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A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives
Contributor(s): Barnwell, Marion Garrard (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0878059644     ISBN-13: 9780878059645
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 1997
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Annotation: An anthology of readings that reveal the mind and the character of the Magnolia State

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
Dewey: 977
LCCN: 96-29607
Series: Heritage of Mississippi
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 9" L (1.55 lbs) 384 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Deep South
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - South
- Geographic Orientation - Mississippi
- Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts
- Cultural Region - New England
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
Filled with serendipitous connections and contrasts, this volume of Mississippiana covers four hundred years. It begins with a selection from "A Gentleman from Elvas," written in 1541, and ends with an essay the novelist Ellen Douglas wrote in 1996 on the occasion of the Atlanta Olympic games. In between is a chronology of some one hundred nonfictional narratives that portray the distinctiveness of life in Mississippi. Most are reprinted, but some are published here for the first time.

Each section of this anthology reveals an aspect of Mississippi's past or present.

Here are narratives that depict the settlement of the land by pioneers, the lasting heritage of the Civil War, the pleasures and the pastimes of Mississippians, their food, art, rituals, and religion, the terrain and the travelers, and the conflicts that brought enormous changes to both the landscape and the population.

In its wide cultural perspective, A Place Called Mississippi includes an early description of the Chickasaws, a narrative of a former slave, "Soggy" Sweat's famous "Whiskey Speech" on Prohibition, and an account of how W. C. Handy discovered the blues in a deserted train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi.

Among the selections are narratives by Jefferson Davis, Belle Kearney, Walter Anderson, Ida B. Wells, Richard Wright, Craig Claiborne, Richard Ford, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty. Written by and about blacks, whites, Native Americans, and others, these fascinating accounts convey a variety of impressions about a real place and about real people whose colorful history is large, ever-changing, and ever-mystifying.

Contributor Bio(s): Barnwell, Marion: - Marion Barnwell is professor emerita of English at Delta State University.
 
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