TENNESSEE WILLIAMS ANNUAL REVIEW 2019

The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2019Publisher: The Historic New Orleans Collectionsoftcover • 6" x 9" • 114 pp. • 4 color images ISSN 1097-6035ISBN 978-0-917860-77-5The personal diaries of Edwina Dakin Williams, Tennessee Williams’s strong-willed and long-suffering mother, open the 2019 issue of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review. Housed in THNOC’s Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection and published together in full for the first time, Edwina’s entries offer a powerful view of young Tom Williams’s tumultuous, sometimes violent childhood. The scholar John S. Bak’s in-depth introduction and notes provide crucial context as readers immerse themselves in the raw material that Williams would eventually transform into The Glass Menagerie’s unforgettable Amanda Wingfield. Inside the issue, Julie Vatain-Corfdir sheds new light on the shocking production of Jean Cocteau’s French adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, Michael S. D. Hooper explores homoeroticism in Williams’s paintin