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  • Stringbean

    The Life and Murder of a Country Legend

    by Taylor Hagood ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    The artist’s impact on country music and how his death changed the genreA beloved member of the country music community, David “Stringbean” Akeman found nationwide fame as a cast member of Hee Haw. The 1973 murder of Stringbean and his wife forever changed Nashville’s sense of itself. Millions of others mourned not only the slain couple but the passing of the way of life that country music had ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Theodore Pratt

    A Florida Writer's Life

    by Taylor Hagood ...
    Theodore Pratt (1901-1969) was the author of fifteen books that depict the Sunshine State, earning him the informal title of “Literary Laureate of Florida” in the mid-twentieth century. He portrayed the culture of south Florida, especially in his “Florida Trilogy”—which includes his most famous book, The Barefoot Mailman (1943), and continues with The Flame Tree (1948) and The Big Bubble (1949). ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Faulkner's Imperialism

    Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth

    by Taylor Hagood ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In Faulkner's Imperialism, Taylor Hagood explores two staples of Faulkner's world: myth and place. Using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the economic, sociological, and political factors in Faulkner's writing, he applies postcolonial theory, cultural materialism, and the work of the New Southernists to analyze the ways myth and place come together to encode narratives of imperialism -- ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Faulkner, Writer of Disability

    by Taylor Hagood ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    From the emerging field of disability studies, Taylor Hagood offers the first book-length consideration of impairment in William Faulkner's life and writing. Blending biography, textual analysis, and theory in an experimental style, Hagood explores in both form and content the constructs of normality and their power.Hagood brings to light little-known and rarely discussed ways in which Faulkner's ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Small-Screen Souths

    Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television

    by Eric Gary Anderson, Bonnie Applebeet Cameron, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Matthew Dischinger, Ashli Dykes, Leigh H. Edwards, Sara K. Eskridge, Taylor Hagood, Robert W. Haynes, Robert Jackson, Casey Kayser, Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Tatiana McInnis, Monica Carol Miller, Stanley Orr, Jimmy Dean Smith, Mary Ann Wilson, Scott Romine ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    As the first collection dedicated to the relationship between television and the U.S. South, Small-Screen Souths addresses the growing interest in how mass culture represents the region and influences popular perceptions of it. In sixteen essays divided into three thematic sections, scholars of southern culture analyze representations of the South in a variety of television shows spanning the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Undead Souths

    The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture

    by Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, Daniel Cross Turner ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also appears in symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms, including the social death endured by enslaved people, the Cult of the Lost Cause ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Inventing Benjy

    William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap

    by Frédérique Spill ...
    Translated by Arby Gharibian ...
    Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap is a groundbreaking work at the intersection of Faulkner studies and disability studies. Originally published in 2009 by Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle as L’Idiotie dans l’œuvre de Faulkner, this translation brings the book to English-language readers for the first time. Author Frédérique Spill begins with a sustained look at the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Redrawing the Historical Past

    History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels

    by Frederick Luis Aldama, Julie Buckner Armstrong, Katharine Capshaw, Monica Chiu, Jennifer Glaser, Caroline Kyungah Hong, Angela Laflen, Catherine H. Nguyen, Jorge Santos, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Dr. Taylor Hagood ...
    Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Incognegro, Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints, GB Tran’s ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Walking the Line

    Country Music Lyricists and American Culture

    by Pete Falconer, Howard Steve Goodson, Douglas Harrison, Michael MacDonald, Clay Motley, Laura Pattillo, Blase Scarnati, June Skinner Sawyers, James Zborowski, Samantha Christensen, Taylor Hagood ...
    An insightful and wide-ranging look at one of America’s most popular genres of music, Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists and American Culture examines how country songwriters engage with their nation’s religion, literature, and politics. Country fans have long encountered the concept of walking the line, from Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line” to Waylon Jennings’s “Only Daddy That’ll Walk the ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Swamp Souths

    Literary and Cultural Ecologies

    by Scott Romine, Keely Byars-Nichols, William Tynes Cowan, Rain Prud'homme-Cranford, Josh-Wade Ferguson, Hannah Godwin, Peter Jay Ingrao, Joseph Kuhn, Lauren E. LaFauci, John Wharton Lowe, Rebecca Mark, Jessica Martell, Matthew E. Suazo, Matthew Sutton, Susan Thananopavarn, Mitch Therieau, Zackary Vernon ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States—the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp—this evocative collection challenges fixed notions of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

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  • Paris Is Burning

    A Queer Film Classic

    by Lucas Hilderbrand ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1991) captures the energy, ambition, wit, and struggle of African-American and Latino participants in the 1980s New York drag ball scene. This book contextualizes the film within the longer history of drag balls, the practices of documentary, the fervor of the culture wars, and the development of queer theory and critical race studies. ... Read more

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