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TIM A. RYAN is associate professor of English at Northern Illinois University and the author of Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since ""Gone with the Wind.""
During the 1920s and 1930s, Mississippi produced two of the most significant influences upon twentieth-century culture: the modernist fiction of William Faulkner and the recorded blues songs of African American musicians like Charley Patton, Geeshie Wiley, and Robert Johnson. In…