{"title":"\"The Same Uniform with White Men\": Military Costume, African American War Experience, and Faulkner's Flags in the Dust","authors":"Steven Trout","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.a921509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.a921509","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The US Army uniform issued to Caspey Strother, an African American World War I veteran in William Faulkner's <i>Flags in the Dust</i>, is freighted with contested political meaning. This article shows how the novel works to undermine the connection between military attire and citizenship (in the case of Black soldiers) and illuminates an ironic subtextual kinship between Caspey and his creator. In addition, the article places Caspey's uniform within a larger pattern of references in the text to military material culture, a pattern that ultimately points to the incompatibility of the southern warrior ideal with the realities of armed conflict in the twentieth century.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140075557","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}
{"title":"Vorticism and Iron: Architectural Dialogue in Faulkner's \"Mirrors of Chartres Street\"","authors":"Amy Foley","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.a921511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.a921511","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>William Faulkner shows the objective and subjective world in intimate dialogue throughout his fiction. His pattern of representing bodies in conversation with buildings through movement and perception is integral to his vision of embodied experience. This article demonstrates how Faulkner employs competing romantic and modernist architectures in service of a descriptive ontology and a new theory of architecture. In \"Mirrors of Chartres Street,\" Faulkner offers a new mode of building that rejects the use of property or tools, heroizing the body itself as a means of building and dwelling.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140075612","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}
{"title":"Seeing \"The Death of Mann\"","authors":"James Manigault-Bryant","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.a921512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.a921512","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay celebrates John Wilson's visual masterpiece, <i>The Richard Wright Suite</i> (2001), a series of six elegant etchings that reimagine Richard Wright's novella, \"Down by the Riverside.\" Wilson's images, and the story that inspired them, remember lives lost to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. Just as Wright's novella has been associated with accounts of the flood lyricized in blues music, Wilson's etchings visualize the blues by depicting the Mississippi River as a striking blue stream. Laboriously crafted in aquatint, the river not only memorializes the power of climate disasters fomented by industrial capitalism, but honors those Black lives claimed in their devastation.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140075556","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}
{"title":"Tennessee's New South: Marquita Bradshaw and Her Call for Environmental Justice","authors":"Phil Scholer","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.a921513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.a921513","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2020 Marquita Bradshaw became the first African American woman to win a state-wide race in Tennessee, soaring past her establishment opponents to clinch the Democratic primary for United States Senate. Throughout her campaign, Bradshaw evoked the increasingly popular progressive rallying cry \"New South.\" Bradshaw's vision for a New South is characterized by her call for environmental justice. By speaking about her personal experience with environmental racism, Bradshaw organized a compelling campaign rooted in environmental justice and economic equity based on class solidarity. This article analyzes the powerful yet often overlooked part of Bradshaw's campaign: the religious underpinnings of her environmental justice advocacy. It also examines the historical significance of Bradshaw's use of the term \"New South\" and how Bradshaw interprets Memphis journalist Ida B. Wells as an inspiration for her movement.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"281 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140075558","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}
{"title":"John Egerton's The Americanization of Dixie: A Fifty-Year Retrospective","authors":"Christopher Strain","doi":"10.1353/mss.2023.a921510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2023.a921510","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>2024 marks the fifty-year anniversary of the publication of John Egerton's <i>The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America</i> (1974), a seminal work on regional and national identity. What did this book get right? What did it get wrong? Fifty years later, it still resonates. From states' rights to gun rights, from immigration to Black voter disfranchisement, from the resurgence of white supremacy to the ongoing significance of race in American life, various issues demonstrate not only how the South has Americanized but also how the nation on the whole has southernized.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140075595","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}
{"title":"Conversations with Ben Okri","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/jj.12638988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.12638988","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147908996","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 : 2024-01-30DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496848598.003.0013
Delia Malia Konzett
{"title":"Black and Blue in Florida","authors":"Delia Malia Konzett","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496848598.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496848598.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the intersection of gay and black identity in Barry Jenkins’s <italic>Moonlight</italic>. This sociological intersection is amplified by the film’s complex use of film genres such as the inner-city ghetto genre alongside an arthouse genre focusing on poetic modes of belonging as represented in Florida’s fecund landscape captured with stunning cinematography. This complication of filmic representation produces new and unexpected insights into a biography too quickly written off as a sociological fact or as an expression of identity politics. Instead, the film follows the coming-of-age story, told in elliptical fashion, of its main protagonist Little/Chiron/Black navigating the available symbolic options in search of a community. The film also reflects the complex settlement history of Florida in its multinational and global perspective.","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"225-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147889653","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}
{"title":"A Conversation with the Nobel Prize-Winning Author of The Museum of Innocence","authors":"Bigthink.com","doi":"10.2307/jj.9827037.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.9827037.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":"102-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147912119","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}