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His debut novel, Company K, introduced William March to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic Graham Greene wrote: "It is the only war book I have read which has found a new form to fit the novelty of the protest. The prose is bare, lucid, without literary echoes." After Company K, March brought his same unerring style to a cycle of novels and short stories-his "Pearl County" series-inspired in part by his childhood in the vicinity of Mobile, Alabama. Come In at the Door is the first novel in that series. Before dawn one morning, little Chester is

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This Delta, This Land is a comprehensive environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta-the first one to place the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. The Delta, the floodplain between two great rivers in the northwestern corner of Mississippi, has changed enormously since the Civil War. Agriculture, lumbering, and flood-management schemes have transformed it beyond recognition-and beyond any prospects for a full recovery. However, says Mikko Saikku, the 150 years following the Civil War brought greater environmental change than we generally realize. Indeed, the long-term environmental history of the Delta is much more complex than our current view of it, which privileges recent periods rather than presenting the entire continuum. Looking across thousands of years, Saikku examines successive human societies in the Delta, drawing connections between environmental and social problems and noting differences between Native Americans and Euro-Americans in their economies, modes of production, and land-use patterns. Saikku's range of sources is astonishing: travel literature, naturalists' writings, government records, company archives, archaeological data, private correspondence, and more. As he documents how such factors as climate and water levels shaped the Delta, he also reveals the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slave and sharecropper economies, ethnic and racial perceptions of land ownership and stewardship, and even blues music.

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The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and '60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. Both poignant and thought provoking, Delta Fragments is Hodges's autobiographical journey back to the land of his birth. Brimming with vivid memories of family life, childhood friendships, the quest for knowledge, and the often brutal injustices of the Jim Crow South, it also offers an insightful meditation on the present state

African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Hodges, John Oliver, --- Childhood and youth. --- Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Social conditions --- Black people

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This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individuals and through collective struggle, black men and women fought back, demanding a just return for their crops and laying claim to a democratic vision of citizenship. Nan Woodruff shows how the freedom fighters of the 1960s would draw on this half-century tradition of protest, thus expanding our standard notions of the civil rights movement and illuminating a neglected but significant slice of the American black experience.

African Americans --- Sharecroppers --- Civil rights movements --- Plantation life --- Country life --- Civil liberation movements --- Liberation movements (Civil rights) --- Protest movements (Civil rights) --- Human rights movements --- Tenant farmers --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Civil rights --- History --- Social conditions --- Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Arkansas Delta (Ark.) --- Delta (Ark.) --- Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Race relations. --- Black people

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Presenting the first full-length collection of essays on Eudora Welty’s novel, Delta Wedding (1946), this volume is the fourth book in Rodopi Press’s Dialogue Series. Within these pages, emerging and experienced literary critics engage in an exciting dialogue about Welty’s noted novel, presenting a wide range of scholarship that focuses on feminist concerns, pays tribute to the rhetoric of exclusion and empowerment, examines the role of outsider and boundaries, explores meaning-making, and highlights the novel’s humor and musicality. This volume will no doubt be of interest to Welty aficianados as well as southern studies and feminist scholars and to those who are interested in the craft of writing fiction.

Women and literature --- Literature. --- Women and literature. --- Literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Welty, Eudora, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Delta wedding (Welty, Eudora) --- Nozze sul Delta (Welty, Eudora) --- Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Mississippi --- Southern States. --- Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- American South --- American Southeast --- Former Confederate States --- Southeast --- Southeast United States --- Southeastern States --- Southern United States --- The South --- U.S. --- In literature.