{"product_id":"a-place-called-mississippi-collected-narratives-paperback","title":"A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarion Garrard Barnwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilled 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach section of this anthology reveals an aspect of Mississippi's past or present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn its wide cultural perspective, \u003ci\u003eA Place Called Mississippi \u003c\/i\u003eincludes 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarion Barnwell \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emerita of English at Delta State University. She is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eTouring Literary Mississippi \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFannye Cook: Mississippi's Pioneering Conservationist\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by University Press of Mississippi. Her fiction has been published in the edited collections \u003ci\u003eMad Dogs and Moonshine\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eChristmas Stories from Mississippi; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOn the Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e; and her essays have appeared in magazines such as \u003ci\u003eDelta Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePortico\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a board member and past president of Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Jackson Friends of the Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47449889538226,"sku":"9780878059645","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/138ca7991aba3362bfc51c52b2a3dbfe.webp?v=1778775109","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/a-place-called-mississippi-collected-narratives-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}