MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2025-05-19DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496857071.003.0009
Tom Mould, Rae Nell Vaughn
{"title":"Animal Stories","authors":"Tom Mould, Rae Nell Vaughn","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496857071.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496857071.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The other type of shokhanno̱pa are animal tales, a genre of folktale common throughout the world but articulated here with specific Choctaw values, characters, and contexts. Like Aesop’s fables and Joel Chandler Harris’ Bre’r Rabbit stories, these tales depict animals with human characteristics, balancing our worst traits—vanity, jealousy, pride, and greed—with our best—cleverness, wit, and intelligence. Egos clash and bravado is mocked. The physically strong are inevitably defeated by the smaller, wilier animals. The winners in these contests often enjoy a laugh as their reward; the losers fare far worse, losing not merely their dignity but often their food, the fur on their tails, or even their lives. Many stories include the added etiological flourish that explains why the rabbit’s skin is loose, the racoon’s tail striped, the turtle’s shell fractured, and the deer, not the frog, has horns today.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"231-258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147884901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2025-05-19DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496856265.003.0002
drea brown
{"title":"Waking the Ghost","authors":"drea brown","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496856265.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496856265.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter establishes haunting—the evidence of past social violence and harm pervading the present, the return of the repressed, an alternative route of knowledge and strategy for reclamation—as the central focus of this book in relation to Black women’s lives and mourning poems. It provides an overview of Christina Sharpe’s multifarious concept of “wake” to frame Black being and survival in the afterlife of slavery, and ascertains an interwoven relationship between wakes, haunting, and grief.The chapter identifies key concepts such as haint and haint elegy as pertinent to the discussion of Black women as both the haunted and the thing haunting, and ultimately positions Black women poets as conjurers and haint elegies as spaces of lament and repair.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"7-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147885042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496857583.003.0056
Frank Perez
{"title":"Southern Decadence","authors":"Frank Perez","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496857583.003.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496857583.003.0056","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter traces the evolution of Southern Decadence from its 1972 origins as a small house party among friends into one of New Orleans's largest annual events, drawing over 250,000 participants each Labor Day weekend. It explains how the festival expands from intimate gatherings to the Grand Marshal's Parade, highlighting traditions such as themes, colors, songs, and charities that develop over time. The chapter underscores tensions between the event's spirit of friendship and hedonism and the commercialization that benefits local businesses but sometimes diminishes its communal roots. It also explores the institution of the Grand Marshal and illustrates it through Tiffany Alexander's leadership in 2011. Finally, the chapter reflects on the unprecedented cancellation of Southern Decadence in 2020 due to COVID-19, which marks a historic return to its earliest conception as a private party.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"173-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147920880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496857583.003.0082
Frank J. Perez
{"title":"A Pride Parade to Remember","authors":"Frank J. Perez","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496857583.003.0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496857583.003.0082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"240-242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147890704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496857583.003.0005
Frank Perez
{"title":"The Lost Krewes of Gay Carnival","authors":"Frank Perez","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496857583.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496857583.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"16-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147898370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2025-04-21DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496856340.003.0003
Carolynne Hitter Brown
{"title":"Stabilizing Structures and Spontaneous Song","authors":"Carolynne Hitter Brown","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496856340.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496856340.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter demonstrates how many African Americans continued treasured forms of religious worship and song creation, despite the uplift ideology of leadership. These forms included the Holiness tradition, women's home groups, bush meetings, mission churches, and other gatherings outside of Sunday service that were sites of Black resistance to both Black and white confinements. These fought-for opportunities nurtured authentic musical and religious expression even as freedom, cultural blending, and the pursuit of democracy stimulated new questions of identity for the Black Church. Historical record shows the expanding palette of choices nineteenth-century Black church members could choose from when it came to musical expression in worship.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"50-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147893462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2025-04-21DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496857859.003.0005
Jeremy Johnston
{"title":"Mental Health and Masculine Silence in Adib Khorram’s Darius the Great is not Okay","authors":"Jeremy Johnston","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496857859.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496857859.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses how adolescent boys’ mental health in Adib Khorram’s YA novel Darius the Great Is Not Okay (2018) is primarily informed by the concept of “masculine silence.” Masculine silence is a feature of male conditioning that pressures young boys into adopting an apathetic and stoic posture in response to pain (physical, mental, or emotional), trauma, or mental distress. This chapter argues that Khorram’s novel offers both implicit and explicit critiques of how masculine silence informs young boys’ perspectives on mental health, preventing them from finding sustainable outlets for their emotional and psychological distress and leading them toward suicidal ideation. Thus, Khorram’s novel illustrates how young boys struggle to handle their emotions and distress while also spotlighting how analyses of mental health care for adolescent boys must account for the ways masculine silence informs their experiences.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"85-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147890482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2025-04-15DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496856777.003.0002
James C. Taylor
{"title":"Truth, Justice, and the Cinematic Way","authors":"James C. Taylor","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496856777.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496856777.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter demonstrates the use of the analytical framework established in the book’s introduction through analysis of <italic>Superman: The Movie</italic> and situates the superhero blockbuster in the context of 1970s post-classical Hollywood’s emerging blockbuster paradigm. The chapter begins by mapping the Superman franchise’s development across texts in various media produced in the forty years preceding <italic>The Movie</italic>’s release, exploring how Superman’s identifying motifs develop as they are adapted between media. It then examines the ways in which <italic>The Movie</italic>’s stylistic strategies adapt, and position the film in relation to, these pre-existing Superman texts. The film’s cinematic significance is probed through exploring how it exemplifies contemporary Hollywood blockbuster practices of spectacle and genre hybridity, while demonstrating the ways in which it harnesses these qualities to situate its iteration of Superman in relation to previous versions. The chapter ends by surveying the impact that <italic>The Movie</italic> had on subsequent Superman texts.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"34-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147909920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2025-04-07DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496856128.003.0016
Bernard F. Dick
{"title":"A Less-Than-Grand- Finale","authors":"Bernard F. Dick","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496856128.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496856128.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines Cole Porter's final musical venture, <italic>Aladdin</italic> , a 1958 live CBS television production created in response to the success of Rodgers and Hammerstein's <italic>Cinderella</italic> (1957). Despite its prestigious creative team, strong cast, and Porter's score, the show falters due to S. J. Perleman's unfocused book, which privileges the sorcerer Sui-Jamal over Aladdin, leaving the romantic leads underdeveloped and musically uninspired. While Cyril Ritchard steals the spotlight with Porter's witty songs, other performers struggle with limited material, and the telecast controversially omits Basil Rathbone's song “Wouldn't It Be Fun?” A 1959 London stage version, revised by Peter Coke, restructures the narrative with pantomime elements, new characters, and a stronger cast under Robert Helpmann's direction, achieving greater success. Finally, the chapter reflects on Porter's declining health, his retirement, and his death in 1964.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"185-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147920165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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