MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLYPub Date : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496855442.001.0001
Thomas M. Fuerst
{"title":"Prophetic Peril","authors":"Thomas M. Fuerst","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496855442.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496855442.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on the prophetic-call narratives of Maria Stewart, Nat Turner, Julia Foote, and Richard Allen, author Thomas M. Fuerst offers insight into the unique contributions this tradition makes to American oratory, storytelling, history, ethics, theology, and protest. As Fuerst demonstrates, Turner’s call narrative subverts white, political interests and expands politics to include the resistance rhetoric and witness of those on the margins. Allen’s apologetic narration combines deeply thoughtful Protestant exegesis with a liberation theology shaped by the experience of enslavement, anchoring his rhetorical power in the experience of Black people in the nineteenth century. The call narratives of Stewart and Foote circumvent patriarchy and resist patriarchal interpretations of the Bible through biblical, embodied, dramatic, visionary appeals that sidestep persuasion and demand either acceptance or rejection. Taken together, these case studies reveal how antebellum Black preachers used religious storytelling to resist white, patriarchal oppression and assert their own voices, offering unique insight to our understanding of prophecy and resistance.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147882903","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 : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496855374.002.0006
Patrick C. Fleming
{"title":"Disney and the Victorians","authors":"Patrick C. Fleming","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496855374.002.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496855374.002.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"xi-xvii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147902410","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 : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496854605.003.0004
Ligia T. Domenech
{"title":"“Living from Hand to Mouth”","authors":"Ligia T. Domenech","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496854605.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496854605.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Before the U.S. invasion, Puerto Rico had a healthy economy, but the incoming American sugar and tobacco investors made sure that the new colonial government supported their interests only and provided them with cheap land and a large reservoir of cheap labor. A large portion of Puerto Ricans was kept under the poverty level through meager salaries. The profits created by Puerto Rican workers were taken to the Continental U.S.A. while Puerto Ricans endured, almost on their own, misery, illness, malnutrition, earthquakes, and hurricanes. It was never about the needs of the Puerto Ricans. American authors described the malnutrition they encountered but denied the existence of poverty, saw poverty as a “choice” and described it as “cheerful.” To them, misery was the fault of Puerto Ricans who were “lazy” and “squandered” their meager wages. Though U.S. imperialism fomented their poverty, it was not willing to assume responsibility for it.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"60-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147901054","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 : 2025-01-20DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496854902.003.0001
Jennifer Miller
{"title":"Reading LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books","authors":"Jennifer Miller","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496854902.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496854902.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces readers to key ideas needed to understand the text and provides short introductions to chapters.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"3-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147905028","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 : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496854544.003.0003
Amanda M. Greenwell
{"title":"The Countersurveillant Child Gaze","authors":"Amanda M. Greenwell","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496854544.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496854544.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"The <italic>countersurveillant child gaze</italic> documents institutionalized oppression and its inequitable dogma. In this mode, the child gaze confronts exclusionary practices at work in the U.S. by exposing the dangerous surveillance trained upon bodies that fall outside of accepted parameters of normativity. Considering the scholarship on surveillance, oppositional looking, and visual studies, this chapter reads such disparate texts as Jesse Jackson’s <italic>Call Me Charley</italic> (1945), Mildred Taylor’s <italic>Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry</italic> (1979), Philip Roth’s <italic>The Plot Against America</italic> (2004), and Langston Hughes’ short story “The Red-Headed Baby” from <italic>The Ways of White Folk</italic> (1934) to demonstrate the flexibility of the counter-surveillant child gaze as a narrative technique, effectively wielded by characters on a spectrum of subversively silent to overtly insistent, from aware to unaware. It also discusses implications of this way of looking in relation to idealized and Romantic notions of childhood.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"54-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147915495","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 : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496853561.003.0006
Mark Heimermann
{"title":"Never Let Them Go","authors":"Mark Heimermann","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496853561.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496853561.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter draws upon the novels <italic>One of Us</italic>, by Craig DiLouie, and <italic>Never Let Me Go</italic>, by Kazuo Ishiguro. It argues that biopolitical considerations of human life by governments end up enabling the disenfranchisement and commodification of some groups of children and adolescents for the benefit of adult populations. Both these texts understand grotesque children as in debt to the state for what limited and self-serving services it provides to such children. In such a situation, the state argues that children are ultimately only valuable if they can repay these debts. This reflects the current reality under neoliberal economic thinking.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"159-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147902809","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 : 2024-11-15DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496846679.001.0001
Carl Rollyson
{"title":"The Making of Sylvia Plath","authors":"Carl Rollyson","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496846679.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496846679.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Since her death, Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience of readers. Beyond her writing, however, interest in Plath has also been fueled in part by the tragic nature of her death. As a result, a steady stream of biographies of Plath have appeared over the last fifty-five years which mainly focus on her death or contain projections of an array of points of view about the writer. Until now, little sustained attention has been paid to the influences on Plath’s life and work. What movies did she watch? Which books did she read? How did media shape her worldview? This book explores the intricate web of literature, cinema, spirituality, psychology, and popular culture that profoundly influenced Plath’s life and writing. At the heart is a compelling exploration of William Sheldon’s seminal work, <italic>Psychology and the Promethean Will</italic>, which Plath devoured in her quest for self-discovery and understanding. Through Plath’s intense study of this work, readers gain unprecedented access to Plath’s innermost thoughts, her therapeutic treatments, and the overarching worldview that fueled her creative genius. Through Sheldon as well as Plath’s other influences, the book offers a captivating survey of the symbiotic relationship between an artist and the world around her and offers readers new insights into the enigmatic mind of one of most important writers of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147884392","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 : 2024-08-30DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496853011.001.0001
Patrick O’Connor, David Evans
{"title":"Wichita Blues","authors":"Patrick O’Connor, David Evans","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496853011.001.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496853011.001.0001","url":null,"abstract":"In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are frequently lauded. But until now, little attention has been paid to the Midwest, despite the presence and popularity of blues in these heartland communities. <italic>Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community</italic> seeks to address this gap in music history by exploring the lively Wichita blues tradition. In interviews with nineteen African American Wichita blues performers, author Patrick Joseph O’Connor reveals the evolution of the blues from the 1930s to the 1960s and beyond. Utilizing twenty-five years of fieldwork, <italic>Wichita Blues</italic> details the history of performance and camaraderie among the musicians of this often-neglected regional sound. The personal interviews offer unique insight into topics that shape Wichita’s sound, including how migration from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas brought varied artists to the area and the ways musical traditions cross racial divides and generations. The artists articulate the poetics of the blues and the diverse regional influences that can be detected in their music. In exploring the Wichita blues tradition, O’Connor traces African American history in Kansas, ranging from the Exoduster movement in the late nineteenth century and minstrel shows across the state to Black cowboys and growing urban African American communities in Topeka and Wichita. Including a foreword by renowned music scholar David Evans, <italic>Wichita Blues</italic> allows seasoned blues musicians to tell their own stories and paints a picture of the vibrant Black music scene in the city.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147890918","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 : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496852090.003.0004
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins
{"title":"Seasons At Lakeside Dairy","authors":"Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496852090.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496852090.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter details how Angus Bates ran Lakeside Milk Dairy in Shreveport, where he managed a successful dairy business, producing Grade A milk, cream cheese, and sour cream. His hard work and self-education enabled him to build a large two-story home on Talbot Street for his family. Despite initial skepticism, Angus's perseverance paid off, and his dairy business flourished. By the time of his death in 1935, Lakeside Dairy had grown substantially and played a crucial role during the 1925 fire that threatened the Allendale community, with the Bates family successfully saving their home and farm. Angus's innovative farming practices, inspired by Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, contributed to the farm's sustainability. The Bates family also overcame racial barriers and supported local Black entrepreneurship, serving primarily immigrant communities due to racial segregation. The family was actively involved in both agricultural and household tasks, including planting vegetables, managing livestock, and handling pollution challenges. Grandma Bates ran a cottage enterprise and kept meticulous records while the family maintained their traditions through seasonal celebrations. The chapter considers the shared histories of resilience and adaptation of the Bates and Leffall families, and how their story reflects the significance of family recipes and culinary heritage in maintaining traditions and contributing to their community.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"92-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147917705","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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