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MEMOIR | HISTORY OF MEDICINE Squint My Journey with Leprosy José P. Ramirez, Jr. How a sufferer of Hansen’s disease emerged from isolation and devoted his life to advocacy LLying in a hospital bed, José P. Ramirez, Jr. (b. 1948) almost lost everything because of a misunderstood disease. When the health department doctor gave him the Handbook for Persons with Leprosy, Ramirez learned his fate. Such a diagnosis in 1968 meant exile and hospitalization in the only leprosarium in the continental United States—Carville, Louisiana, 750 miles from his home in Laredo, Texas. In Squint: My Journey with Leprosy, Ramirez recalls being taken from his family in a hearse and thrown into a world filled with fear. He and his loved ones struggled against the stigma associated with the term “leper” and against beliefs that the disease was a punishment from God, that his illness was highly communicable, and that persons with Hansen’s disease had to be banished from their communities. His disease not only meant separation from the girlfriend who would later become his wife, but also a derailment of all life’s goals. In his struggle Ramirez overcame barriers both real and imagined and eventually became an international advocate on behalf of persons with disabilities. In Squint, titled for the sliver of a window through which persons with leprosy in medieval times were allowed to view Mass but not participate, Ramirez tells a story of love and perseverance over incredible odds. José P. Ramirez, Jr., is a social worker in Houston, Texas. He has written articles about Hansen’s disease for the Houston Chronicle, the Star Magazine, the National Association of Social Workers Newsletter, and other publications. FEBRUARY, 240 pages (approx.), 5½ x 8½ inches, 20 b&w illustrations Cloth $28.00T, 978-1-60473-119-4 Photograph—Magdalena and José at prom, 1966, courtesy the author Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography RELATED Carville Remembering Leprosy in America Marcia Gaudet Foreword by James carville Cloth $28.00S, 978-1-57806-693-3 12 University Press of Mississippi MEMOIR | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | BIOGRAPHY At Home Inside A Daughter’s Tribute to Ann Petry Elisabeth Petry Introduction by Gloria Wade Gayles AAnn Petry (1908–1997) was a prominent writer during a period in which few black writers were published with regularity in America. Her novels The Street, Country Place, and The Narrows, along with a collection of short stories and various essays and works of nonfiction, give voice to black experience outside of the traditional strains of poverty and black nationalism. At Home Inside: A Daughter’s Tribute to Ann Petry sifts the myriad contradictions of Ann Petry’s life from a daughter’s vantage. Ann Petry hoarded antiques but destroyed many of her journals. She wrote, but, failing to publish for years, she used her imagination to design and sew clothes, to bake, and to garden. When fame finally came, Ann Petry did not enjoy the travel it brought. Though she suffered phobias and anxieties all her life, she did not avoid the obligations of literary success until late in her career. Ann Petry applied her formidable skills to stories she told about herself and her family, and the corrections Elisabeth Petry makes to her mother’s inventions will prove invaluable. Talking about her life publicly, Ann Petry acknowledged six different birth dates. She hid her first marriage, and even represented her father, Peter C. Lane, Jr., as a potential killer. Mining Petry’s journals Elisabeth Petry creates part biography, part love letter, and part sounding of her mother’s genius and luminescent personality. Elisabeth Petry is a freelance writer with a juris doctor from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut, and is the editor of Can Anything Beat White A Black Family’s Letters (University Press of Mississippi). Gloria Wade Gayles is Eminent Scholar’s Chair in Independent Study, Scholarship, and Service at Spelman College. She is the author of several books and the editor of Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks (University Press of Mississippi). DECEMBER, 208 pages (approx.), 5½ x 8½ inches, 15 b&w illustrations, introduction Cloth $30.00T, 978-1-60473-100-2 Photograph—Ann and Elisabeth Petry in Saybrook, courtesy the author RELATED A remembrance of a reticent writer who attained substantial literary success while raising a family Can Anything Beat White Revising the Blueprint A Black Family’s Letters ann Petry and the Literary Left Compiled and Edited by Edited by Alex Lubin Elisabeth Petry Cloth $50.00S, 978-1-57806-971-2 INTRODUCTION BY FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN Cloth $35.00S, 978-1-57806-785-5 Call 1-800-737-7788 to order toll-free.
LITERATURE | BIOGRAPHY LITERATURE | BIOGRAPHY Conversations with Anthony Burgess Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll and Mary C. Ingersoll AAlthough he did not start publishing until middle age, Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) had over sixty published books to his credit by the time of his death. One of them, the short novel A Clockwork Orange (1962), was to bring him fame and notoriety outside England following the 1971 release of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation. The prominence of that single novel would impel its author to confront a public continually asking directly or by implication: What else have you written, Mr. Burgess Burgess produced scores of novels, biographies, books of literary criticism, film scripts, and news articles. A linguist and polyglot who was fluent in eight languages, he invented the language used in the 1981 film Quest for Fire. He translated and adapted Bizet’s Carmen, Weber’s Oberon, and other operas for the English stage. His ReJoyce: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader remains a standard in Joycean criticism. Conversations with Anthony Burgess captures, through indepth interviews, a writer of tremendous energy, inventiveness, and self-discipline. The collection brings together interviews from 1971 to 1989, including two pieces published for the first time. “After, as I say, the initial ‘essay’ in fiction, then you really go to work. You have to start using your imagination and not just your memory.” Earl G. Ingersoll is distinguished professor emeritus of English at SUNY College at Brockport. He has written, edited, and coedited many books, including Conversations with May Sarton and Conversations with Rita Dove, both from University Press of Mississippi. Mary C. Ingersoll is a retired elementary school teacher who specialized in teaching humanities to gifted students. OCTOBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index Unjacketed cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-095-1 Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-096-8 Literary Conversations Series Photograph—Anthony Burgess © Nancy Crampton also in the LITERARY CONVERSATIONS Series Conversations with John Fowles Edited by Dianne L. Vipond Paper $20.00T, 978-1-57806-191-4 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro Edited by Brian W. Shaffer and Cynthia F. Wong Paper $22.00T, 978-1-934110-62-1 Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin Edited by Carl Freedman CConversations with Ursula K. Le Guin assembles interviews with the renowned science-fiction and fantasy author of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and the Earthsea sequence of novels and stories. For nearly five decades, Le Guin (b. 1929) has enjoyed immense success—both critical and popular—in science fiction and fantasy. But she has also published well-received works in such genres as realistic fiction, poetry, children’s literature, criticism, and translation. In the pieces collected here, Le Guin takes every interview not as an opportunity to recapitulate long-held views but as an occasion for in-depth intellectual discourse. In interviews spanning over twenty-five years of her literary career, including a previously unpublished piece conducted by the volume’s editor, Le Guin talks about such diverse subjects as U.S. foreign policy, the history of architecture, the place of women and feminist consciousness in American literature, and the differences between science fiction and fantasy. Carl Freedman is professor of English at Louisiana State University and is the author of Critical Theory and Science Fiction; The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture; and George Orwell: A Study in Ideology and Literary Form. SEPTEMBER, 224 pages (approx.), 6 x 9 inches, introduction, chronology, index Unjacketed cloth $50.00S, 978-1-60473-093-7 Paper $22.00T, 978-1-60473-094-4 Literary Conversations Series Photograph—Ursula K. Le Guin © by Marian Wood Kolisch also in the LITERARY CONVERSATIONS Series Conversations with Isaac Asimov Edited by Carl Freedman Paper $20.00T, 978-1-57806-738-1 Conversations with Ray Bradbury Edited by Steven L. Aggelis Paper $20.00T, 978-1-57806-641-4 RELATED Anne McCaffrey A Life with Dragons Robin Roberts Cloth $28.00T, 978-1-57806-998-9 “Science fiction and fantasy are not as relentlessly humancentered as realistic fiction. But the story is still about us. We seem to be all we are ultimately interested in.” Call 1-800-737-7788 to order toll-free. University Press of Mississippi 13
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