Controversy and Hope commemorates the civil rights legacy of James Karales (1930-2002), a professional photojournalist who documented the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights with a dedica
Contemporary Coptic Nuns reveals a world rarely seen by outsiders - the world of the nuns who worship and serve as part of the largest community of indigenous Christians in the Middle East. One of the
In Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones's award-winning works as well as the significant influences that have shaped his craft. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Jones has
The intoxicating "champagne air" of Flat Rock, North Carolina, captivated residents of lowcountry South Carolinain the nineteenth century because it offered them respite from the sickly, sem
In Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Chilean poet and novelist whose work brought global attention to Latin American li
In Understanding Jonathan Coe, the first full-length study of the British novelist, Merritt Moseley surveys a writer whose experimental technique has become increasingly well received and critically a
Edited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr., Becoming Southern Writers pays tribute to South Carolinian Charles Joyner's fifty year career as a southern historian, fo
The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects tackles one of the thorniest and longest-standing issues in the discipline of rhetoric--the issue of effects. While the field's founders valued the
Known as a best selling American novelist, Dickey (1923-97) was also devoted to literary criticism and teaching. After his death, a transcription of his lectures was found among his papers, and is her
A collection of previously unpublished correspondence between American artist Marsden Hartley and avant-garde impresario, editor, and photographer Alfred Stieglitz, My Dear Stieglitz chronicles Hartl
At Freedom's Door rescues from obscurity the identities, images, and long-term contributions of black leaders who helped to rebuild and reform South Carolina after the Civil War. In seven essays, the
Beth Henley remains best known for Crimes of the Heart. In this introduction to the Mississippi-born playwright and her body of work, Robert J. Andreach presents Henley's plays as a unified whole, co
Clothey (emeritus religion, U. of Pittsburgh) has assembled nine studies he wrote and published over the past two decades on people of southern Indian who have established communities in such places a
