Spring & Summer 2013
CONTENTS BY SUBJECT
From Controversy and Hope: Civil Rights Photographs of James Karales
Above:
—Birmingham Police Escorting Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., for Questioning, Birmingham, 1962
Below:
—James Karales (right) covering the Selma to Montgomery March for
Voting Rights, 1965
African American History 13
American Revolution 17
Art 18–19
Back in Print 25
Biography 13
Civil Rights 1, 16
Civil War 15
Conservation 10
Communication 22–23
Cooking 8
Ebooks 26–27
Gardening 8
Historical Fiction 9
Literary Studies 5, 20–21
Memoir 16
Music 12
Nature 10–11
Performing Arts 13
Photography 1
Poetry 5
Public Health 22–23
Religious Studies 21
Rhetoric 23
South Carolina 2–3, 11–12, 14, 16, 18
Southern Fiction 6–7
Southern History 17
Southern Literature 2–4
William Gilmore Simms 24
Women’s Studies 22
Young Adult 8, 9
Order Form 28
Sales Information Inside Back Cover
On the cover:
—Coretta Scott King and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Freedom Singing, SCLC
Convention, Birmingham, 1962
—Marchers Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, 1965
Below:
—Selma to Montgomery March, 1965
All photographs courtesy of the
Estate of James Karales
Controversy and Hope
Photography | Civil Rights
Julian Cox
May
9 x 10, 176 pages, 121 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-157-0
hardcover, $39.95s
ISBN 978-1-61117-158-7
paperback, $24.95t
The Civil Rights Photographs
of James Karales
With Rebekah Jacob and Monica Karales
Foreword by Andrew Young
The dynamic photography and story of an unsung
civil rights documentarian
C
ontroversy and Hope commemorates the civil
rights legacy of James Karales (1930–2002), a
professional photojournalist who documented the
1965 Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights
with a dedication and vision that led the New York
Times to deem his work “a pictorial anthem of the
civil rights movement.”
Equipped with ambition and a B.F.A. in photography from Ohio University in 1955, Karales headed
to New York and found work as a darkroom assistant
to master photographer W. Eugene Smith. Karales’s
earliest photo-essays had already come to the
attention of Edward Steichen, curator of photography
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which
acquired two of Karales’s photographs from his series
on the Greek American community of Canton, Ohio.
Another early photo-essay, on the integrated mining
community of Rendville, Ohio, was featured in
Karales’s first solo exhibition, held in 1958 at Helen
Gee’s Limelight Gallery in Greenwich Village. From
1960 to 1971, Karales worked as a staff photographer
for Look magazine, traveling the world during a time
of dynamic social change and recording the harsh
realities he witnessed at home and abroad.
By the time Karales documented the fifty-fourmile voting-rights march from Selma to Montgomery,
Alabama, in 1965, he had already developed a strong
relationship with its most prominent leader, Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., and had been granted unprecedented access to the King family. That connection
translated into a powerful empathy in the photographs
that still resonates for viewers today.
The Village Voice described Karales’s civil rights
work as bearing “the weight of history and the
grace of art.” Controversy and Hope presents many
of Karales’s images from the era, including some
photographs published here for the first time. Julian
Cox, with the assistance of Rebekah Jacob and
Monica Karales, has selected a bold representation of
Karales’s photographs, augmenting his visual legacy
with biographical information and personal recollections. Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who appears
in some of Karales’s photographs, has provided a
foreword to the volume.
Julian Cox is the founding curator of photography
and chief curator for the Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco. For more than a decade Cox worked
with the photographs collection at the J. Paul Getty
Museum in Los Angeles and then spent five years
leading the photography program at Atlanta’s High
Museum of Art. His previous books include Julia
Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs; Harry
Callahan: Eleanor; Road to Freedom: Photographs
of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968; and The
Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten.
Rebekah Jacob is the proprietor of the Rebekah
Jacob Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina. She
is an expert on the art and photography of the
American South and represents a number of eminent
Southern artists. Jacob holds undergraduate and
graduate degrees from the University of Mississippi
and a certificate in appraisal studies in fine and
decorative arts from New York University. She is also
a certified member of the Appraisers Association of
America.
Monica Karales is the widow of James Karales. She
was born in Switzerland and raised in LenzerheideValbella, in a picturesque valley in the Swiss Alps.
Trained in the visual arts, she met and married James
Karales in 1973 and was his constant companion
until she was widowed in 2002. Karales has since
dedicated herself to preserving her late husband’s
archive and ensuring that his legacy survives in the
form of exhibitions and scholarly publications.
The University of South Carolina Press
“I don’t know why James
Karales had the sensitivity to
capture the power and the
humanity of our movement.
Perhaps it was a sensibility
derived from his life as the
child of immigrants. Perhaps it
was his immersion in the integrated coal-mining community
of Rendville, Ohio. Somehow
he was not blinded by the
color consciousness that was
the hallmark of the segregated
way of life we were challenging. Through the lens of his
camera, Karales recorded the
humanity of a people struggling to be free and conveyed
that reality to the nation.”
—Andrew Young, from the
foreword
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South Carolina |
Southern Literature
May
6 x 9, 224 pages, 50 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-250-8
hardcover, $39.95s
ISBN 978-1-61117-251-5
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eISBN 978-1-61117-252-2
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A University of South Carolina
Press Friends Fund Book
“State of the Heart reminds
us of what is best about
South Carolina and her many
gifted writers, the monumental
power of this place to shape
our memories into stories and
then our stories into art.”
—Pat Conroy, from the foreword
State of the Heart
South Carolina Writers on the
Places They Love
Edited by Aïda Rogers
Foreword by Pat Conroy
A collection of heartfelt recollections of place from a
pantheon of Palmetto State writers
I
n State of the Heart, Aïda Rogers has crafted an artful
love letter to our state, with contributions from a host
of nationally and regionally recognized writers who have
written short essays on the South Carolina places that they
cherish. This anthology provides a multifaceted historical
and personal view of the Palmetto State.
Thematically organized, this collection offers a
geographic and emotional scope that is as diverse as its
contributors. Sportswriters describe beloved arenas; historians reflect on church ruins and forts. A playwright recalls
the magic of her first theater experience; a food writer
revels in a coastal joint that serves fresh oysters. Backyards,
front porches, a small library at a children’s home, the
Savannah River Site, and places that are gone except in the
memories of the writers who loved them—these are just a
few of the locales covered, all showing how South Carolina
has changed and inspired people in a variety of ways.
State of the Heart evokes a sense of history and
timelessness by bringing together heartfelt responses to
South Carolina rooted in memory, drawing on reflection,
inspiration, and love. The anthology reveals a state that is
more than a playground for tourists; it is a state of human
hiding places that echo in the hearts of its literary citizens.
Though presented as a book about place, the collection is
ultimately about our shared connections to one another, to
a complex common past, and to ongoing efforts to frame
and build a future of promise and possibility.
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CONTRIBUTORS
William P. Baldwin
Kendall Bell
Cynthia Boiter
Shane Bradley
Lee Gordon Brockington
Ken Burger
Amanda Capps
John Cely
Pat Conroy
Robin Asbury Cutler
Billy Deal
Clair DeLune
Nathalie Dupree
Mary Eaddy
Starkey Flythe
Daniel Elton Harmon
Stephen G. Hoffius
Cecile S. Holmes
Dot Jackson
Dianne Johnson
Sandra Johnson
John Lane
J. Drew Lanham
Nick Lindsay
Vennie Deas Moore
John Hammond Moore
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Aïda Rogers is a writer and editor whose
feature journalism has won national and
regional awards. She has worked in newpapers,
television, and magazines and has coauthored
Stop Where the Parking Lot’s Full, a guidebook to
South Carolina’s favorite restaurants with Tim
Driggers. She lives in Columbia.
The University of South Carolina Press
Sam Morton
Horace Mungin
Kirk H. Neely
Liz Newall
Tom Poland
Aïda Rogers
Dori Sanders
W. Thomas Smith Jr.
Deno Trakas
Ceille Baird Welch
Marjory Wentworth
South Carolina |
Southern Literature
Excerpts from State of the Heart
“Before the days when I didn’t care who owned a
restaurant, I just wanted to eat what I wanted to eat,
and that was fresh oysters, cooked just like I knew
from that beach and other outside oyster roasts. But
inside. Walking into Bowens Island restaurant in those
days—the 1970s, I suppose—was like traveling back
to my youth. The order was taken by an old man (John
Sanka was his name) sitting behind a long Coca-Cola
drink box, money paid on the spot. There was another
cooler with ice and cold drinks and spigots adorning
rough containers of sweet tea and water. If ordering
something fried—shrimp or fish, for instance, or hush
puppies—it was possible to glimpse the order sliding
into the fat in the iron skillet, watch the fat bubble
up and hear the sizzle. Noses wrinkled and mouths
tingled, anticipating the brown crusty exterior of the
hushpuppies and their tender moist interiors. The
aroma of the fresh shrimp—cooked every whichaway—would sway many an oyster lover into ordering
both.”— Nathalie Dupree, from Please Tip the
Oysterman
Lanham family farm smokehouse. Photograph by J. Drew Lanham
Henry Gaillard shoveling succulents in the Oyster Room in 2006, before the fire.
Photograph by Cramer Gallimore
“There is something about an old farm that wants to
be broken down. As time tests tin and weather wears
wood, barns and outbuildings begin to lean and falter. Like old men teetering on canes, they rest feebly
on stone foundations that hold them up despite the
failure of everything else around them. They wobble
in the wind, barely balanced on posts and pillars that
keep them from falling flat on their facades. Their
impending demise is hastened by loosening joints—
mortise separating from tenon and nails falling out
like rotting teeth. And yet, some old barns and sheds
linger on. They were constructed not so much with
neatly drawn plans to spec and scale, but rather with
what was on hand. Aesthetic was never in the plan.
Form was function. Were it not for something stronger
than what we see, they would fail. The underpinning
of stones, bricks, blocks, and mortar are the souls of
the silos and sheds, and they stand for something
durable—no matter the decaying timber they support.”— J. Drew Lanham from No Forever for Old
Farms
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Southern Literature
Southern Bound
A Gulf Coast Journalist on Books, Writers,
and Literary Pilgrimages of the Heart
April
6 x 9, 280 pages, 10 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-137-2
paperback, $24.95t
eISBN 978-1-61117-236-2
ebook, $24.95t
John S. Sledge
Foreword by Walter Edgar
A collection of extraordinary columns on all things
literary from an accomplished Southern critic, historian,
and preservationist
S
outhern Bound represents a running conversation on
books, writers, and literary travel written by John S.
Sledge for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995
to 2011. The collection includes more than one hundred
of the best pieces culled from Sledge’s total output of
approximately seven hundred columns. Numerous classic
authors are celebrated in these pages, including Homer,
Plato, Gibbon, Melville, Proust, Conrad, Cather, and
Steinbeck as well as modern writers such as Walter Edgar,
Tom Franklin, and Eugene Walter.
While some of the essays are relatively straightforward
book reviews, others present meditative and deeply
personal perspectives on the author’s literary experiences
such as serving on the jury in the play version To Kill a
Mockingbird; spending the night alone in a Jesuit college
library’s venerable stacks; rambling through funky New
Orleans bookshops; talking to Square Books owner Richard Howarth while overlooking the Oxford, Mississippi,
courthouse; rereading Treasure Island on the shores of
Mobile Bay; and remembering a beloved father’s favorite
books. Engaging and spirited, Southern Bound represents
the critical art at its most accessible and will prove entertaining fare for anyone who loves the written word.
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“John Sledge loves books, and in Southern Bound
that feeling rolls along page after page, reminding
us why we love them, too. He takes us through …
good books and great books in great writing of his
own, from Charles Portis in the great True Grit to the
writer across Mobile Bay. But, more than that, we
see the great value in Sledge and writers like him …
who take on the closed minds and the book burners.
I cannot imagine a world without books or without people like John Sledge who help me find and
appreciate the best of them, and in them.”—Rick
Bragg
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John S. Sledge, senior architectural historian for
the Mobile Historic Development Commission,
was the books editor for the Mobile Press-Register from 1996 to 2012 and is a member of the
National Book Critics Circle. He holds a B.A.
in history and Spanish from Auburn University
and a master’s in historic preservation from
Middle Tennessee State University. Sledge is
the author of three books with photography
by Sheila Hagler, Cities of Silence: A Guide to
Mobile’s Historic Cemeteries, An Ornament to the
City: Old Mobile Ironwork, and The Pillared City:
Greek Revival Mobile. He and his wife, Lynn, live
in Fairhope, Alabama.
“John Sledge’s wonderful collection of
essays is a literary labor of love by a man
who loves and understands literature. A
treasure to buy and a pleasure to keep for
many years to come.”—Winston Groom
“Southern Bound is a reader’s and writer’s
delight. John Sledge’s collection is a marvel
of shrewd book commentary not to be
missed. Spanning subjects from Mobile
favorites to internationally recognized hotshots, Sledge is incredibly generous, always
explaining how a book or author affected
him. Because of this singular tone, the
whole book has a feeling of freedom and
exploration about it. Read!” —Helen Scully
The Complete Poems
of James Dickey
Poetry | Literary Studies
Edited with an Introduction by Ward Briggs
Foreword by Richard Howard
April
7 x 10, 960 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-097-9
hardcover, $85.00s
The definitive collection of works by a quintessential
twentieth-century American poet
T
he Complete Poems of James Dickey is an authoritative edition of all 331 poems published by one of
America’s most distinguished poets, collected in one
volume for the first time. Dickey’s most-admired and
most-anthologized poems—such as “The Performance,”
“Cherrylog Road,” “The Firebombing,” “Falling,” and “May
Day Sermon”—along with his epic poem The Zodiac are
placed in chronological order of publication, affording a
poetic autobiography that reveals the intellectual development and the constant experimentation of an iconic
American literary figure.
This collection includes 93 poems Dickey did not
publish in The Whole Motion (1992), 238 poems that he
collected as an overview of his whole career. The Complete
Poems of James Dickey also includes an apparatus listing
publication data and textual variants for the poems, as well
as explanatory notes placing Dickey’s poetry in biographical and historical context. Edited with an introduction by
Ward Briggs, this authoritative and complete edition will
be the definitive primary source for Dickey’s poetry.
This collection includes a foreword by poet Richard
Howard, president of the PEN American Center and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his 1969 collection, Untitled
Subjects.
James Dickey (1923–1997) is one of the great American
poets of the twentieth century. After working in the
advertising industry and teaching at several colleges and
universities, Dickey received a National Book Award
for Buckdancer’s Choice in 1966 and served as poetry
2009, hc, 978-1-57003-803-7, $44.95s
consultant to the Library of Congress, a position
that later became poet laureate, from 1966 to
1968. He then joined the University of South
Carolina English faculty and served as poet in
residence until his death. He became a member
of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in
1972 and was elected to the American Academy
of Arts and Letters in 1987.
Ward Briggs is Carolina Distinguished
Professor of Classics Emeritus and Louis Fry
Scudder Professor of Humanities Emeritus
at the University of South Carolina. He has
published widely on the history of American
classical scholarship, the career of the classicist
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, and the classical
tradition. He was a friend of James Dickey for
more than thirty years.
2003, hc, 978-1-57003-528-9, $39.95s
“James Dickey was like a force
of nature—in personality,
ambition, and often enough,
in achievement. Sometimes
the man, in his drive for fame,
seemed to get in the way of
the poet. Dickey’s Complete
Poems not only places the best
of his great poetry in perspective, it honors the whole of
his poetry as an original and
demanding work of art. The
fifty years of poems represented here demonstrate more
than simply a commitment to
form and change and growth,
they stand as a testament to
experiment and discovery. No
poet in our history has written
with more power per line,
more pulse, and more heat of
the moment. From the first
poem to the last—a marvelous
elegy for F. Scott Fitzgerald—
the writing is beautifully alive.
Dickey pushed the limits. In his
great poems he enlarged what
American poetry is.”—Stanley
Plumly
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Southern Fiction
Her Own Place
A Novel
Dori Sanders
April
5 x 7, 256 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-244-7
paperback, $18.95t
Southern Revivals
Robert Brinkmeyer, series editor
New Introduction by the Author
A new edition of Sanders’s novel of perseverance, family,
and hope in the hardscrabble South
H
er Own Place traces the life and times of Mae Lee
Barnes, an African American woman from rural
South Carolina. The novel begins with Mae Lee’s life as a
teenager in the 1940s and follows her eventual marriage to
her boyfriend, Jeff Barnes, who proposes before going off
to fight in World War II. While Jeff is in the army, Mae Lee
works rotating shifts at a local munitions plant and saves
every penny she can to purchase a small farm. When Jeff
returns from the war, he alternates between spending time
on the farm and going to find work in the city, and eventually they decide to start a new life in the city together. The
day their new life is to begin, Jeff abandons Mae Lee and
their five children, and the story traces Mae Lee’s struggles
and triumphs after Jeff leaves, including her challenges as a
single parent on a working farm, her life after her children
are grown, the realities of racial integration in the South,
and the realization that her memory is slipping away.
This Southern Revivals edition includes a new introduction from the author.
“Moves at the gentle, timeless pace of a work by
Willa Cather. . . . Her Own Place is about Mae Lee
Barnes, who matures from a rural South Carolina
teenager, all buckled knees for her high school
sweetheart, to an abandoned mother of five whose
fierce reserves and constant humor help her family
to prosper.”—New York Times
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“This story belongs to Mae Lee Barnes—and reflects
a life punctuated by births, graduations, weddings
and deaths that shape our memories. . . . But this
is more than the success story of one indomitable
black matriarch. Sanders sets her novel during times
of changes, inviting us to speculate on the broader
implications of the social realignment brought upon
by the civil rights movement. . . . A voice that should
appeal to anyone.”—Washington Post
“A life story that seems to hum along so simply it
takes a while to notice that it resonates as powerfully as an old hymn. . . . Small, sharp truths and dayto-day details add up to a story that’s larger than
life here—that’s the cipher of fine writing.”—Kirkus
Reviews
1989, pb, 978-0-87249-634-7, $16.95t
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Dori Sanders grew up near York, South
Carolina, where she still lives. Sanders is also
the author of the novel Clover—winner of the
Lillian Smith Award— and a cookbook, Dori
Sanders’ Country Cooking. She lives on her family’s land, one of the oldest black-owned farms
in the country, and divides her time between
public speaking appearances and managing the
Sanders’ Peach Shed.
“A salute to the extraordinary in ordinary
lives and a delightful reading experience.”
—Library Journal
“Beautiful and beautifully crafted, Sanders brings her story up to the present,
along the way enabling readers to savor
the changes in Mae Lee and the Southern
world around her. That she endures so successfully is part of the triumph of Sanders’
book with its finely proclaimed victory over
the adversity that all readers will know and
identify with.”—Columbia (S.C.) State
“Sanders is a master storyteller, and she
spins this yarn both seamlessly and effortlessly. . . . With homey, but shimmering,
imaginative metaphors, she portrays the
small truths and little miracles of everyday life. . . . Mae Lee Barnes, a woman of
indomitable spirit, will capture the reader’s
heart and touch the soul.”—Charleston
(S.C.) Post & Courier
Why Dogs Chase Cars
Southern Fiction
George Singleton
April
5 x 7, 352 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-245-4
paperback, $18.95t
Southern Revivals
Robert Brinkmeyer, series editor
Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood,
Expanded Edition
New Introduction by the Author
A new edition of Singleton’s comic tales of coming-of-age in
the small-town South
A
ccomplished South Carolina storyteller George
Singleton has been called “the unchallenged
king of the comic southern short story” by the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, “a breakthrough writer you need to
know” by Book magazine, and “a big-hearted evil genius
who writes as if he were the love child of Alice Munro
and Strom Thurman” by novelist Tony Earley. Singleton’s
third collection, Why Dogs Chase Cars, comprises fourteen
uproarious short stories about Mendal Dawes, a young
boy coming of age in the backwoods town of Forty-Five,
South Carolina, and coming to terms with his eccentric
but well-intentioned father. Singleton uses an earnest and
consistently comic voice as he skillfully navigates themes
of race, class, family, and Southern heritage. In his vision of
the small-town South, where the “gene pool [is] so shallow
that it wouldn’t take a Dr. Scholl’s insert to keep one’s sole
dry,” cynicism ultimately gives way to empathy and an
understanding of the empowering ties that always bind
one to home and family.
This Southern Revivals edition includes a new introduction by Singleton himself, as well as a previously unpublished story, “Poetry,” and an expanded ending to “The
Earth Rotates This Way,” the final piece in the collection.
“Like a gentler Harry Crews, Singleton explores the
backwaters of Southern life in this offbeat, episodic
collection.”—Publishers Weekly
George Singleton is the author of two novels—
Novel and Work Shirts for Madmen— four short
story collections—These People Are Us, The
Half-Mammals of Dixie, Drowning in Gruel, and
Stray Decorum—and a nonfiction guide for writers. Singleton is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow and
a 2011 winner of the Hillsdale Award for Fiction
from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He
currently teaches writing at the South Carolina
Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. His fiction has appeared in a wide range
of magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly,
Harper’s, Playboy, Esquire, Zoetrope, the Georgia
Review, the Southern Review, and many others.
“In between swipes at homogeneity and herd
mentality, Singleton creates a dead-on portrait of
the way we carry our childhoods into adulthood and
how, despite vows to leave small towns, we can end
up back home, still running, like stray dogs hoping a
passing car will stop and give us a ride somewhere
else.”—Booklist
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“A disturbingly askew—at times, downright surreal—vision of the South.”—Entertainment Weekly
“This is a South that knows something of suburbia,
and while the characters may not be in the best
circumstances, this is a great new take on the harddrinking, hardscrabble Southerner.”—Raleigh (N.C.)
News and Observer
2012, hc, 978-1-61117-082-5, $59.95s
pb, 978-1-61117-083-2, $24.95t
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Young Adult | Gardening |
Cooking
Greek Revival from
the Garden
Growing and Cooking for Life
May
8 x 10, 160 pages, 155 color illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-190-7
hardcover, $27.95t
eISBN 978-1-61117-191-4
ebook, $27.95t
Young Palmetto Books
Kim Jeffcoat, series editor
Published in collaboration with
the South Carolina Center for
Children’s Books and Literacy
“Food can be a gift when it
is scrumptious and delights
our senses, and at the same
time supports good health.
This book offers us many such
gifts.”—Kelly D. Brownell,
director, Rudd Center for Food
Policy and Obesity,
Yale University
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Patricia Moore-Pastides
An inviting garden-to-table approach to the Mediterranean diet for beginning gardeners and chefs
P
atricia Moore-Pastides, author of Greek Revivial:
Cooking for Life, heads to the garden in this
new cookbook that makes a do-it-yourself healthful lifestyle possible, offering guidance on how to
pursue healthy eating, starting from the ground
up. Moore-Pastides, an accomplished cook and
public-health professional, presents all new recipes
focused on bringing the bounty of the garden to the
table in easy and accessible ways. Targeting young
adults but valuable for all novices, Greek Revival from
the Garden focuses on the time-tested Mediterranean
diet—recommended for great taste, good health, and
long life—and on learning simple, delicious cooking
methods that foster a happy and healthy relationship
with good food.
The growing section provides all the information
necessary for those interested in organic gardening
to cultivate an exciting array of fruits and vegetables
in containers, raised beds, or yard gardens. Topics
include preparing the soil, composting to create
organic fertilizer, watering, working with basic tools,
and dealing with common pests and problems. Color
photographs are provided to inspire new gardeners
with more than just tomatoes and cucumbers.
Greek Revival from the Garden then invites the
reader into the kitchen. This section assumes little
prior cooking knowledge or experience and includes
kitchen safety, common equipment and cooking
methods, and observations from cooking class
participants. The highlight of the cooking section are
the recipes themselves: a beautifully photographed
sampling of fifty mouth-watering dishes prepared
with the harvest of homegrown vegetables as the
stars, including garden gazpacho, curried butternut
squash and apple soup, and nut crusted creamy
almond fruit tart.
Throughout the book, Moore-Pastides inspires
healthy habits by introducing simple ways to grow
and prepare nutritious dishes, and promotes a long
and fulfilling lifetime relationship with food from
garden to table.
Classic Caprese Salad
The University of South Carolina Press
Patricia Moore-Pastides is the First Lady of the
University of South Carolina, where she teaches
healthy Mediterranean cooking classes for USC
students. In addition Moore-Pastides teaches adults
and children through Columbia’s Cooking!, a community program offered by the university’s Cancer
Prevention and Control Program. As part of being
an active participant in Healthy Carolina’s farmers’
market, she cultivates an organic vegetable garden
at the President’s House. Moore-Pastides also works
to support sustainability initiatives on campus and
lectures on wellness, specifically the health benefits of
the traditional Mediterranean diet and lifestyle. She is
the author of Greek Revival: Cooking for Life.
Fragments of the Ark
Historical Fiction |
Young Adult
A Novel
Louise Meriwether
March
6 x 9, 360 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-282-9
paperback, $21.95t
eISBN 978-1-61117-283-6
ebook, $21.95t
Young Palmetto Books
Kim Jeffcoat, series editor
Explores the American Civil War through the eyes of its
most deeply wounded souls
F
ragments of the Ark follows the exploits of runaway
slave Peter Mango, his family, and a band of fellow
escaped slaves as they commandeer a Confederate
gunboat out of Charleston harbor and deliver it to the
Union navy. Mango is made captain of this liberated vessel
and commands its crew through the duration of the war.
He also travels to Washington to meet President Lincoln,
adding his voice to others trying to persuade the president
to allow black men to enlist in the armed forces. After the
war Mango bought a home from his former master and
became a political organizer for voting rights. Eventually
he was elected a delegate to South Carolina’s state convention to rewrite its constitution.
Based on the inspirational life of Robert Smalls, Fragments of the Ark explores the American Civil War through
the eyes of its most deeply wounded souls. Against this
chaotic backdrop, the novel sweeps readers into Mango’s
heroic quest for the most basic of human rights—a safe
haven to nurture a family bound by love and not fear, and
the freedom to be the master of his own life.
“Incredibly moving. . . . Fragments of the Ark explains why the Civil War remains positioned in the
American psyche as bitter race memory. In Louise
Meriwether’s capable writing hands, the conflict
becomes as real as the odor of freshly spilled blood,
and the suffocating presence of gunpowder in the
air.”—Maya Angelou
“A marvelous Civil War story told from an African
American point of view. . . . Based on the life of Robert Smalls, this novel portrays one man’s struggle,
the emotional impact of slavery, and the determination to be free at all costs. Packed with historical
facts, it shows how economic, social, and political
forces affected the characters’ lives. . . . A fascinating
read.”—School Library Journal
“Books like this enrich our lives by expanding our
pantheon of heroes.”—Library Journal
Louise Meriwether is a novelist, essayist,
journalist, and social activist with family ties
to South Carolina. Her first book, Daddy Was
a Number Runner, a fictional account of the
economic devastation of Harlem during the
Great Depression, was the first novel to emerge
from the Watts Writers’ Workshop. Meriwether
followed with the publication of three historical
biographies for children on Civil War hero
Robert Smalls, pioneer heart surgeon Dr.
Daniel Hale Williams, and civil rights activist
Rosa Parks. Her most recent novel is Shadow
Dancing. A member of the Harlem Writers
Guild, Meriwether has taught creative writing at
Sarah Lawrence College and the University of
Houston.
“Impressively researched. . . . Meriwether’s
portraits of a wide range of black Americans and their struggles to free themselves
are a welcome window into a crucial part
of America’s past.”—Kirkus Reviews
ALSO AVAILABLE
2007, hc, 978-1-57003-686-6, $19.95t
“Here is a gripping, unbearably sad, yet
irresistible and enriching work of historical
fiction.”—Booklist
“First and foremost, Fragments is a powerful testimony to the spirit of a people who
would not be denied their freedom.”—San
Francisco Chronicle
2008, pb, 978-1-57003-759-7, $21.95s
The University of South Carolina Press
www.sc.edu/uscpress
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Nature | Conservation
Painting the
Landscape with Fire
Longleaf Pines and Fire Ecology
July
6 x 9, 224 pages, 17 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-242-3
hardcover, $29.95t
eISBN 978-1-61117-247-8
ebook, $29.95t
Red-cockaded woodpeckers are
a keystone species in the longleaf
ecosystem. Photograph courtesy of
William Alexander
ALSO AVAILABLE
Den Latham
A revealing look at the role of prescribed burns in sustaining the longleaf pine forests of the Southeast
F
ire can be a destructive, deadly element of
nature, capable of obliterating forests, destroying homes, and taking lives. Den Latham’s Painting
the Landscape with Fire describes this phenomenon
but also tells a different story, one that reveals the
role of fire ecology in healthy, dynamic forests.
Fire is a beneficial element that allows the longleaf
forests of America’s Southeast to survive.
In recent decades foresters and landowners have
become intensely aware of the need to “put enough
fire on the ground” to preserve longleaf habitat for
red-cockaded woodpeckers, quail, wild turkeys,
and a host of other plants and animals. Painting the
Landscape with Fire is a hands-on primer for understanding the role of fire in longleaf forests. Latham
joins wildlife biologists, foresters, wildfire fighters,
and others as they band and translocate endangered
birds, survey snake populations, improve wildlife
habitat, and conduct prescribed burns on public and
private lands.
Painting the Landscape with Fire explores the
unique Southern biosphere of longleaf forests.
Throughout Latham beautifully tells the story of the
resilience of these woodlands and of the resourcefulness of those who work to see them thrive. Fire is
destructive in the case of accidents, arson, or poor
policy, but with the right precautions and safety
measures, it is the glowing life force that these
forests need.
Den Latham is a nature writer. His articles have
appeared in South Carolina Wildlife, Pee Dee
Magazine, Sandlapper Magazine, and the Aroostook
Review. He is an extensive traveler and is a two-time
member of the U.S. East Surf Kayak Team. He has
two sons, Adam and Aaron, and lives with his wife,
Allison, near Clemson, South Carolina.
800-768-2500
A Delicate Balance
Constructing a Conservation Culture in
the South Carolina Lowcountry
Angela C. Halfacre
Foreword by Cynthia Barnett
An interdisciplinary study of conservation efforts and
attitudes in the lowcountry
T
he coastal zone of South Carolina is one of the
most endangered, culturally complex regions
in the state and perhaps in all of the American South.
A Delicate Balance examines how a multilayered
culture of environmental conservation and sustainable development has emerged in the lowcountry of
South Carolina, and in its pages Angela C. Halfacre
describes how sprawl shock, natural disaster, climate
change, and other factors spawned and sustain—but
at times also threaten and hinder—the culture of
conservation.
Since Hurricane Hugo in 1989, the coastal region
of South Carolina has experienced unprecedented
residential, commercial, and industrial growth. As
Halfacre demonstrates, preserving the environment while accommodating growth is a balancing
act replete with compromises. She documents
the origins, goals, programs, leaders, tactics, and
effectiveness of a resilient culture of conservation
that wields growing influence in the lowcountry
that has become an important regional model for
conservation efforts across the nation. A Delicate
Balance also includes a foreword by environmental
journalist Cynthia Barnett.
Angela C. Halfacre is a professor of political science
and sustainability science at Furman University
in Greenville, South Carolina. She also serves as
the director of Furman’s David E. Shi Center for
Sustainability.
“The book provides an exhaustive record of the
singular lowcountry conservation movement,
an invaluable primer on how the movement
has managed contemporary conflicts between
development and conservation.”—Charleston
(S.C.) Post and Courier
“A Delicate Balance thoroughly documents
the rise of the conservation movement in the
lowcountry, leaving the reader with a sense
of having read a well-told story and a reliable
chronicle of the chain of events that significantly altered land-use patterns along the
coast.”—Charleston (S.C.) Mercury
2009, hc, 978-1-57003-728-3, $32.50t
pb, 978-1-57003-881-5, $21.95t
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New in paperback
The University of South Carolina Press
South Carolina |
Conservation
Cowasee Basin
Outdoors | South Carolina
The Green Heart of South Carolina
John Cely
Preface by Billy Cate
Foreword by Walter Edgar
April
6 x 9, 368 pages, 44 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-278-2
paperback, $24.95t
ISBN 978-1-61117-071-9
hardcover, $39.95s
eISBN 978-1-61117-279-9
ebook, $24.95t
A pictorial tribute to the rich natural and human
history of a lavish floodplain and a call for its
conservation
Available
10 x 11, 112 pages, 129 color illus.
ISBN 978-0-615-56259-9
hardcover, $34.95t
Distributed for the Congaree
Land Trust
T
“I love the organization of A Delicate Balance. Dr. Halfacre picked the right stories
to capture the recent history of our region’s
conservation movement, and her explanations of the current sustainability discussions in the lowcountry are easily understood and enlightening.”—Chris Marsh,
executive director, Lowcountry Institute
“A Delicate Balance is a book we’ve been
waiting for, and everybody should read
it. Angela Halfacre gives us not only the
big picture but also something even more
important: hope for the land we love.”
—Josephine Humphreys, author of Rich in
Love and others
“South Carolina’s fabled lowcountry is
chronicled in southern literature and venerated by residents and visitors alike. Yet
the story of the landscape’s preservation is
itself compelling. Angela Halfacre skillfully
chronicles the history of the unique culture
of conservation that emerged in South
Carolina to protect our beaches, wetlands,
creeks, and more.”—Mary Alice Monroe,
New York Times best-selling author
hrough the striking color images of more than
twenty photographers and text by John Cely,
this book shares with readers the beauty and legacy
of the Cowasee Basin. Located in central South
Carolina along the Congaree, Wateree, and Upper
Santee Rivers, the 215,000-acre Cowasee Basin, an
acronym for the three rivers that hold it together,
features some of the most significant biological,
historical, and cultural resources in North America.
The heart of the basin is Congaree National Park,
the Palmetto State’s only national park, a landmark
that features extraordinary biological diversity,
including one of the tallest hardwood forests in the
temperate world, along with six national champion
trees and two dozen state champion trees. The
Cowasee Basin is also the home of the beautiful
Poinsett State Park, Manchester State Forest, the
Congaree Bluffs Heritage Preserve, and the finest
flat water paddling destination in South Carolina,
Sparkleberry Swamp. The rivers and abundant hills
make Cowasee a sports enthusiast’s and naturalist’s
paradise.
The region is also steeped in historical significance. It was the scene of the first exploration of
the North American interior when Hernando De
Soto and his 600 Spanish conquistadors traveled
through the area in the spring of 1540 searching for
the legendary Indian town of Cofitachequi. During
the American Revolution, Cowasee was the setting
for some of that war’s most distinguished leaders,
including General Nathanael Greene; Thomas
Sumter; Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox”; William
“Danger” Thomson; and “Light-horse” Harry Lee.
The basin is also home to thirty sites on the
National Register of Historic Places and one
National Historic District, Stateburg.
Cowasee Basin includes a preface by Billy Cate,
executive director of the Congaree Land Trust, and
a foreword by Walter Edgar, South Carolina’s leading
historian and author of South Carolina: A History.
Publication was made possible by the generosity of
the Dorothy and Edward Kendall Foundation and
grants from Friends of Congaree Swamp and the
Richland County Conservation Commission.
The University of South Carolina Press
John Cely retired as a biologist
with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and is
now the land protection director
for the Congaree Land Trust. Cely
has spent more than forty years
exploring the Cowasee Basin.
www.sc.edu/uscpress
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Music | South Carolina
Seeking
A Concert Dedicated to the Painting Seeking
Available
5½ x 6, with liner notes and
foldout poster
ISBN 978-1-61117-305-5
audio CD, $18.95t
Distributed for Baxter Music
Enterprises, LLC
Produced by Jack McCray and
Quentin E. Baxter
Eight original music compositions inspired by the art of
Jonathan Green
O
n March 8, 2008, a historic event was held at the
Circular Congregational Church in Charleston,
South Carolina. The concert “Gullah Expressions” was a
visual and aural experience designed to celebrate the work
of Gullah artist Jonathan Green and his painting Seeking,
a metaphor for spiritual quest and personal discovery.
In true Gullah fashion, the resulst is an extension of that
seeking for spirit and purpose in life.
In “Messages” composer Trevor Weston of the College
of Charleston paints a sound picture of the seeking experience that Green captured on canvas. Weston’s work, while
classical in form, draws directly on Gullah traditions. With
“I Know the Lord Got His Hands on Me,” the current
generation of the Moving Star Hall Singers—an a cappella
group that sings, claps, and stomps traditional lowcountry
music—rattle the floorboards and send out sonorous
waves of life, joy, and music. Drawing on South Carolina’s
jazz roots, trumpeter and bandleader Charlton Singleton
and his quartet performed several of their original
compositions to interpret, improvise, and personalize the
structured Gullah themes in a free-form, jazz experience.
Produced by the late jazz historian and writer
Jack McCray and renowned jazz drummer
Quentin E. Baxter with the support of Arts
Advocacy, LLC, the concert’s audio CD serves
as a testament to the universality and connectivity of the human experience central to Jonathan
Green’s inspirational artwork, and to the sense of
discovery and hope that can spring from music
and art.
ALSO AVAILABLE
2013, hc, 978-1-61117-091-7, $39.95s
pb, 978-1-61117-092-4, $19.95t
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800-768-2500
2012, DVD, 978-1-61117-155-6, $25.00
The University of South Carolina Press
1996, hc, 978-1-57003-145-8, $49.95t
New in paperback and ebook
Biography | Performing Arts
African American History
Sissieretta Jones
“The Greatest Singer of Her Race,”
1868–1933
February
6 x 9, 312 pages, 15 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-280-5
paperback, $24.95t
ISBN 978-1-61117-072-6
hardcover, $39.95t
eISBN 978-1-61117-281-2
ebook, $24.95
Maureen D. Lee
A biography of a distinguished African American
musical pioneer
M
atilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, nicknamed “Black
Patti,” after the well-known Spanish-born opera
star Adelina Patti, was a distinguished African American
soprano during the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Performing in such venues as Carnegie Hall and
Madison Square Garden, Jones also sang before four U.S.
presidents. In this compelling biography, Maureen D. Lee
chronicles Jones’s ability to overcome racial bias and build
an inspirational career performing on hundreds of stages
throughout North America and Europe.
A role model for other African American women, Jones
was successful despite the many challenges she faced
during the rise of Jim Crow segregation. She began as a
concert singer of ballads and operatic pieces and eventually starred in her own musical comedy company, the
Black Patti Troubadours. Critics praised Jones as America’s
leading African American prima donna, with some even
dubbing her voice one in a million.
Lee’s research, using black newspapers, concert reviews,
and court documents, brings overdue recognition to an
important historical songstress and provides a comprehensive, moving portrait of Jones and a vivid overview of the
exciting world in which she performed.
“Maureen D. Lee does yeoman’s work to excavate
what facts there are about Jones’s life and career. . . .
Her story is a moving one . . . [and] in documenting
the struggles and triumphs of a true pioneer, Lee has
recaptured the humanity of an important artist.”
—Opera News
“Maureen Lee makes an extremely valuable
contribution to our understanding of the essence
of Sissieretta Jones’s professional life. Exhaustive
research, excellent organization, and a very descriptive writing style all make this book an excellent
read.”—Karen Chandler, College of Charleston and
Charleston Jazz Initiative
Maureen D. Lee is a retired public relations
professional and a former newspaper journalist, magazine editor, and university research
associate. Lee grew up in Rhode Island, the state
Sissieretta Jones called home for most of her life.
Lee holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from
Rhode Island College. She lives in Columbia,
South Carolina, where she and her husband,
John, own and operate Lee’s Book Attic.
“I have long awaited someone like Maureen Lee who would take a closer look at
Sissieretta Jones, Rhode Island’s and the
nation’s most successful African American
singer during a difficult age. The result is a
stunning biography of piercing intensity
and beauty.”—Ray Rickman, Rhode Island
Black Heritage Society
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“Maureen Lee has provided a detailed
and highly informative review of a sadly
neglected superstar singer of the American concert and vaudeville stage at the
beginning of the twentieth century. The
remarkable life and accomplishments of
the ‘Black Patti’ . . . need to be more fully
incorporated into the broad cultural story
of America in order to understand the true
diversity of our country’s entertainment
history.”—Thomas L. Riis, director, author
of Just before Jazz: Black Musical Theater in
New York, 1890 to 1915
2011, pb, 978-1-57003-979-9, $24.95s
The University of South Carolina Press
www.sc.edu/uscpress
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South Carolina
Palmetto Profiles
The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to
the South Carolina Hall of Fame
June
6 x 9, 224 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-284-3
hardcover, $39.95s
ISBN 978-1-61117-285-0
paperback, $21.95t
eISBN 978-1-61117-286-7
ebook, $21.95t
South Carolina Encyclopedia
Guides
Walter Edgar, series editor
ALSO AVAILABLE
2006, hc, 978-1-57003-598-2, $65.00t
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800-768-2500
Edited by W. Eric Emerson
Foreword by Walter Edgar
Extraordinary South Carolinians memorialized for their
lasting legacies in the Palmetto State and beyond
P
almetto Profiles documents the lives and accomplishments of the inductees of the South Carolina Hall
of Fame during its first forty years. As Governor John C.
West predicted in his dedication speech, the Hall of Fame
has indeed become a “vital and integral part of the history
and culture of South Carolina.” Nearly ninety citizens have
been inducted since Apollo 16 astronaut Colonel Charles
Duke, Jr., became the first honoree in 1973. Each year one
contemporary and one deceased individual is recognized
by the hall for outstanding contributions to South
Carolina’s heritage and progress.
To date, inductees have included political leaders and
reformers, artists, writers, scientists, soldiers, clergy,
educators, athletes, and others. U.S. president Andrew
Jackson, authors Elizabeth Coker and Pat Conroy, jazz
legend Dizzy Gillespie, artists Jasper Johns and Elizabeth
O’Neil Verner, Catawba King Hagler, Generals Francis
Marion and Thomas Sumter, civil rights leaders Mary
McLeod Bethune and Reverend Benjamin E. Mays, U.S.
senators J. Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, and Nobel
Prize–winning physicist Charles H. Townes are just some
of the representative South Carolinians memorialized in
the Hall of Fame for their lasting legacies in the Palmetto
State and beyond.
Published on the fortieth anniversary of the opening
of the South Carolina Hall of Fame and drawn from biographical entries in The South Carolina Encyclopedia, this
guidebook presents concise profiles of the inductees from
1973 to 2013. Palmetto Profiles, like the Hall of Fame itself,
2012, ebook, 978-1-61117-149-5, $18.95t
serves as a tangible link to South Carolina’s rich
and complex past to the benefit of residents,
visitors, and students alike. The volume also
includes illustrations of all inductees and a
foreword by Walter Edgar, a 2008 Hall of Fame
inductee, author of South Carolina: A History,
and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia.
W. Eric Emerson is a trustee of the South
Carolina Hall of Fame and the director of the
South Carolina Department of Archives and
History. He is the author of Sons of Privilege: The
Charleston Light Dragoons in the Civil War and
the coeditor of Faith, Valor, and Devotion: The
Civil War Letters of William Porcher DuBose and
A Confederate Englishman: The Civil War Letters
of Henry Wemyss Feilden.
2012, ebook, 978-1-61117-151-8, $18.95t
The University of South Carolina Press
2012, ebook, 978-1-61117-150-1, $18.95t
A Confederate
Englishman
Civil War | South Carolina
The Civil War Letters of
Henry Wemyss Feilden
March
6 x 9, 216 pages, 8 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-135-8
hardcover, $29.95s
Edited by W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes
The wartime correspondence of a British officer turned
Confederate captain under P. G. T. Beauregard
A
Confederate Englishman presents for the first time
the fascinating Civil War correspondence of Henry
Wemyss Feilden (1838–1921), a young British officer who
resigned his commission and ran the blockade to become
a Confederate staff officer in Charleston, South Carolina.
Editors W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes have compiled
Feilden’s letters to chart the history of his eventful career
in the Confederacy from the time of his arrival in South
Carolina in 1863 to the end of the war.
Born the second son of the Baronet of Feniscowles,
Feilden had experienced much before his arrival in
America. As a young officer, he served during the Indian
Mutiny and during the Second Opium War in China. His
fascination and empathy with the Confederacy, however,
led the young Englishman to risk his life to run the Federal
blockade of Charleston. After traveling to Richmond,
Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, to obtain a commission as captain in the Confederate Army, he returned
to Charleston to serve on the staff of General P. G. T.
Beauregard, whom he greatly admired. During the war
Feilden married a young South Carolinian, Julia McCord.
His witty, vivid, highly readable, and sometimes romantic
letters to her offer a compelling view into the operations
of the military department headquartered in Charleston,
conditions and events in and around the besieged city, and
the heart of a man in love.
A Confederate Englishman provides the insight and
perspective of Feilden’s experiences with operations in the
large and vital Department of South Carolina, Georgia,
and Florida during the war’s final two years. After the war
Feilden returned to England with his wife to resume his
career in the British army, and later he became a noted
Arctic explorer and naturalist. In addition to his Civil
War correspondence, A Confederate Englishman features
a selection of Feilden’s letters from the early twentieth
century that include his reflections on his extraordinary
life, his service to the Confederacy, and his beloved wife of
fifty-six years.
Emerson’s introduction examines Feilden’s background
and character and the reasons behind his choice to fight
for the Confederacy. It also delves into Feilden’s astute
assessment of Confederate capabilities late in the war and
his decision to benefit financially from blockade running.
W. Eric Emerson is the director of the South
Carolina Department of Archives and History
in Columbia. Emerson is the author of Sons of
Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the
Civil War and the coeditor of Faith, Valor, and
Devotion: The Civil War Letters of William Porcher
DuBose. He also has served as the director of
the Charleston Library Society and the South
Carolina Historical Society.
Karen Stokes is an archivist at the South
Carolina Historical Society in Charleston. She
is the author of many articles on South Carolina
history and a contributor to The Civil War in
South Carolina: Selections from the South Carolina
Historical Magazine. Stokes is the coeditor with
W. Eric Emerson of Faith, Valor, and Devotion:
The Civil War Letters of William Porcher DuBose.
ALSO AVAILABLE
2011, pb, 978-1-61117-010-8, $19.95t
hc, 978-1-57003-592-0, $24.95t
2010, hc, 978-1-57003-912-6, $49.95s
The University of South Carolina Press
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Civil Rights |
South Carolina | Memoir
New in paperback
In Richard’s World
The Battle of Charleston, 1966
April
6 x 9, 296 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-248-5
paperback, $16.95s
Southern Classics
Mark M. Smith, series editor
William H. Barnwell
With a New Introduction by the Author
A stirring firsthand account of lowcountry race relations
during a turbulent period in civil rights history
I
ALSO AVAILABLE
n 1966, as a seminarian at the Virginia Theological
Seminary, William H. Barnwell undertook a summer’s
missionary work at St. John’s Episcopal Mission Center in
his native city of Charleston, South Carolina. His supervisor was an African American priest, and Barnwell’s duties
ran the gamut from managing the recreation room to crisis
intervention among the mission’s clients and neighbors. In
Richard’s World is based on letters and journal entries that
Barnwell kept throughout 1966, a year of social upheaval
and civil rights unrest in Charleston. It was during this
time that Barnwell encountered the “Battle of Charleston”
within himself. His activist education began during that
summer as he moved culturally and politically between
white and black communities on the Charleston peninsula
and served in a church known more for its members’ elite
pedigrees than for social action.
This Southern Classics edition includes a new introduction by the author that is part autobiography and
part survey of the successes and failures of the civil rights
movement in lowcountry South Carolina since In Richard’s
World was first published.
“In Richard’s World changed my life. It was the main
reason I applied to teach at an all-black school on
Daufuskie Island. That experience became the basis
for my book The Water Is Wide. Barnwell is a shameless white, southern liberal just like me … and he
writes beautifully.”—Pat Conroy
2011, hc, 978-1-61117-048-1, $29.95t
“An affectingly candid depiction of conflict and
growth, the confrontation within one person of two
worlds that should gain sympathy not only for the
author but for his South.”—Kirkus Reviews
“An unusual, personal, and deeply emotional book
on black and white [relations] in the South.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The best of the book is found in William’s exceptional honesty.”—New York Times Book Review
2011, pb, 978-1-57003-971-3, $29.95s
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The University of South Carolina Press
William Barnwell grew up in Charleston,
South Carolina, graduated from the University
of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee; served
as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard; and
graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary.
He has been a pastor at churches in Conway
and Columbia, South Carolina; New Orleans;
and Boston; and he served at the Washington
National Cathedral as the canon missioner. In
2008 he and his wife, Corinne, returned to New
Orleans, where he manages a national Episcopal
Church program, the Disciples of Christ in
Community (DOCC), and serves in prison
ministry and at various churches. His other
books include Our Story According to St. Mark
and Lead Me On, Let Me Stand: A Clergyman’s
Story in White and Black.
“This is a remarkably candid story of what
the author saw and thought and felt and
what response he received from his many
friends and relatives in the exclusive section of the city below Broad Street. It is a
book that will be considered controversial,
for the author, a descendant of many of
the oldest and most distinguished families
of the Carolina Lowcountry, makes no attempt to hide his feelings as he struggles
to work in the slums from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
each day and then drives home, not too
many blocks, to the comfort and prosperity
of the genteel world of old Charleston.”
—Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier
New in paperback
American Revolution |
Southern History
Three Peoples, One King
Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the
Revolutionary South, 1775–1782
February
6 x 9, 472 pages, 34 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-192-1
paperback, $24.95s
eISBN 978-1-61117-193-8
ebook, $24.95t
Jim Piecuch
A comprehensive study of the wartime roles and fates of
three groups who stood with Britain against colonial rebels
T
hree Peoples, One King explores the contributions
and conjoined fates of Loyalists, Indians, and slaves
who stood with the British Empire in the Deep South
colonies during the American Revolution. Challenging the
traditional view that British efforts to regain control of the
Southern colonies were undermined by a lack of local support, Jim Piecuch demonstrates the breadth of loyal assistance provided by these three groups in South Carolina,
Georgia, and East and West Florida. Piecuch attributes the
ultimate failure of the Crown’s Southern campaign to the
ruthless program of violent suppression of Loyalist forces
carried out by the revolutionaries and to Britain’s inability
to capitalize fully on the support available.
Other studies have assessed the stance of white Loyalist
militias and the efforts of revolutionaries to woo them or
defeat them, but Piecuch’s is the first to offer a synthetic
approach to all three Loyalist populations—white, black,
and Native American—in the South during this era. He
subjects each of the groups to intensive investigation,
making new discoveries in the histories of escaped or
liberated slaves and of still-powerful Indian tribes, and in
the bitter legacies of white loyalism. Aided by thirty-four
illustrations and maps, Piecuch’s pathbreaking study will
appeal to scholars and students of American history as well
as Revolutionary War enthusiasts.
“Piecuch’s book is a much needed and welcomed
addition to the history of the American Revolution
in the South and of its Loyalist, Indian, and slave
participants.”—Georgia Historical Quarterly
Jim Piecuch is an associate professor of history
at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, the
author of The Battle of Camden: A Documentary
History, and the coeditor of General Nathanael
Greene and the American Revolution in the South.
“The research undergirding this effort is
tremendous. Piecuch has been unstinting
in his pursuit of manuscript sources, and
his study is adequately informed by the latest secondary research. More importantly,
Piecuch is among the first to structure
a study of loyalism in the revolutionary South that incorporates Indians and
African Americans.”—William and Mary
Quarterly
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“Piecuch’s book provides a fresh treatment of the
field and helps the reader gain a better understanding of exactly what loyalty meant and how much
suffering occurred at the hands of the rebels. Piecuch reinforces the belief that loyalists were devoted
British subjects determined to maintain the connection between the colonies and the Crown and work
within the system to effect change.”—South Carolina
Historical Magazine
2012, hc, 978-1-61117-069-6, $39.95s
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Art | South Carolina
Abstract Art in South
Carolina: 1949–2012
South Carolina State Museum
Available
8 ½ x 11, 68 pages, 45 color illus.
ISBN 978-0-9836794-4-8
paperback, $19.95t
Distributed for the South Carolina
State Museum
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A comprehensive survey of abstract art by Palmetto
State artists from the mid-twentieth century to the
present
A
bstract Art in South Carolina: 1949–2012 was
first published in conjunction with an exhibition hosted by the South Carolina State Museum
in Columbia. The book celebrates the creativity of
South Carolina artists by focusing on abstract art
from across the state from the past sixty years, featuring forty-four artists and including art in mediums
ranging from abstract painting to sculpture.
Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, both
young art museums and university and college
art departments in South Carolina experienced a
significant amount of growth, bringing in artists from
across the state and beyond. Art departments were
able to hire more instructors and new museums were
able to open, including the Columbia Museum of
Art and the Greenville County Museum of Art. As a
result of the regional artistic boom, appreciation of
art and culture began to expand and South Carolina
artists were inspired to create new work, featuring
new techniques and non-representational subject
matter. Abstract Art in South Carolina contributes to
our understanding of South Carolina art by providing
a new look at a unique genre that represents artists
whose work is still garnering critical and commercial
acclaim as it continues to evolve.
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2012, pb, 978-0-9603246-4-4, $24.95t
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Robert Courtright
Tom Dimond
Jeanet Dreskin
Tom Flowers
David Freeman
William Halsey
Harry Hansen
William Ledyard
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Corrie McCallum
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Philip Mullen
Faith Murray
Michael Phillips
Catharine Rembert
Lynne Riding
2012, pb, 978-0-9603246-8-2, $24.95t
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Peggy Rivers
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Merton Simpson
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Laura Spong
Tom Stanley
Hollis Brown Thornton
Michael Tyzack
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Philip Whitley
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Return to the Sea
Art
Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto
Edited by Mark Sloan
Available
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163 color illus.
ISBN 978-1-4675-2127-7
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A vibrant catalog documenting fourteen years of saltworks by an acclaimed contemporary Japanese artist
C
ontemporary Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto
is known for working with salt—often in the
form of temporary, intricate, large-scale installations—and he has created acclaimed projects around
the world. Return to the Sea is the first book to take
measure of Yamamoto’s engagement with salt installations since he began making them in 1994.
Yamamoto began to create art out of salt while
mourning the death of his sister, in an effort to
preserve his memories. He views his installations as
exercises that are at once futile yet necessary to his
healing. An important aspect of the installation is the
dismantling of his work at the end of each show and
delivering the salt back to water, usually in collaboration with the public.
“Drawing a labyrinth with salt is like following a
trace of my memory. Memories seem to change
and vanish as time goes by; however, what I
seek is to capture a frozen moment that cannot
be attained through pictures or writing. What I
look for at the end of the act of drawing could
be a feeling of touching a precious memory.”
—Motoi Yamamoto
Distributed for the Halsey Institute
of Contemporary Art at the College
of Charleston
Motoi Yamamoto is an internationally renowned
artist who calls his native Japan home. He was born
in Onomichi, Hiroshima, in 1966 and received his
B.A. from Kanazawa College of Art in 1995. He has
exhibited his award-winning creations around the
globe in such cities as Athens, Cologne, Jerusalem,
Mexico City, Seoul, Tokyo, and Toulouse. He was
awarded the Philip Morris Art Award in 2002 as well
as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2003.
Mark Sloan is the director and senior curator of
the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the
College of Charleston School of the Arts. Sloan is
an accomplished photographer and the author or
coauthor of eight books.
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Photo: Stefan Warring
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2012, hc, 978-1-8905730-7-2, $24.95s
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Literary Studies
Understanding
Juan Benet
New Perspectives
March
6 x 9, 176 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-152-5
hardcover, $49.95s
Understanding Modern European
and Latin American Literature
James N. Hardin, series editor
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Benjamin Fraser
Understanding
Edmund White
Nicholas F. Radel
Foreword by Malcolm Alan Compitello
A concise analysis of the major works by an accomplished gay novelist, memoirist, and essayist
An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the
Spanish writer’s complete body of work
N
B
enjamin Fraser offers an engaging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the
literary achievements of Spanish writer Juan Benet
(1927–1993) that explores how Benet’s intertwined
perspectives as author and civil engineer collectively
shape his worldview. Benet’s intellectual range not
only spanned novels, plays, short stories, and essays
but also incorporated dams, bridges, canals, and
other public works. Fraser offers a fresh vantage
point on Benet’s writing as invested in both literary
and concrete landscapes. Fraser begins his study by grounding readers
of Benet’s work in the fundamental importance of
understanding the Spanish Civil War. Subsequent
chapters offer new perspectives on Benet’s literary
and essayistic production, first viewing Benet’s work
through the lens of his profession as a civil engineer
and exploring lesser known engineering texts and
essays in relation to his creative and literary vision,
then mapping the influence of French philosopher
Henri Bergson (1859–1941) on the Spanish writer’s
oeuvre. Fraser also harnesses the development of
cultural geography and spatial theory to explore the
roles of place and space in Benet’s novels—highlighting in particular the elaborate spatial dimensions of Benet’s own invented cartography of the
novelistic place he called “Región.”
Understanding Juan Benet ventures beyond
traditional literary study, pursuing the interdisciplinary conversations central to Benet’s creative work in
which history, fiction, engineering, philosophy, and
cultural geography all interact. This introduction to
Benet’s writing also includes a foreword by Malcolm
Alan Compitello, author of Ordering the Evidence:
Volverás a Región and Civil War Fiction and coeditor
of Critical Approaches to the Writing of Juan Benet.
Benjamin Fraser is an assistant professor in the
Department of Hispanic Studies at the College of
Charleston. Managing editor of the Arizona Journal
of Hispanic Cultural Studies and executive editor of
the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Fraser is also
the author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban
Experience: Reading the Mobile City and Encounters
with Bergson(ism) in Spain.
The University of South Carolina Press
icholas F. Radel’s Understanding Edmund
White, the first book-length critical study
of White’s work, examines America’s best-known
gay novelist within the changing social contexts of
the past half-century, when gay and lesbian people
moved from being seen as psychologically deviant to
being increasingly accepted as productive members
of society. Radel explores the ways White documents this cultural transition, in both his fiction and
his nonfiction, and contributes to it by making gay
writing a source for new knowledge of sexuality.
Taking into account recent scholarship on
White, Radel provides insightful analysis of the
author’s autobiographical novels and short stories,
from A Boy’s Own Story through The Married Man
and Chaos. Understanding Edmund White makes
White’s early experimental novels, Forgetting Elena,
Nocturnes for the King of Naples, and Caracole, as
well as his later historical fiction, Fanny and Hotel de
Dream, accessible by showing how their emphasis
on sexuality and social change connects them to
the autobiographical fictions. Radel also shows
how White’s most recent novel, Jack Holmes and
His Friend, deftly combines historical and autobiographical narratives to become one of the author’s
most nuanced explorations of American sexuality.
Understanding Edmund White additionally contains
a new, previously unpublished interview with White
that provides revealing information about the impact
his work as a biographer has had on his later fiction.
Grounded in ongoing critical debates in social and
literary theory central to understanding contemporary gay literature, Radel’s introduction to White’s
complex literary vision portrays the writer’s evolving
perceptions of the issues confronting his gay
characters and narrators, boys and men who struggle
in the early autobiographical novels to achieve a
sense of self-worth but assume in the later novels and
nonfiction confident voices that speak for and about
American culture and sexualities of all types.
Literary Studies
February
6 x 9, 160 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-136-5
hardcover, $39.95s
Understanding Contemporary
American Literature
Linda Wagner-Martin, series editor
2008, hc, 978-1-57003-749-8, $39.95s
Literary Studies |
Religious Studies
Stephen J. Schuler
An insightful mapping of the influence of St. Augustine’s writing on Auden’s later poetry
August
6 x 9, 248 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-243-0
hardcover, $49.95s
W
Nicholas F. Radel is a professor of English
at Furman University in Greenville, South
Carolina, and coeditor of The Puritan
Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality,
and National Identity in American Literature.
Radel’s articles on Edmund White have
appeared in edited collections, literary
encyclopedias, and journals including
Modern Fiction Studies. His essays on
American film and drama have appeared
in Essays in Theatre, Cinema Journal, and
elsewhere.
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The Augustinian
Theology of
W. H. Auden
hen W. H. Auden returned to Christianity
in the early 1940s, he identified himself
with what he called an “existential” method of
spiritual and literary inquiry, which the writings
of St. Augustine helped him define as a mode of
thinking that not only allows for human subjectivity,
but emphasizes the hopes, fears, needs, desires, and
anxieties of the individual. Augustine thus became
for Auden a model of a thinker who seamlessly
merged psychological reflection with philosophical
speculation and theological insight, and it is this
combination of introspection and theoretical investigation that shapes much of Auden’s later poetry.
The Augustinian Theology of W. H. Auden illustrates that Augustine’s thought is a major influence
on Auden’s postconversion poetry and prose. Auden
encountered Augustine both directly, through his
reading of the Confessions, and indirectly, through
several of Auden’s contemporaries, such as Reinhold
Niebuhr, Charles Norris Cochrane, and Charles
Williams. Stephen J. Schuler argues that Augustine
provided Auden with the language of privation to
describe the nature of moral and social evil, enabling
him to make sense of the pervasive anxieties
produced by World War II. Augustine’s works also
offered Auden a rationale for his intuition that the
physical world, and especially the human body, is
intrinsically good. Auden’s struggle to reconcile the
implications of his Augustinian theology with his
attitudes toward romantic love and sexuality are
explained by Schuler, who demonstrates how the
Augustinian theology of Reinhold Niebuhr helped
shape Auden’s ideas about human identity and
community, which is defined and maintained by
love in all its various forms. Finally, Schuler analyses
Auden’s Augustinian view of the ethics of poetry.
By examining the presence of Augustinian ideas
in Auden’s poetry and prose, Schuler establishes the
Augustinian origins of several crucial but often misunderstood features of Auden’s work as well as the
importance of Augustine in shaping and articulating
the concerns of Auden’s later poetry.
Stephen J. Schuler is an assistant professor of English at the University of Mobile in Alabama, where
he teaches British literature and honors English.
The University of South Carolina Press
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Women’s Studies |
Communication
February
6 x 9, 176 pages, 6 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-153-2
hardcover, $49.95s
ISBN 978-1-61117-154-9
paperback, $24.95s
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Tell It Like It Is
Breast or Bottle?
Mary E. Triece
Amy Koerber
A compelling study of how a marginalized group
formed a national movement for social justice
An interdisciplinary examination of the changing
rhetoric of infant-feeding discourse
I
B
Women in the National Welfare
Rights Movement
n Tell It Like It Is, Mary E. Triece brings to light
a lesser known yet influential social movement
of the late 1960s and early 1970s—the welfare
rights movement, led and run largely by poor black
mothers in the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). Her study combines theory and
critical analysis to explore rhetorical strategies and
direct actions women employed as they argued for
fair welfare legislation in both formal policy debates
and in the streets. Triece focuses on how welfare
recipients spoke for themselves in forums often
marked by widely held stereotypes.
Triece explains the influence of racism on welfare
legislation throughout the early 1900s and explores
how welfare recipients cultivated agency while challenging stereotypes such as the “welfare cheat” and
the “welfare mother.” To illuminate her study, Triece
uses historical documents including pamphlets, flyers, position statements, and convention materials.
She examines the official newspaper of the NWRO,
the Welfare Fighter, and draws on the congressional
testimonies of welfare recipients, providing the first
in-depth look at the ways that these women represented themselves in this formal political forum.
Tell It Like It Is presents an interdisciplinary study
touching on communication, rhetoric, politics,
feminist theory, and the intersections of race, class,
gender, and sexuality. It also engages in ongoing
scholarly debate regarding language, knowledge,
reality, and the potential for social change. Triece
contributes to each of these disciplines as she
explores how a marginalized and beleaguered people
managed to mobilize a nationwide movement.
Mary E. Triece is a professor in the School of Communication at the University of Akron. She is the
author of Protest and Popular Culture: Women in the
U.S. Labor Movement, 1894–1917 and On the Picket
Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the
Depression, winner of the Bonnie Ritter Book Award.
Triece has also published in Critical Studies in Mass
Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Communication Studies, Women’s Studies in Communication,
and the Western Journal of Communication.
2008, hc, 978-1-57003-746-7, $39.95s
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Contemporary Controversies in InfantFeeding Policy and Practice
reast or Bottle? is the first scholarly examination
of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations
occurring over the last half century. Through a close
analysis of scientific and medical controversies and
a critical examination of the ways in which medical
beliefs are communicated to the public, Amy
Koerber exposes layers of shifting arguments and
meaning that inform contemporary infant-feeding
advocacy and policy.
Whereas the phrase “breast or bottle” might once
have implied a choice between two relative equals,
human milk is now believed to possess unique
health-promoting qualities. Although it is tempting
to view this revision in medical thinking as solely the
result of scientific progress, Koerber argues that a
progress-based interpretation is incomplete. Epidemiologic evidence demonstrating the health benefits
of human milk has grown in recent years, but the
story of why these forms of evidence have dramatically increased in recent decades, Koerber reveals,
is a tale of the dedicated individuals, coalitions,
and organizations engaged in relentless rhetorical
efforts to improve our scientific explanations and
cultural appreciation of human milk, lactation, and
breastfeeding in the context of a historical tendency
to devalue these distinctly female aspects of the
human body. Koerber demonstrates that the rhetoric
used to promote breastfeeding at a given time and
cultural moment not only reflects a preexisting
reality but also shapes the infant-feeding experience
for new mothers.
Koerber’s claims are grounded in extensive rhetorical research including textual analysis, archival
research, and interviews with key stakeholders in
the breastfeeding controversy. Her approach offers a
vital counterpoint to other feminist analyses of the
shift toward probreastfeeding scientific discourse
and presents a revealing rhetorical case study in the
complex relationship between scientific data and its
impact on medical policy and practices. The resulting interdisciplinary study will be of keen interest to
scholars and students of rhetoric, communication,
women’s studies, medical humanities, and public
health as well as medical practitioners and policymakers.
Public Health |
Communication
May
6 x 9, 192 pages, 3 illus.
ISBN 978-1-61117-241-6
paperback, $29.95s
eISBN 978-1-61117-246-1
ebook, $29.95t
Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
Thomas W. Benson, series editor
Burke in the Archives
Rhetoric/Communication
Edited by Dana Anderson and
Jessica Enoch
June
6 x 9, 240 pages
ISBN 978-1-61117-238-6
hardcover, $49.95s
eISBN 978-1-61117-239-3
ebook, $49.95t
Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
Thomas W. Benson, series editor
Using the Past to Transform the Future
of Burkean Studies
New interpretations of Kenneth Burke drawn from
unprecedented ivestigations into his archival materials
B
Amy Koerber is an associate professor
of communication and rhetoric at Texas
Tech University and editor of the journal
Technical Communication Quarterly. Koerber’s articles on the rhetorics of infant
feeding and related subjects have appeared
in Women’s Studies in Communication, the
Journal of Medical Humanities, the Journal
of Business and Technical Communication,
Health Communication, and elsewhere.
urke in the Archives brings together thirteen
original essays by leading and emerging
Kenneth Burke scholars to explore provocatively the
twenty-first-century usefulness of a figure widely
regarded as the twentieth century’s most influential
rhetorician. Edited by Dana Anderson and Jessica
Enoch, the volume breaks new ground as it complicates, extends, and ultimately transforms how the
field of rhetorical studies understands Burke, calling
much-needed attention to the roles that archival
materials can and do play in this process.
Although other scholars have indeed looked to
Burke’s archives to advance their work, no individual
essays, books, or collections purposefully reflect on
the archive’s role in transforming rhetorical scholars’
understandings of Burke. By drawing on an impressively varied range of archival materials—including
unpublished letters, newly recovered reviews, notes
on articles, drafts of essays, and even comments on
student papers from Burke’s years of teaching—the
essays in this volume mount distinct, powerful
arguments about how archival materials have
the potential to reshape and invigorate rhetorical
scholarship.
This collection pursues Burke behind the
arguments of his major works to the divergent
preoccupations, habits of mind, breakthroughs, and
breakdowns of his insight. Through the archival
arguments and analyses that unify its essays, Burke
in the Archives showcases how historiographic and
methodological work can propel Burke scholarship
in new directions.
Contributors
Ann George • Keith Gibson
Debra Hawhee • Ian Hill
Jordynn Jack • Jodie Nicotra
Ned O’Gorman • Jeff Pruchnic
Jeannette Sabre • Jack Selzer
Michelle Smith • Sandy Stelts
Dave Tell • Scott Wible
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Dana Anderson is an associate professor of English
at Indiana University and the author of Identity’s
Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion.
Poster from the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign urging mothers to breastfeed
for six months for health reasons.
Jessica Enoch is an associate professor of English
at the University of Maryland and the author of
Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching
African American, Native American, and Chicana/o
Students, 1865–1911.
2007, hc, 978-1-57003-700-9, $49.95s
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Projects of the Simms Initiatives
University of South Carolina Libraries
The Yemassee
A Romance of Carolina
William Gilmore Simms
In partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, the
Simms Initiatives at the University of South Carolina Libraries
reissues authoritative editions
of out-of-print works by William
Gilmore Simms, antebellum South
Carolina’s preeminent man of letters. Each volume has a new critical
introduction and a biographical
overview. Full content from these
volumes, once available, is also
online via the University of South
Carolina Libraries Digital Collections at http://digital.tcl.sc.edu.
Critical Introduction by
David Moltke-Hansen
Available
6 x 9, 454 pages, ISBN 978-1-61117-024-5
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1853
The Wigwam and
the Cabin
William Gilmore Simms
Critical Introduction by
David Moltke-Hansen
February
6 x 9, 518 pages, ISBN 978-1-61117-064-1
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1856
Castle Dismal
or The Bachelor’s
Christmas
William Gilmore Simms
Critical Introduction by John M.
McCardell, Jr. and Brian K. Fennessy
April
6 x 9, 224 pages, ISBN 978-1-61117-261-4
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Burgess, Stringer & Co.
Edition, 1844
Simms’s Poems
Areytos or Songs and Ballads of the
South with Other Poems
William Gilmore Simms
Critical Introduction by Jason W. Johnson
April
6 x 9, 466 pages, ISBN 978-1-61117-262-1
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1860
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Poems
Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary, and
Contemplative
William Gilmore Simms
Critical Introduction by Matthew C. Brennan
August
6 x 9, 736, ISBN 978-1-61117-055-9
paper, $39.95s
Reproduced from the Redfield Edition, 1853
Views and Reviews
in American
Literature, History
and Fiction
William Gilmore Simms
Critical Introduction by
David Moltke-Hansen
August
6 x 9, 422, 422 pages, ISBN 978-1-61117-056-6
paper, $29.95s
Reproduced from the Wiley and Putnam Edition,
1845–46
From a Tiny Corner
in the House of
Fiction
Conversations with Iris Murdoch
Edited by Gillian Dooley
“An excellent collection . . . A significant
contribution to the Murdoch canon; one
that strengthens Murdoch’s enduring
voice.”—Australian Book Review
F
rom a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction
gathers into a single volume twentythree interviews with the British novelist and
philosopher Dame Iris Murdoch (1919–1999)
by some of the last half-century’s foremost
critics, academics, and journalists. Distinguished interviewers—including the renowned
scholar Sir Frank Kermode, the theater critic
Harold Hobson, and the writer and broadcaster
Jonathan Miller—talk with Murdoch about her
life, work, and philosophy.
6 x 9, 300 pages
ISBN 978-1-57003-499-2, hardcover, $34.95s
Foreign Slave Trade to North
America, 1783–1810
James A. McMillin
“This important book established the large
volume of the Atlantic slave trade after the
American Revolution and the major role of
Southern merchants. Based upon a variety
of American sources, it substantially revises
conclusions from studies focused mainly
on European slave trade voyage documents.”—Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, author of
Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth
Century
W
ith this detailed study of the importation of slaves to North America in the
decades following the American Revolution,
James A. McMillin uncovers data that challenges entrenched beliefs about the slave trade
and, as a result, has far-reaching implications for
our understanding of American life in the early
republic.
6 x 9, 224 pages, 13 illus., CD-ROM
ISBN 978-1-57003-546-3, hardcover, $39.95s
Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
Understanding
Rainer Werner
Fassbinder
Back in Print
The Final Victims
Film as Private and Public Art
Wallace Steadman Watson
Charismatic
Christianity as a
Global Culture
Edited by Karla Poewe
“A fascinating look at a worldwide phenomenon that has been all too easy to
compartmentalize or ignore. Those who
want an introduction to the literature on
charismaticism, or who simply wish to
distinguish it from pentecostalism and
fundamentalism, will find this a very useful book.”—David Stoll, author of Is Latin
America Turning Protestant?
L
eading scholars in the fields of religion
and anthropology discuss the thought
patterns and religious traditions of charismatics
throughout the world. By examining believers
throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, and
Europe, the contributors provide a comprehensive overview of a charismatic tapestry that
appears to transcend national, ethnic, racial, and
class boundaries.
6 x 9, 300 pages
ISBN 978-0-87249-996-6, hardcover, $39.95s
Studies in Comparative Religion
“Watson provides a far more intelligent
analysis of Fassbinder’s adaptations than
will be found in other books. . . . It has the
heft and feel of a labor of love that is both
scholarly and eminently readable, a book
that will be consulted for years to come.”
—Literature/Film Quarterly
U
nderstanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder
introduces scholars and students to the
controversial and prolific but brief career of a
filmmaker hailed as one of the New German
Cinema’s most talented exponents. Combining
a chronological survey with a thematic exploration, Wallace Steadman Watson reviews the
entirety of Fassbinder’s artistic output, focusing
specifically on fifteen of the filmmaker’s thirtyeight feature-length works.
6 x 9, 338 pages, 19 illus.
ISBN 978-1-57003-079-6, hardcover, $39.95s
Understanding Modern European and Latin
American Literature
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Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes
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Mary Whyte
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Lowcountry Time and Tide
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James H. Tuten
Dreamtime
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Sam Pickering
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John Herbert Roper Sr.
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I Belong to South Carolina
Carrie Allen McCray
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The Siege of Charleston, 1780
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Excursions into the Shenandoah Valley
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The Genuine Teachers of This Art
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An Artist’s Journey
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Country Women Cope with
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The Chief Justiceship of
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Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous Kurt Vonnegut’s America
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Jerome Klinkowitz
The University of South Carolina Press
Civil War–Era Diaries and Letters of
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Jim Harrison
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Reason’s Dark Champions
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William R. Casto
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