Books for Fall/Winter 2015–2016
A Charlie Brown Religion: The Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz, page 3
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PHOTOGRAPHS—Front
cover: In his studio, Charles M. Schulz
smiles as he looks at the original drawing of his July 9, 1969, strip
in which Charlie Brown asks Lucy, “Do you ever wonder if God is
pleased with you?” courtesy of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and
Research Center, Santa Rosa, California. Back cover: TIM ISBELL/
SUN HERALD Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and First Lady
Marsha Barbour look at the damage on Point Cadet in Biloxi.
17 Alaniz Death, Disability, and the Superhero
6 Anderson Emmett Till
1 Barbour / Nash America’s Great Storm
19 Bernard / Woodward Krzysztof Kies‘lowski: Interviews
32 Blank / Kitta Diagnosing Folklore
21 Bolick / Austin Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s
23 Boyett Right to Revolt
25 Brasell The Possible South
25 Brown Beyond Bombshells
11 Burnett Gone to the Grave
31 Cash / Perry Rough South, Rural South
27 Daniel / Williams Race and the Obama Phenomenon
26 Davis Prefiguring Postblackness
33 Day, J. The Southern Manifesto
30 Day, S. Reading Like a Girl
22 Dockery / Thompson The Geology of Mississippi
7 Eichelberger Tell about Night Flowers
4 Eliason / Squire To See Them Run
10 Feintuch / Samson Talking New Orleans Music
12 Fertel The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak
24 Fischer-Hornung / Mueller Vampires and Zombies
30 Giunta / Sciorra Embroidered Stories
14 Guenin-Lelle The Story of French New Orleans
6 Hailman Return to Guntown
32 Haney The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev, Volume II
12 Heard French Quarter Manual
5 Hilpert American Cyclone
8 Horn / Huffman / Jones Lines Were Drawn
33 Howell Raised Up Down Yonder
16 Irving Michael Allred: Conversations
16 Jackson Pioneering Cartoonists of Color
27 Johnson Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos
18 Kapsis Woody Allen: Interviews, Revised and Updated
19 Keough Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews
18 Kohn Harmony Korine: Interviews
10 Laudun The Amazing Crawfish Boat
15 Levasseur / Rabalais Conversations with James Salter
2 Levingston Bright Fields
3 Lind A Charlie Brown Religion
21 Lornell / Rasmussen The Music of Multicultural America
23 Luckett Joe T. Patterson and the White South’s Dilemma
28 Martin Dancing on the Color Line
26 Maus / Donahue Post-Soul Satire
4 McHale Stable Views
13 Miller / Roberts / LaPoe Oil and Water
9 Newman / Rosen Black Baseball, Black Business
24 Nixon Resisting Paradise
9 Oestreich / Pleasant Lines of Scrimmage
28 Okafor-Newsum SoulStirrers
14 Parrish Fear and What Follows
20 Pecknold / McCusker Country Boys and Redneck Women
13 Pfeffer Southern Ladies and Suffragists
11 Pope Getting Off at Elysian Fields
5 Rollyson A Real American Character
7 Salter Jack Cristil
29 Seward / Tally Toni Morrison
15 Thomas Conversations with Barry Hannah
20 Villepastour The Yorùbá God of Drumming
31 Watson / Abadie Fifty Years after Faulkner
8 Weber Uniting Mississippi
22 Webster Mississippians in the Great War
29 Zheng African American Haiku
CARIBBEAN STUDIES • TOURISM STUDIES • GENDER STUDIES
POPULAR CULTURE • FILM STUDIES • FOLKLORE
Resisting Paradise
Vampires and Zombies
Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in
Caribbean Culture
Transcultural Migrations and Transnational
Interpretations
Angelique V. Nixon
Edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
and Monika Mueller
Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its
beaches, an influx which has deeply
affected the culture of the islands.
Resisting Paradise explores the import
of both tourism and diaspora in shaping
Caribbean identity. It examines Caribbean writers and others who confront
the region’s overdependence on the
tourist industry and address the many
ways that tourism continues the legacy
of colonialism.
Angelique V. Nixon explores the
A study of tourism in relationship between culture and sex
within the production of “paradise” and
the Caribbean and
investigates the ways in which Caribbean
how artists and
writers, artists, and activists respond to
activists resist its
and powerfully resist this production.
great allure
Forms of resistance include critiquing
exploitation, challenging dominant historical narratives, exposing tourism’s
influence on cultural and sexual identity in the Caribbean and its
diaspora, and offering alternative models of tourism and travel.
Resisting Paradise places emphasis on Caribbean people as
travelers and as cultural workers who contribute to alternative
understandings of tourism in the Caribbean. Through a unique multidisciplinary approach to comparative literary analysis, interviews,
and participant observation, Nixon analyzes the ways Caribbean cultural producers are taking control of representation. While focused
mainly on the Anglophone Caribbean, the study covers a range of
territories including Antigua, the Bahamas, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica,
as well as Trinidad and Tobago.
Nixon utilizes transnational feminist postcolonialism to
explain “resisting paradise” and the sexual-cultural politics of
tourism. With gender and sexuality at the center of her inquiry
and analysis, she grapples with the dominant role of tourism in
Caribbean life.
Angelique V. Nixon, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, is currently a
Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for Gender and Development
Studies, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
and Tobago. She is author of Saltwater Healing—A Myth Memoir
and Poems and coeditor of the multimedia project Theorizing
Homophobias in the Caribbean: Complexities of Place, Desire
and Belonging.
OCTOBER, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, 8 b&w illustrations,
bibliography, index
Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-62846-218-0
Ebook available
Caribbean Studies Series
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U NI VERSI TY PRE SS OF M I SSI SSI P P I
Contributions by Katarzyna Ancuta, Daniella
Borgia, Timothy R. Fox, Richard J. Hand, Ewan
Kirkland, Sabine Metzger, Timothy M. Robinson,
Carmen Serrano, Rasmus R. Simonsen, and
Johannes Weber
The undead are very much alive in
contemporary entertainment and lore.
Indeed, vampires and zombies have
garnered attention in print media,
cinema, and on television. The vampire,
with roots in medieval European folklore, and the zombie, with origins in
Essays that hunt down Afro-Caribbean mythology, have both
undergone significant transformations
what happens when
in global culture, proliferating as devithe undead go global
ant representatives of the zeitgeist.
As this volume demonstrates, distribution of vampires and zombies across time and space has revealed
these undead figures to carry multiple meanings. Of all monsters,
vampires and zombies seem to be the most trendy—the most regularly incarnate of the undead and the monsters most frequently represented in the media and pop culture. Moreover, both figures have
experienced radical reinterpretations. If in the past vampires were
evil, blood-sucking exploiters and zombies were brainless victims,
they now have metamorphosed into kinder and gentler blood-sucking vampires and crueler, more relentless, flesh-eating zombies.
Although the portrayals of both vampires and zombies can
be traced back to specific regions and predate mass media, the
introduction of mass distribution through film and game technologies has significantly modified their depiction over time and in new
environments. Among other topics, contributors discuss zombies
in Thai films, vampire novels of Mexico, and undead avatars in
horror videogames. This volume—with scholars from different
national and cultural backgrounds—explores the transformations
that the vampire and zombie figures undergo when they travel
globally and through various media and cultures.
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Heidelberg, Germany, is senior lecturer (retired) in the English Department and the Heidelberg Center
for American Studies, Heidelberg University. She is the editor of
Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration and founding coeditor of the interdisciplinary journal
Atlantic Studies Global Currents. Monika Mueller, Bochum,
Germany, is senior lecturer of American literature and culture at the
University of Bochum, Germany. She is the author of George Eliot
U.S.: Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Perspectives.
JANUARY, 240 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction,
9 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Printed casebinding $65.00S 978-1-4968-0474-7
Ebook available
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