Bücher der Reihe Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty

Considers such topics as Welty's uses of African American signifying in her short stories and her attention to public street performances interacting with Jim Crow rules in her unpublished photographs. Contributors also discuss her adaptations of gothic plots, haunted houses, Civil War stories, and film noir.

Considers such topics as Welty's uses of African American signifying in her short stories and her attention to public street performances interacting with Jim Crow rules in her unpublished photographs. Contributors also discuss her adaptations of gothic plots, haunted houses, Civil War stories, and film noir.

Daniele Pitavy-Souques was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty's view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty's fiction, memoir, and photographs in illuminating ways.

There are over eighty images in Exposing Mississippi, including some never-before-seen archival photographs. The chapters on institutional, leisure, and memorial landscapes address how Eudora Welty's photographs contribute to, reflect on, and intervene in customary visual constructions of the Depression-era South.