Books published by University of Georgia Press

During the 1950s and early 1960s Flannery O'Connor wrote more than a hundred book reviews for two Catholic diocesan newspapers in Georgia. This full collection of these reviews nearly doubles the number that have appeared in print elsewhere and represents a significant body of primary materials from the O'Connor canon.

Pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. Cleanth Brooks writes of the language's unique syntax and its celebrated languorous rhythms; of the classical allusions and Addisonian locutions once favoured by the gentry; and of the more earthbound eloquence that is still heard in the speech of the region's plain folk.

Malin Pereira's collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post-Black Arts Movement generation.

A collection of essays, which explore the terrain of childhood threatened by the lure of computers and television, by fear and the loss of play habitat, showing how kids thrive in their special places. It suggests ways kids both young and old can experience the wonder found only in the natural world.

A collection of prose poems about seventies soul singer Donny Hathaway that presents a complex view of a gifted artist through imagined conversations and interviews that convey the voices, surroundings, and clashing dimensions of Hathaway's life.

Includes contributions by planners, architects, policymakers, and geographers from across the political spectrum who have weighed in on how best to respond to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

A collection of twelve essays that focus on a number of provocative personal, professional, and literary ambiguities existing between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It also covers topics such as professional competitiveness; Melville's search for a father figure; and, masculine ambivalence in the marketplace.

Offers a look at poetry, novels, speeches, sermons, and prayers by black women writers. This title discusses how such texts respond as a collective'literary witness' to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination.

Hersey shows that in the hands of pioneers like Carver, Progressive Era agronomy was actually considerably "greener" than is often thought today. He uses Carver's life story to explore aspects of southern environmental history and to place this important scientist within the early conservation movement.

A study of how the local struggle for equality in Alabama fared in the wake of federal laws - the Civil Rights Act, the Economic Opportunity Act, and the Voting Rights Act. It looks at the interactions among local activists, elected officials, and bureaucrats who were involved in or affected by Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) projects.

Tullos explores the recent history of one of the nation's most conservative states to reveal its political imaginary-the public shape of power, popular imagery, and individual opportunity-and asks if the coming years will see a transformation of the "Heart of Dixie."

A comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony.

Tracing the origins of Americans' ideas about trial by jury, this book provides the first detailed analysis of jury discrimination. Explaining how, in 1906, a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall was able to force the court to overturn state law and precedent at the behest of the U.S. Supreme Court, the author explores the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on America's civil rights history.

Challenges the definitions of southern fiction and regional identity while reconfiguring the myths of the West that have shaped American life. This book points toward a literary tradition and a regional and national mythology that blends place and space, settlement and movement, community and individualism, security and freedom.