Books published by Louisiana State University Press

Features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin's first novel, At Fault. The essays in this volume provide multiple approaches for understanding this complex work, with particular attention to the dynamics of the post-Reconstruction era.

Explores the epistemological possibilities of the 'Black world' paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its constitutive African diasporas across multiple poetic, visual, and cultural permutations.

In this guide to the amazing social, cultural, and linguistic variation within Louisiana's French-speaking region, Carl Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities.

Explores how southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s responded to Fascism, and most tellingly to the suggestion that the racial politics of Nazi Germany had a special, problematic relevance to the South and its segregated social system.

Like politics, journalism has been turned topsy-turvy by the presidency of Donald Trump. In concise, illuminating, and often personal essays, the contributors to Covering Politics in the Age of Trump take a wide-ranging view of the relationship between the forty-fifth president and the Fourth Estate.