Mississippi Books

Frequently forgotten or misjudged, this book provides one of the most hilarious plots ever written. The "common sense" of Huck is always fighting for bring Tom's lunacies to Earth, but the question is, why should we do that? Tom's reveries are the key for happy travel with a sane state of mind, providing the key which erase the nuance between what should be and possibly, what actually is. A delightful book.

This collection of literary criticism is one of the best I've read. The new standard it presents as the basis for criticism is aesthetics. There is no jargon in these essays. I was especially pleased to read literary criticism written by women. Most importantly, these essays illuminated Morrison's writing and gave the authenticity of the book back to the author where I believe it belongs.

This is an essential reading for everyone interested in relationships between African and African-American Music. Kubik is a major scholar in both fields and has a new, fresh and documented approach to the old controversy about how African music influenced the blues. In this book you will find new and exciting answers.
Very important: don't forget to buy the companion Cd. It's an essential support to understand the book. It was planned to be attached to the book, but now is available only as separate purchase. It's available at network.rp@utanet.at

'As the seasons changed, an infinite green morphed in a
thousand colors much like the trials and errors of a people
imposing passed-down shards of Africa memory onto each and
every day'-- John Hatch

Africa Love, the sophomore offering to Hatch's Mississippi
Swamp, is the continuing story of Rose and Cicero Morgan.
Cicero learned politics in the Confederate President's family.
Rose had been interned on the Davis Plantation by General Grant
preceding the battle of Vicksburg. Both Rose and Cicero refused
to become victims of the free enterprise's spin on freedom
following the Civil War. Rose ran away from her owner seeking
refuge in the swamp. Cicero, who had been elected to Mississippi's
post-war government, moved into the swamp to join Rose.

The 'Africanamericans' as they were called entered the swamp during
the war, as an alternative to turning their lives over to someone
else. Hatch offers an array of characters, as he brings to life the
offsprings of Rose, Cicero, and Cicero's sister. He peppers the pages
with some historical giants, Booker T. Washington and Frederick
Douglas. He also introduces many unknown people of color who helped
create a magnanimous history. People like the election workers led
by a Black sheriff named John Brown who pursued a sharecropper's
boycott until insurrection strikes in a little-known piece of
history which resulted in the Friars Point Massacre.

Rose and Cicero renamed the swamp 'Africa', because they still clung
desperately to customs from which they had been taken. And there is
much controversy over the fact that this prime real estate is owned
by the former slaves, and wanted by the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad. The dwellers of the town, now being run by the off-springs,
know that the birth of the railroad would certainly be the demise of
their town.

Africa Love, set in 1886, is an indepth account of life during and
after the Civil War. This story shares some tragic and some
enthralling events surrounding one of the darkest periods of American
history. This book is an excellent cronicle of this particular era,
weaving fiction and history in a profound way, as it amplifies the
plight of people of color. This is must read for history buffs.

Reviewed by aNN Brown
The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

This book Stuck on you is a great book . I didn't read all of it yet but I know the ending will be great. I ordered this book out of a book order from school and right when I got it I read th1st and 2nd chapter in about 15-20 minutes it was awesome! I picked the book out of the book oreder because I got attraced to it and it looked like a very good book to read. I would encourage many people to read Stuck on You because it's a great book and they would have fun reading it.

This is an excellent book for CSA history since it is written by the hands of the men who were actually there and placed in the Confederate Military History. If you want the truth of a subject, go to the source.

This is GREAT! Finally an author comes along with something new to say. (Who could have imagined someone covering topics as diverse as computers, Asperger's and life in the deep South all in one text) Give it a try. You won't be disappointed!

Hatfield has written a very good account of the formal qualities of the comic art form. He deals with the interaction between visual and textual elements in comics at a theoretical level not previously broached. His work shows how these qualities play out in comics creating narratives and meaning for their readers. Having delineated these qualities he then sets about a formal reading of specific works in chapters 3 to 5. In these chapters he addresses both the cultural context of alternative comics and their formal aspects. His central argument is that comics need to be reconsidered in socio-historical and aesthetic terms. While acknowledging comics lowbrow origins he points to the emergence of alternative comics and shows that they offer new ways of understanding fiction and readers' engagement in constructing meaning.

Given that Hatfield is arguing for a greater complexity to the comic art form than is popularly ascribed, and that this requires an interpretative language and theory, his work is direct. Theory of this sort often drifts into abstract language and complex abstractions. Hatfield avoids this pitfall grounding his work in description of comics. Hatfield also addresses broader issues than the simple formal aspects of these comics, or what might in other works be called their literary quality giving a broader context to his work.

Although this was written as a textbook, it is one of the most interesting, best-written history books I've ever read. It is a bit more episodic than comprehensive.

It covers "the West" from the earliest settlements to about 1890, although the term changes as time passes. For instance, after a few pages of early perspective on the English settlements, the settling of Kentucky and Tennessee are treated in some detail.

The authors tend to move geographically rather than by time, so discussions of Spanish exploration fall later in the book, when Americans began to explore the Southwest. The chapters also tend to center on a certain subject matter, so there is a nice discussion of the Plains Indians and another on the fur trade in the middle, just as settlers began to look west of Iowa and Missouri.

An excellent interesting read for anyone who likes history, as it does not attempt to present more material than can be handled within an interesting narrative. Lots of cool illustrations, too.

Baldwin's Flush Times is a great historical resource. Baldwin paints an interesting tale of frontier Alabama and Mississippi and the characters which lived in the region. Overall, a great illustration of the American frontier and the Jacksonian era.