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November 2016 Vol. 54 No. 3

Author of numerous books on American literature, Millichap (emer., Western Kentucky Univ.) here makes an important addition to the literature on a growing field of academic study: intertextuality. Throughout, the author acknowledges the work of others. His first chapter takes off from the thinking of Susan Sontag (On Photography, CH, Sep'78) and Roland Barthes (Camera Lucida, 1980), and he proceeds to analyze and interpret the interface between photography and literature of the South, highlighting the essential work of the 1930s and of Walker Evens and James Agee. Millichap concentrates on a few authors—William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, and Natasha Trethewey—demonstrating how the art of each is enhanced by the author's shared interest in language and photography. In contrast to other books that consider photographic images and literature—for example, such well-recognized volumes as Photography and Literature in the Twentieth Century, ed. by David Cunningham, Andrew Fisher, and Sas Mays (2005), and François Brunet's Photography and Literature (2009)—this one has no illustrations. However, the author provides necessary information on how to locate works relevant to the literature discussed.

--B. Wallenstein, CUNY City College

Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.