Date of Award
1-1-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A. in Southern Studies
First Advisor
Andy Harper
Second Advisor
Katie McKee
Third Advisor
Melanie Ho
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
Tennessee’s Mississippi is a four-episode audio documentary preview of a future podcast in the making. It centers on Tennessee Williams’ Mississippi plays and stories and how they connect to the real cultural history of this state. Williams is known as an international playwright, and while much scholarship has been done on his work, very little has focused on the significance of Mississippi in creating a place identity for his characters for his most successful plays in the first twenty-five years of his career. This place identity is even more apparent when he begins to move away from using Mississippi in the 1960s and his work becomes more experimental and more focused on his character’s problems of the mind and less focused on the embodied problems of race, gender, and sexuality that he connects to a Mississippi landscape.
Recommended Citation
Bright, Michelle, "Tennessee's Mississippi: an audio documentary" (2024). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2792.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/2792
Bright Presentation