A thorough explication and revelation of the literary power in blues-fueled songwriting

A biography of a trailblazer for abolition, gender equality, and social justice

A brilliant tour of the bookshelf and galleries that inspired one of the most literate, sophisticated, and wildly funny graphic masters of our time

The first collection of critical essays to explore the Georgia writer’s vast work and activism

The first in-depth study of one of Marvel’s most successful and culturally impactful films

Expressive reminders of the power and spiritual pull of the natural world

How the hardscrabble borderland frontier of the Ozarks nurtured zones of creativity, community, and cults

A study of nineteenth-century young adult literature that refocuses the history of girls’ books and female adolescence in the United States and Germany

Collected for the first time, an exploration of the artwork and commentary of a forgotten activist during the civil rights movement

How eleven institutions remained open and maintained the mission of higher education during a national cataclysm

270 musical examples plus biographies and photographs completing a vibrant picture of Mississippi’s fiddle tradition

Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, author, and actor known for creating the Family Trilogy of plays and appearing in many films like The Right Stuff, Fool for Love, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

A unique historical examination of Haitian Vodou’s political and religious origins

A beautifully written memoir of a Mississippi woman learning to reconnect with her aging mother

An emotional recounting of animal rescue during the aftermath of one of the nation’s worst storms

An exciting and surprising history of the New Orleans home front during World War I

A deep exploration of children’s play and its impact on learning race, history, and sexuality

How two Mississippi universities won twelve of twenty-four championships to dominate sports and reign supreme in the SEC

A close analysis of southern women playwrights

How a Philippine military band and their Black conductor dazzled America while soothing its racial anxieties

Never before in English, a travel-adventure novel of two young women navigating antebellum Louisiana

A thoroughly researched collection designed to engage with the social sciences in order to expand comics studies as a field

Available in English for the first time, the integral and only book on all the music of a most diverse nation

Collected interviews with the comics fan-turned-creator best known for The Walking Dead andInvincible

A master scholar’s thorough study of the neglected but vital age in which the term “cartoon” was coined

The first comprehensive study of how Boxing Day is celebrated across the Caribbean

A lively and detailed exploration of the history of the blues from the 1940s to the 1990s in the City That Never Sleeps

A firsthand account of the secretive Egúngún society from a scholar who would become a priest in the religion

Collected interviews with an influential educator, scholar, and activist, who is one of the most recognizable and iconic figures of the twentieth century

A collection of twenty-one interviews with the French filmmaker of award-winning documentaries like Van Gogh and Night and Fog and groundbreaking dramas like Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad, and Muriel

The first ecocritical treatment of the entire range of the Nobel Laureate’s mighty works

The extraordinary struggle, achievement, loss and reclamation of three brilliant African American artists of the 1800s

A delightful journey into the heart of the many meanings behind that silly old bear

A thorough exploration of the political critiques found in a multigenre, historical cross-section of comic books and their transmedia adaptations

A thorough exploration of early pop ballads in the American Songbook and how they still resonate

A collection of twenty-four interviews with a singular writer whose work is a dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp, and paranoid late-century postmodernism

A theory of how authors position readers in relation to literary character through empathy, awe, and indifference

The first complete history of Mississippi’s seafood industry and those who harvested and processed this coastal bounty

A trailblazing book on the depiction of the Haitian Revolution in film and video games

A probing of the earliest Black efforts to overcome disfranchisement popular politics in the Jim Crow South

A multidisciplined exploration of the importance and evolution of liberal arts

A first-of-its-kind history of Ted Geisel and the beloved children’s book series he created

A long-awaited assessment of the Nobel laureate’s work in relation to America’s cosmic sin

A sounding of a vibrant multiracial identity often unknown outside the Caribbean

How New Orleans became a Confederate city after the war, and how citizens tore those symbols down

A tale of three African American teenagers who conquered the music world

A celebration of those independent people who call the fringes of the mighty Mississippi home

A scholarly exploration of the iconic comics artist

A timely exploration of the role white women play in supporting systems of racism

A wrestling with the faults and possibilities of the portrayals of race in this powerful genre