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The literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed when Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This book places Dylan the artist within a long tradition of literary production and offers an innovative way of understanding his unique, and often controversial, methods of composition.

Presents letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, and in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised.

Provides a study of the depictions of women's executions in Renaissance England.

An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century. Alan Levenson recaptures the life, works, and milieu of the Romanian-born, English-educated, American belletrist Maurice Samuel.

A kaleidoscopic sequence of autofictional narratives about identity, grief, and narrative itself

Traces the life and career of an admirable and lesser-known civil rights figure who fought injustice on two continents. This account presents valuable new evidence about the civil rights movement in the United States as well as human rights and liberation issues in colonial Southern Rhodesia in the years leading up to independence and self-rule.

Essays in part one of this volume address theatrical production in very specific historical contexts, among them German theatre "from the rubble of Berlin" and German nationalist mass spectacles. Essays in part two are devoted to the theme of "Rethinking the Maternal" in contemporary and historical theatre.

Chronicles the experiences of Alabama Jews as they worked to overcome their own divisions in order to aid European Jews before, during, and after the Second World War. Dan J. Puckett's comprehensive analysis is enlivened and illustrated by true stories that will fascinate all readers of southern history.

Examines the political career of Alabama's "Big Jim" Folsom

Collects Alan Golding's essays on the futures (past and present) of poetry and poetics. Throughout the 13 essays gathered in this collection, Golding skillfully joins literary critique with a concern for history and a sociological inquiry into the creation of poetry.

Creates a vivid portrait of what life was like for many living in the rural South during the Depression and provides context for their everyday lives. Drawing on her girlhood diaries, Aileen Henderson's nuanced storytelling sheds light on the common struggle for sustenance during a time when people were at their most vulnerable.

Explores how Rabbi Stephen S. Wise entirely changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first century.

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference

Explores the lives of wealthy plantation owners Betty and John Welch who lived on the southwestern edge of the Cherokee Nation. John was Cherokee and Betty was White. Lance Greene's study uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how and why the Welches reestablished their ways of life in the midst of a growing White population.

Presents essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality - forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more.

The life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience.

Interspersed throughout with insights drawn from James Seay Brown's academic career and his work with a variety of Birmingham-area community organizations, this book traces a very personal, historically informed, and idiosyncratic profile of a region in transition in the mid to late twentieth century.

Considers Alexander Hamilton both as a founder of the American republic, steeped in the currents of political philosophy and science of his day, and as its chief administrative theorist and craftsman, deeply involved in establishing the early institutions and policies that would bring his interpretation of the written Constitution to life.

Jeffrey was the resident apparition in the Selma, Alabama, home of nationally-known folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham and the inspiration for 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. In Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts, Windham's disembodied friend roams the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida to recall thirteen more spine-tingling tales.

Recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobilists, and how state and federal highway administrations replaced the Good Roads Movement.

In this comprehensive critical study of the American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and her work, Erickson demonstrates the poet's ability to combine close observation with a worldview presentation that is at once intuitive, kaleidoscopic, and optimistic.

Collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misrepresented writer. The 75 reminiscences gathered here offer a much-needed account of Crane's life from a variety of viewpoints, as well as important information about the contributors themselves.

Draws on archaeological, historical, and ethnohistorical sources to explore the impacts of sixteenth-century Spanish colonization on indigenous peoples in the Greater Antilles. This book shows the complexity of the initial exchange between the Old and New Worlds and examines the ways the indigenous peoples responded to Spanish colonization.

Chronicles the weirdest, ugliest, and most mixed-up characters to appear on the literary scene since World War II - creatures intimately linked to damaged habitats that rise from the muck, not to destroy the world, but to save it. The book asks what happens to these landscapes after the madness and destruction. What monsters and magic surface then?

Presents a collection of essays that reassess history as rhetoric and rhetorical history as practice.

Brings back into print a classic account of courage and calamity in the long march towards racial justice in the South, and the nation.

For as long as Mississippi has existed (and then some), flocks of phantoms have haunted the mortal inhabitants of the Magnolia State. In Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduces thirteen of the state's most famous ghost stories.