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Editor's Introduction

Apr 01, 2008; Johnson, Sherita L ... The current issue is a personal and professional reflection of the South as home. As a native of Gainesville, Alabama (just two hours north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi on 1-59), I was raised in a small rural town that still preserves signs of its antebellum past in white and gray marble. Large ...

Learning Their Letters: Critical Literacy, Epistolary Culture, and Slavery in the Antebellum South1

Apr 01, 2008; Schiller, Ben ... Very soon after I went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Auld, she very kindly commenced to teach me the A, B, C. After I had learned this, she assisted me in learning to spell words of three or four letters. Just at this point of my progress, Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade ...

Harriet Jacobs at Home in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Apr 01, 2008; Warner, Anne Bradford ... In critical studies of Harriet Jacobs and her slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), she is often positioned in one of two groups: either she is examined in the body of antebellum slave narratives, almost all of which have male authors, or she is placed in a chronology of ...

"This Life Is a Stage": Performing the South in William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter1

Apr 01, 2008; Schell, Jennifer ... Towards the end of William Wells Brown's novel, Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine (1867), the narrator makes the rather Shakespearean comment that "This life is a stage, and we are indeed all actors."2 Thus, concludes the portion of the novel in which, Clotelle, a beautiful, young biracial woman ...

"In the Sunny South": Reconstructing Frances Harper as Southern

Apr 01, 2008; Johnson, Sherita L ... A woman of words and might, with poetic sensibilities, "enlightened" intelligence, and professional savvy, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper rarely recorded personal reflections of her life and career. She was a popular writer and political activist as well as a devoted wife and mother. Though she ...

The Southern Roots of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Revolutionary Activism

Apr 01, 2008; Watkins, Rychetta N ... We recover what we are culturally and psychologically prepared to recover and what we 'recover' we necessarily rewrite, giving it meanings that are inescapably contemporary, giving it a new discursive life in the present, a life it cannot have had before. - Cary Nelson1 In the midst of ...

"By a Black Woman of the South": Race, Place, and Gender in the Work of Anna Julia Cooper

Apr 01, 2008; May, Vivian M ... Introduction: A Politics of Location Across her life's work as a writer, educator, and activist, early African American feminist Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)' asserted the simultaneous and interlocking nature of her identities as a black female Southerner. Cooper's conception of the ...

William Wells Brown Maps the South in My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People

Apr 01, 2008; Ernest, John ... In the opening paragraph of the first chapter of My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People (1880), William Wells Brown introduces his readers to a "mansion ... surrounded with piazzas, covered with grapevines, clematis, and passion flowers."1 "The Pride of China," he informs us, "mixed its ...

Afterwords; Or, Whistling "Dixie" on the Front Porch of My Southern Home

Apr 01, 2008; Foster, Frances Smith ... This issue of The Southern Quarterly continues a tradition of wellresearched and useful scholarship within its purview. It can, also, stand alone as a unique and valuable contribution to American Studies more generally. Its theme, '"My Southern Home': The Lives and Literature of 19th-Century ...

Imperium In Imperio: Sutton E. Griggs and the New Negro of the South

Apr 01, 2008; Briggs, Gabriel A ... Born in Chatfield, Texas on 19 June 1872, the son of an ex-slave and a mother whose name is unrecorded, Sutton Elbert Griggs attended public school in Dallas, before graduating from Bishop College in Marshall, Texas and Richmond Theological Seminary in Virginia. Following his ordination, Griggs ...

Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Apr 01, 2008; Cowan, Tynes ... Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Arthur Riss. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 238pp. Cloth: $85.00, ISBN 0-521-85674-4.) In his 1854 address, "The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered," Frederick Douglass confronted the ...

Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels

Apr 01, 2008; Duncan, Charles ... Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels. By Ryan Simmons. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 198pp. Cloth: $39.95. ISBN 978-0817315209.) Charles W. Chesnutt and his works have long confounded scholars who seek easy taxonomies of writers and their works. More than sixty ...

The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel

Apr 01, 2008; Harrell, Willie J Jr ... The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel. By Julia C. Collins. Edited by William L. Andrews and Mitch Kachun. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 208pp. Paper: $11.95, ISBN: 978-0195301601.) Because race and gender constraints imposed on ...