Recently added articles from Southern Cultures:
Front porch.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008; Watson, Harry ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bloated corpses bobbing in the streets. Entire communities scoured down to the sand, scarcely one brick atop another. The Superdome and Convention Center, proud monuments of urban ambition, bursting with human misery. Police taking aim at desperate ...
Always the tragic Jezebel: New Orleans, Katrina, and the layered discourse of a doomed southern city.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Bibler, Michael P. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Consider the following narrative: Just before the disaster hit New Orleans, authorities urged every able citizen to leave at once. Those with means fled to safer ground outside the city, while the recalcitrant and the poor stayed behind. Then, almost ...
Storm journal: the story of the Bay Town Inn.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Anderson, Ellis ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Editor's Note: Positioned just east of the eye of the storm, Bay St. Louis and Waveland, Mississippi, suffered the brunt of Katrina's wrath. Winds of above 130 miles per hour drove thirty-five-foot tidal waves (a world record) ashore, pounding the Gulf ...
What was found.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Fitzgerald, Maura ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Leaving aside what was lost, for the moment, here is what was found: In the top drawer of the dresser in Ms. Maddie's bedroom: a cardboard box filled with baby teeth tucked into tissue-lined compartments. In two inches of caked oil covering her ...
Home at the mouth of the Mississippi.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Howard, Judith A. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Create a place and there will always be people who figure out how to live there. So it was with Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, only one-third of which is dry land (and most of that only barely so). This hundred-mile long peninsula, bisected by the ...
Broken levees, broken lives, and a broken nation after Hurricane Katrina.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; O'Neill, Karen M. ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many people viewed the extreme disorder after Hurricane Katrina as the failure of a comprehensive system of public works and emergency preparedness they assumed was designed to ensure safety and security. No such system exists. The national flood control ...
Through a purple (green and gold) haze: New Orleans Mardi Gras in the American imagination.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Stanonis, Anthony J. ... Long before I visited New Orleans I would visit it in my imagination.--Tom Piazza, Why New Orleans Matters (2005) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There was not much color in Aggieland--at least not other than the maroon proudly flaunted by students at Texas A&M University. A ...
Is for, to Hold.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2008; Hicok, Bob ... <Pre> Mason-Dixon Lines Is for, to Hold I didn't tell the water it was a pitchfork.I believe the water believed it was a tridenton account of the family resemblance.The road had disappeared, the field,the sundial was about to go under, meaning shadows...
Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; Richardson, Rachel ... Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita Edited by Philip C. Kolin and Susan Swartwout Southern Missouri State University Press, 2006 181 pp. Paper $17.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ... Just say someone will hear us. ...