Books published by University Press of Mississippi

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.

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.

In 1963, at the height of the southern civil rights movement, Cecil Brathwaite, under the pseudonym Cecil Elombe Brath, published a satire of Black leaders entitled Color Us Cullud! The American Negro Leadership Official Coloring Book. This book restores the book and its creator to a place of prominence in the historiography of the Black left.

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.

Presents interviews from across Otto Preminger's career, providing fascinating insights into the methods and mindset of a wildly polarizing filmmaker. With remarkable candour, Preminger discusses his filmmaking practices, his distinctive film style, his battles against censorship, his clashes with film critics, and his turbulent relationships.

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.

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.

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.

The first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century's most incisive authors on US slavery and the long ordeal of race in the Americas. Contributors examine the constitutive links among slavery, capitalism, and modernity across Faulkner's oeuvre.