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Chapters: People From Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty, Jimmy Hart, Lake Speed, Shelby Foote, Thad Cochran, Dee Brown (Basketball, Born 1984), Monta Ellis, Cassandra Wilson, Alberto J. Mora, Stéphane Bonneau, John C. Stennis, Bobby Valentino, Nanette Workman, Byron de La Beckwith, William Barksdale, David Banner, Jerious Norwood, Jamaa Fanaka, Robert W. Pittman, Larry Porter, Rosalind Peychaud, Cat Cora, Othella Harrington, Willie Morris, Mo Williams, Otis Spann, George Poindexter, Rebecca Walker, Fred Smoot, Eric Tillman, Erick Dampier, Dorothy Moore, William Wirt Adams, Chad Bradford, Charlie Anderson, Jimmy Smith, Neilson Hubbard, Carl Weathersby, Joseph Nunzio Latino, Tim Whitsett, Chris Brown, Carson Whitsett, Seth Smith, Jackie Slater, Tommy Kelly, Papa Charlie Mccoy, Quinton Culberson, Walter Gordon, Johnny Carver, Doug Russell, James Robinson, Gregg Harper, Little Johnny Jones, Teddy Edwards, Alice Brown, William Winter, Pete Brown, Henry Sampson, Delbert Hosemann, Wendy Wyland, Larry Hoover, William L. Waller, Jr., Paul V. Lacoste, Pep Love, Trey Johnson, G. C. Cameron, Tom Lester, Beth Henley, Guy Hovis, Spencer Myrick, Swayze Waters, Noland Smith, Andrew H. Longino, Justin Reed, Melvin Taylor, Billy Kinard, Justin Griffith, George Adams, Byron Thames, Charles Clark, Daniel Curtis Lee, Reed Pierce, Cynthia Geary, Dent May, Roy A. Tucker, Dick Griffin, Freeman Mcneil, Will Overstreet, Randolph M. Holder, Kathryn Stockett, Alvin Mckinley, Jayme Mitchell, Lillian Mcmurry, Audie Norris, Adam Klein, Chris Maloney, Rickey Brown, Lawrence R. Ellzey, Joe Courtney, Vernon Perry, Robert E. L. Rainey, John Williams, David Dickson, Ethelbert Barksdale, William Bonner Mccarty, Tig Notaro, Mike Fuller, E. Grady Jolly, Simbi Khali, Harvey Catchings, Robert Young, Curt Ford, Reuben Webster Millsaps, Buddy Alliston, Ed Gordon, Walter Ward, Mike Espy, Larry Friday, Jim Harvey, Antonio Gibson, Doug Kenna, Cornell Warner, William Ga...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=692665 ... Read more

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Questions about the cultural interaction between whites and enslaved blacks in the antebellum South have long aroused controversy. Was there one dominant culture? Two separate cultures? One shared culture? Were interaction and interchange between the races possible? The essays collected here attempt to give answers and conclusions and to bring the picture of cultural life in the antebellum South into clearer focus.

With essays and commentaries by

Sylvia R. Frey

Elliott J. Gorn

Robert L. Hall

Charles Joyner

Lawrence T. McDonnell

Bill C. Malone

Leslie Howard Owens

Mechal Sobel

Brenda Stevenson

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In this study of the particular place from which Eudora Welty's writing arises, Fulbright Scholar Jan Nordby Gretlund contends that her writing represents the South's collective experience from the Depression to the present. Gretlund demonstrates that Welty's realistic fiction reveals an aesthetic allegiance to agrarian values, and that her "sense of place" ultimately reflects a sense of how to live. 8 halftones . ... Read more

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One of the Best on Welty
This book is a must for any Welty scholar. It is one of those rare books that I wish I could read again and again. It accomplishes much more than its modest title would suggest. Gretlund has long been one of the most erudite critics of southern lit. Teaching both in Europe and at Ole Miss, he is more objective yet has an insider's knowledge. This achievement reaffirms his place at the top of literary critics not just in Europe or America but in the world.

Reviewer from Mississippi--Get your Facts Straight
Gretlund wrote EUDORA WELTY'S AESTHETICS OF PLACE, and it is a fine book. It is not an edited volume, as the Mississippi reviewer states in his attack. I suggest putting away the bourbon bottle and getting the factscorrect before reviewing any more books.

Gretlund has no sense of place
This book with its poor selection of no names who offer their limited or non-existent wisdom on Welty should have never been published. It is further proof of the poor quality of USC Press Books these days.

Miss Welty deserves better
Miss Welty deserves more than this edited (if you can call it that) volume by this European who obviously believes that being able to wipe barbecue off on his sleeve means he understands the South and Southern writing.PLEASE.

A great book
Gretlund has really done all Welty readers a huge favour by writing this book. And for all those of you out there not yet familiar with the writings of Eudora Welty...read this book. ... Read more

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First published in 1994, Paul Binding's portrait of Eudora Welty is being reissued to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her birth. Eudora Welty was a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of numerous literary friendships and awards. She was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth-century. Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. Eudora Welty was brought up in the harsh American South when it was bedevilled both by the Depression and racial discrimination. Her acclaimed novels and short stories however are imbued with compassion and optimism, while also revealing her extraordinary gift for inhabiting the inner world of her characters.Paul Binding knew Eudora Welty, and in this book he draws on the many conversations he had with both her and her friends and fellow writers. The Still Moment presents a critical portrait of a remarkable mind and a profoundly humanist writer. ... Read more

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Seminar paper from the year 1995 in the subject American Studies - Literature, printed single-sided, grade: very good, University of Bamberg (Language and Literature Sciences), course: U. S. Women Writers of the 19. and 20. Century, 3 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In 1955, Eudora Welty published "The Bride of Innisfallen", a collection of seven stories including "No Place for You, My Love". The short story takes the readers on a couple's journey into the bayou country south of New Orleans where the two main characters try to find fulfillment of love. Before the author goes into detail about this unusual trip, she wants to give a brief outline of the plot and characterize the protagonists and focus on their relationship. Although the characters are important, here the most interesting and fascinating part of the story is the journey itself because it reflects the relationship. In the following chapters the author concentrates on the trip's development and the atmosphere created around it before finishing with an explanation of the point-of-view used. ... Read more

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Most critics of southern novelist Eudora Welty have analyzed her work with a primary focus on her southern background. Gygax presents an entirely different interpretation to show how Welty's narrative techniques establish female authority and frequently undermine patriarchal values. Gygax examines Delta Wedding, The Golden Apples, Losing Battles and The Optimist's Daughter and argues that Welty indirectly and subtly created a "radical vision" of a female world. The study applies feminist literary theory when considering the various narrative structures of each novel. ... Read more

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Readers Guides to Short Stories seriesSeries Editor: Everett EmersonEach volume in the Readers Guides to Short Stories Series is a comprehensive, critical, and historical guide to the short stories of a major author.Each volume features:-individual chapters devoted to each short story-complete information on the circumstances of the storys composition, its publication history, relationship to other works in the authors canon, scholarly interpretation, and critical status-a complete bibliography of criticism for each storyThe subject of ever-growing critical attention and admiration, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty is emerging as one of the most innovative writers of the short story of this century.This guide offers a compilation of the scholarship and commentary on the 41 stories published in Collected Storiesincluding Petrified Man, Why I Live at the P.O., Death of a Traveling Salesman, and The Purple Hat. ... Read more

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This companion publication to a marvelous exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art (from April 6 through June 30, 2002) presents a selection of Eudora Welty's black-and-white photographs taken in the 1930s and shows how this acclaimed writer's second career as a photographer produced works that rank favorably with the visual art of her contemporaries.

More than just a chronicle, this book features Welty among artists of her Deep South region (Walter Anderson, Richmond Barthé, William Hollingsworth Jr., Marie Hull, John McCrady, and Karl Wolfe) and from the nation (Berenice Abbott, Thomas Hart Benton, Margaret Bourke-White, Walker Evans, Edward Hopper, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, Grant Wood, and others).

Included are twenty-seven of Welty's photographs and reproductions of other artworks from the exhibition, most in full color.

This book is an exciting revelation of Welty, known chiefly as a fiction writer, as a power among visual artists as well.

René Paul Barilleaux, deputy director for programs at the Mississippi Museum of Art, is the co-curator of the exhibition on which this book is based.

Suzanne Marrs, a noted Welty scholar, is a professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss.

Patti Carr Black, co-curator of this exhibition and a former director of the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Mississippi, is the author of many books, including Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980 (University Press of Mississippi).

Francis V. O'Connor, a historian of American art and a specialist on New Deal art programs, lives in New York City. ... Read more

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The essays collected in this volume examine the range of Welty's talent. Originally prepared for the Eye of the Storyeller Conference on Eudora Welty held at the University of Akron, 17-19 September 1987, these essays bring together work by some of the Welty scholars writing today. The originating idea of the conference was power - a topic not often linked to Welty. But power, subtle and overt, demonstrated by technique and vision, is central to most of the analyses. Some critics elected to treat technical manifestations of power as revealed through Welty's experiments in voice and style. Others chose to view power as it is exercised in communities or by the individual in conflict with that community. ... Read more

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The Best of Everything
I wasn't that crazy about Dr. Marrs' biography of the troubled Southern writer, and I'm afraid I let her have it on [...].

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The book is handsomely illustrated with a selection of Welty's own fine, evocative photographs, reproduced adequately from the original negatives, which form part of the collection.

Her correspondence is annotated, so we can see that Welty was a favorite of many Broadway and Hollywood stars as early as the 1950s, and an autograph hound would have a great time reading this fan mail from such greats as Julie Harris, Una Merkel, Maurice Evans, John Houseman, and Geraldine Fitzgerald.I wonder if the estate couldn't actually create a small keepsake book based on her mail from famous actresses who loved playing eccentric Southern women in adaptations of Welty's work.

Good work, Dr. Marrs.I hope someday you expand your work here to include the complete range of Welty's writing, both published and not.Reading this book is like the promise of a new day, filled with strange smells and tantalizing glimpses of a mind both at its peak, and later, not doing so great, but still soldiering on valiantly. ... Read more