rhodes
{"title":"The Weirdness of Post-Traumatic Identity in Katherine Anne Porter's \"Pale Horse, Pale Rider\"","authors":"Bailey Rhodes","doi":"10.1353/mss.2022.a905465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2022.a905465","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48331736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1353/mss.2022.a905464
Karl F. Zender
ARTICLE WILL EXAMINE THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF M INK S NOPES , AS they are depicted in The Hamlet, revisited briefly in The Town, then substantially expanded in The Mansion, the three novels of William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy. Its focus will fall on a collocation of activities central to Mink’s story, of livestock allowed to range freely, of (deliberately) uninstalled fencing, and of the resultant imposition of pound fees. In exploring this combination of activities
{"title":"William Faulkner's Mink Snopes and Southern Livestock Control Practices","authors":"Karl F. Zender","doi":"10.1353/mss.2022.a905464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2022.a905464","url":null,"abstract":"ARTICLE WILL EXAMINE THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF M INK S NOPES , AS they are depicted in The Hamlet, revisited briefly in The Town, then substantially expanded in The Mansion, the three novels of William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy. Its focus will fall on a collocation of activities central to Mink’s story, of livestock allowed to range freely, of (deliberately) uninstalled fencing, and of the resultant imposition of pound fees. In exploring this combination of activities","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44662029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Traveling Word: Eudora Welty’s Literary Correspondence with the Postal South","authors":"Donnie McMahand, Kevin L. Murphy","doi":"10.1353/mss.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48216387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Civilization, Outlawry, and a Declaration of Independence in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn","authors":"Terrell L. Tebbetts","doi":"10.1353/mss.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42635621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JESMYN WARD’S 2017 NOVEL, SING, UNBURIED, SING, TELLS THE STORY OF Jojo, a thirteen-year-old biracial boy in coastal Mississippi, and his family as they struggle to navigate issues of grief and addiction rooted in the generational trauma of racist oppression. When Jojo’s father Michael, a former meth cook, is released from the Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman Farm, Jojo accompanies his mother Leonie, baby sister Kayla, and questionable family friend Misty on a road trip across the state to bring Michael home. Although the family is temporarily reunited, theirs is not a happy ending. Grandmother and matriarch Philomène dies of cancer; Jojo learns the horrific truth about his beloved grandfather River’s own time as a prisoner; and Leonie and Michael’s meth addiction intensifies. Anxious and restless, Jojo begins walking the woods near his home. In the final pages of the novel, such a walk leads him to something strange: a tree full of ghosts, with birdlike spirits perched two or three to a branch “all the way up to the top, to the feathered leaves” (282). The vision, which Kayla also sees when she and River follow Jojo, evokes the horrors of lynching, the “strange fruit” of Abel Meeropol’s poem and Billie Holiday’s famous song. Readers might also think of the tree of crucifixion, or the baobab tree of African legend.1 Considered alongside the ghosts’ behavior, however—
{"title":"Mapping the Lost Home: Psalm 137 and Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing","authors":"Rachel Ewing","doi":"10.1353/mss.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"JESMYN WARD’S 2017 NOVEL, SING, UNBURIED, SING, TELLS THE STORY OF Jojo, a thirteen-year-old biracial boy in coastal Mississippi, and his family as they struggle to navigate issues of grief and addiction rooted in the generational trauma of racist oppression. When Jojo’s father Michael, a former meth cook, is released from the Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman Farm, Jojo accompanies his mother Leonie, baby sister Kayla, and questionable family friend Misty on a road trip across the state to bring Michael home. Although the family is temporarily reunited, theirs is not a happy ending. Grandmother and matriarch Philomène dies of cancer; Jojo learns the horrific truth about his beloved grandfather River’s own time as a prisoner; and Leonie and Michael’s meth addiction intensifies. Anxious and restless, Jojo begins walking the woods near his home. In the final pages of the novel, such a walk leads him to something strange: a tree full of ghosts, with birdlike spirits perched two or three to a branch “all the way up to the top, to the feathered leaves” (282). The vision, which Kayla also sees when she and River follow Jojo, evokes the horrors of lynching, the “strange fruit” of Abel Meeropol’s poem and Billie Holiday’s famous song. Readers might also think of the tree of crucifixion, or the baobab tree of African legend.1 Considered alongside the ghosts’ behavior, however—","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46208127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ethics of Unmeaning: Noise and the Non-inscribable Slave Voice","authors":"Edward R. Piñuelas","doi":"10.1353/mss.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42635276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature by Jolene Hubbs (review)","authors":"D. Davis","doi":"10.1353/mss.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41753609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heidegger’s Idea of Dwelling: Narrative Style in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying","authors":"Colleen Shuching Wu","doi":"10.1353/mss.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45550344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whitman's Sketches of New Orleans: A City, and an Artist, by Glimpses","authors":"B. O’Neill","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43495398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}