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The first collection of interviews with the groundbreaking Choctaw author, whose genre-bending works take place in the US Southeast, Oklahoma, and beyond American borders to bring Native American characters and themes to the global stage.

Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French novel, Amitie et devouement, ou Trois mois a la Louisiane. E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White have recovered this work, providing a translation, an accessible introduction, and period illustrations.

Quyn Vn Minh is one of the most preeminent jazz musicians in Vietnam. Considered a pioneer in the country, Minh is often publicly recognised as the 'godfather of Vietnamese jazz'. This book tells the story of the music as it intertwined with Minh's own narrative.

Reframes our understanding of the history of the girls' book and provides insightful readings of forgotten bestsellers. The book also outlines an alternate model for imagining adolescence and supporting adolescent girls. The awkward adolescent girl remains a valuable resource for understanding contemporary girls and stories about them.

Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard, two sister-writers born and raised in Jamaica, re-create imagined and lived homelands in their literature by commemorating the history, culture, and religion of the Caribbean. Drawing on interviews with the authors, this is the first book to give Brodber and Pollard their due.

Black Panther is one of the most successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. Terence McSweeney explores the film from a range of perspectives, seeing it not only as a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to African and African American studies.

Breaks new ground by comparing the politics of resistance alongside moments of improvisation by examining recurring literary motifs - cry-and-response, the Wild Woman, and the jazz moment - in jazz novels, short stories, and poetry.

Lyrically and spiritually connects readers with the natural world. Donald Jackson explores the rhythms and ways of hunting and fishing, particularly in America's Deep South, and in so doing helps readers understand and find meaning in why hunters and anglers venture far afield.

Drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in receive less recognition than their male counterparts. Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, arguing that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region.

Vividly presents children's voices. Including over six hundred handclaps, chants, jokes, jump-rope rhymes, cheers, taunts, and teases, this book takes the reader through a fifty-year history of child speech as it has influenced children's lives.

The untold story of the Philippine Constabulary Band offers a unique opportunity to examine the limits and porousness of America's racial ideologies, exploring musical pleasure at the intersection of Euro-American cultural hegemony, racialization, and US colonization of the Philippines.

Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou's African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti.

Explores the people who made a home in the Ozarks and the ways they contributed to American popular culture. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Thomas Michael Kersen argues the area attracts and even nurtures people and groups on the margins of the mainstream.

Fred Schepisi is one of the crucial names associated with the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. The Films of Fred Schepisi traces the lead-up to his critical successes in feature filmmaking, via his earlier award-winning success as a producer in advertising commercials in the 1960s and the setting up of his own company.

Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson (1835-1906) was born a slave but went on to become a wealthy businessman, grocer, politician, publisher, and religious leader. Alicia Jackson presents a biography of Anderson and in it a microhistory of Black religious life and politics after emancipation.

To date, most texts regarding higher education in the Civil War South focus on the widespread closure of academies. In contrast, Persistence through Perilbrings to life several case histories of southern colleges and universities that persisted through the perilous war years.

To date, most texts regarding higher education in the Civil War South focus on the widespread closure of academies. In contrast, Persistence through Perilbrings to life several case histories of southern colleges and universities that persisted through the perilous war years.

Features twenty-one conversations with musicians who have had at least fifty years of professional experience. Appealing to casual fans and jazz aficionados alike, these interviews have been carefully, but minimally edited by Peter Zimmerman for sense and clarity, without changing any of the musicians' actual words.

Robert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of The Walking Dead, yet Kirkman represents much more than this single comic book title. Robert Kirkman: Conversations gives insight to his journey and explores technique, creativity, collaboration, and the business of comics as a multimedia phenomenon.

Robert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of The Walking Dead, yet Kirkman represents much more than this single comic book title. Robert Kirkman: Conversations gives insight to his journey and explores technique, creativity, collaboration, and the business of comics as a multimedia phenomenon.

Examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. The volume draws on approaches from fields as diverse as sociology, political science, history, folklore, communication studies, and business, among others, to study the social life of comics and graphic novels.

Examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. The volume draws on approaches from fields as diverse as sociology, political science, history, folklore, communication studies, and business, among others, to study the social life of comics and graphic novels.

These conversations with Russell Banks span a period of over thirty years, from 1976 with the publication of his first novel, Family Life, and his first collection of short stories, to 2008 with The Reserve. Most date from the late 1990s on when Banks became 'Hollywood's Hottest New Property'.

A key concern in postwar America was "e;who's passing for whom?"e; Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling from a hot war and moving towards a cold one. After World War II, passing became an important theme in Hollywood movies, one that lasted throughout the long 1950s, as it became a metaphor to express postwar anxiety.The potent, imagined fear of passing linked the language and anxieties of identity to other postwar concerns, including cultural obsessions about threats from within. Passing created an epistemological conundrum that threatened to destabilize all forms of identity, not just the longstanding American color line separating white and black. In the imaginative fears of postwar America, identity was under siege on all fronts. Not only were there blacks passing as whites, but women were passing as men, gays passing as straight, communists passing as good Americans, Jews passing as gentiles, and even aliens passing as humans (and vice versa).Fears about communist infiltration, invasion by aliens, collapsing gender and sexual categories, racial ambiguity, and miscegenation made their way into films that featured narratives about passing. N. Megan Kelley shows that these films transcend genre, discussing Gentleman's Agreement, Home of the Brave, Pinky, Island in the Sun, My Son John, Invasion of the Body-Snatchers, I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Rebel without a Cause, Vertigo, All about Eve, and Johnny Guitar, among others.Representations of passing enabled Americans to express anxieties about who they were and who they imagined their neighbors to be. By showing how pervasive the anxiety about passing was, and how it extended to virtually every facet of identity, Projections of Passing broadens the literature on passing in a fundamental way. It also opens up important counter-narratives about postwar America and how the language of identity developed in this critical period of American history.

On March 5, 1959, Luvenia Long was listening to gospel music when a news bulletin interrupted her radio program. Fire had engulfed the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville. Her son was among the twenty-one boys who burned to death. Black Boys Burning presents a focused explanation of how systemic poverty perpetuated by white supremacy sealed the fate of those students.

Prohibition, with all its crime, corruption, and cultural upheaval, ran its course in thirteen years in most of the US - but not in Memphis, where it lasted thirty. Patrick O'Daniel takes a fresh look at those responsible for the rise and fall of Prohibition, its effect on Memphis, and the impact events in the city had on the rest of the country.

From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the Negro Leagues (1920-1960), black baseball was a long-standing staple of African American communities. While many of its artifacts and statistics are lost, black baseball figured vibrantly in films, novels, plays, and poems. In Invisible Ball of Dreams, Emily Ruth Rutter examines wide-ranging representations of this history.