Exposing Mississippi

Annette Trefzer is professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is author of Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction and coeditor of Global Faulkner, Faulkner's Sexualities, Faulkner and Mystery, Faulkner and Formalism, and Faulkner and the Native South, all published by University Press of Mississippi, and her work has appeared in many journals.

It is a straightforward factual observation and a brilliant lens for (re) thinking out understanding of Eudora Welty and the intricate expression of her artistic genius.--John Parrish Peede "Valley Voices" Exposing Mississippi makes a very significant contribution to our understanding of a canonized Mississippi artist as well as to our understanding of Mississippi during the era in which these photographs were taken. Of the published work on Welty's photography, no scholar has read all her photographs spatially. The quality of this analysis and historical contextualization is very high. This is unquestionably a valuable and important book.--Julia Eichelberger, editor of Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949 What did Eudora Welty see that moved her to choose this moment to capture? In Exposing Mississippi, Annette Trefzer answers this question and goes beyond--contextualizing the time, place, and culture for Welty's exposures--to help readers of her book and viewers of Welty's photographs to an enlarged understanding of Mississippi.--Pearl Amelia McHaney, author of A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs