Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Minrose Gwin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Print Materials:
Baldwin, James. Blues for Mister Charlie (a play). New York: Dial Press, 1964.
Gwin, Minrose. Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
——— "Did Ernest Like Gordon? Faulkner's Mosquitoes and the Bite of 'Gender Trouble'" in Faulkner and Gender: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1994, eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996: 120-144.
———. The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
——— "Feminism and Faulkner: Second Thoughts or, What's a Radical Feminist Doing with a Canonical Male Text Anyway?" Faulker Journal 4 (Fall 1988-Spring 1989): 55-65.
——— (ed). The Literature of the South: A Norton Anthology. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.
———. Wishing for Snow: A Memoir. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
———. The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Dell, 1968.
Walker, Margaret. Prophets for a New Day. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970.
Welty, Eudora. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. New York, Harvest Books, 1982.
Links:
Elaine Davenport, "Guilty as Charged." An overview of the Evers murder trial. Southern Changes. Volume 16, Number 1, 1994.
http://wilson.library.emory.edu/~ahickco/schanges/article.php?id=sc16-1_003&keyword=Medgar%20Evers
Elaine Davenport, "The Six New Witnesses." Excerpts from testimony in the Evers trial. Southern Changes. Volume 16, Number 1, 1994.
http://wilson.library.emory.edu/~ahickco/schanges/article.php?id=sc16-1_004&keyword=Medgar%20Evers
The Movement Remembered: "Like A Banked Fire" Southern Changes. Volume 5, Number 6, 1983.
Worth Long interviews Aurelia Norris Young about the freedom struggle in Jackson, Mississippi. Included are her memories of Medgar and Myrlie Evers.
http://wilson.library.emory.edu/~ahickco/schanges/article.php?id=sc05-6_006&keyword=myrlie
Southern Literary Journal
Gwin co-edits this scholarly journal about southern literature.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/slj/
Baldwin, James. Blues for Mister Charlie (a play). New York: Dial Press, 1964.
Gwin, Minrose. Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
——— "Did Ernest Like Gordon? Faulkner's Mosquitoes and the Bite of 'Gender Trouble'" in Faulkner and Gender: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1994, eds. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996: 120-144.
———. The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
——— "Feminism and Faulkner: Second Thoughts or, What's a Radical Feminist Doing with a Canonical Male Text Anyway?" Faulker Journal 4 (Fall 1988-Spring 1989): 55-65.
——— (ed). The Literature of the South: A Norton Anthology. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997.
———. Wishing for Snow: A Memoir. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
———. The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi. New York: Dell, 1968.
Walker, Margaret. Prophets for a New Day. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970.
Welty, Eudora. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. New York, Harvest Books, 1982.
Links:
Elaine Davenport, "Guilty as Charged." An overview of the Evers murder trial. Southern Changes. Volume 16, Number 1, 1994.
http://wilson.library.emory.edu/~ahickco/schanges/article.php?id=sc16-1_003&keyword=Medgar%20Evers
Elaine Davenport, "The Six New Witnesses." Excerpts from testimony in the Evers trial. Southern Changes. Volume 16, Number 1, 1994.
http://wilson.library.emory.edu/~ahickco/schanges/article.php?id=sc16-1_004&keyword=Medgar%20Evers
The Movement Remembered: "Like A Banked Fire" Southern Changes. Volume 5, Number 6, 1983.
Worth Long interviews Aurelia Norris Young about the freedom struggle in Jackson, Mississippi. Included are her memories of Medgar and Myrlie Evers.
http://wilson.library.emory.edu/~ahickco/schanges/article.php?id=sc05-6_006&keyword=myrlie
Southern Literary Journal
Gwin co-edits this scholarly journal about southern literature.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/slj/
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