Books published by University of Georgia Press

Contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, this celebrated critic discusses work by older and younger poets, most American but some foreign, and many of whom were not yet part of the contemporary canon.

You'll see how beautiful it is in the morning - jungle all around us"" says one of the characters in Anne Raeff's story collection. The jungle in these stories is both metaphorical and real, taking the reader from war-torn Europe to Bolivia and from suburban New Jersey to Vietnam.

Examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles. Donna Campbell looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and others and positions their work within the naturalistic canon that arose near the turn of the twentieth century.

Offers the first critical history of the influential Southern Newspaper Syndicate, from its roots in the 1930s through its end in the 1950s. At its heyday, more than 240 papers were associated with the Syndicate, making it one of the biggest organs of the black press during the period leading up to the classic civil rights era (1955-68).

Presents scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. The collection features broadly themed essays on religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions.

Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange.

Drawing on a detailed case study of the struggles that have come to define public transportation in California's East Bay, Rights in Transit offers a challenge to contemporary scholarship on transportation equity. Rather than focusing on civil rights alone, this book argues for engaging the more radical notion of the right to the city.

With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholars take seriously what he calls black religious attitudes, that is, enduring and deep-seated dispositions tied to a transformative ideal that compel individuals to be otherwise - no matter the risk.

Examines the patterns of migration flows during the post-World War II period, with particular attention to crises or shocks to the international system, as in the case of migration following the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria. The authors' analysis makes several important contributions to this debate.

As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview.

Analyses the fraught location of Appalachians within the southern and American imaginaries, building on studies of race in literary and cinematic characterizations of the American South. Not only do we know what ""rednecks"" are, Meredith McCarroll argues, we rely on the use of such categories in fashioning our broader sense of self and other.

Explores the ways in which Appalachia served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew Swanson builds on recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region long considered a homogenous backwater.

These private writings by a prominent white southern lawyer offer insight into his state's embrace of massive white resistance following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. They offer an insider's view of Virginia's shift toward extremism in defiance of school desegregation.

Focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War along this critical geographical, political, and social fault line.