Recently added articles from Southern Quarterly:
Editor's Introduction
Oct 01, 2008; ... It is a kaleidoscopic South that we offer here, one constantly turning, where, in this historic political season, to quote the quintessential southern political novel, Jack Burden's nightmarish Depression-era dream "that all life is but the dark heave of blood and the twitch of the nerve," may ...
A Vision of Reunion: Kate Chopin's At Fault
Oct 01, 2008; ... At first glance, Kate Chopin's "other novel" At Fault ( 1 890) seems like a simple variation on the kinds of reunion fiction produced after the Civil War: a Northern man and a Southern woman meet, fall in love, and, after overcoming some obstacles, marry, metaphorically reuniting the country ....
"A Good Girl Like Nancy": Willa Cather's Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Oct 01, 2008; ... Willa Cather's last novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), is unsettling for many readers, a southern novel by a prolific western writer and a deceivingly simple "study of manners" that includes rape, illegitimacy, and incest.1 Recently critics Nghana Lewis, Nancy Chinn, and Ann Romines have ...
The Politics of Saving the King's Court: Why We Should Take Elvis Fans Seriously1
Oct 01, 2008; ... In 1995, the Memphis Housing Authority proposed to raze Lauderdale Courts, a downtown housing project, as part of a larger "dedensification" program led by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD 's vision of reforming substandard, crimeridden public housing apartments through ...
Easing a Country's Conscience: Little Rock's Central High School in Film
Oct 01, 2008; ... The most well-known event in Arkansas civil rights movement activism (and arguably the most-well known event in Arkansas history) is the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. In order to prevent federally mandated integration of the school, Governor Orval E. Faubus ordered ...
Reconciliation with Family in Alice Walker's "Kindred Spirits"
Oct 01, 2008; ... One of the most endearing scenes in contemporary southern literature is the homecoming at the end of Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982), showcasing the reunion of Celie with her family - her two children, Adam and Olivia, and her sister, Nettie, who have returned to America from Africa. This ...
Glimpses of Seasons: A Pilgrimage to the Birthplace of Robert Penn Warren
Oct 01, 2008; ... As the traveler nears the Tennessee line southwest of Russellville, the green rolling landscape of tilled fields and cattle pasture that one has been traversing since Bowling Green abruptly flattens out, signaling the crossing of that ancient divide where earthmoving glaciers ground to a ...
Pulling Streaks: Voices from the Turpentine Woods
Oct 01, 2008; ... I'm goin ta Georgy ta work in the turpentine When I got in Georgy, I didn 't have long to stay, I got in debt an hadta run away. I'm goin ta Georgy ta work in the turpentine. When I got in Georgy I begin to fret, The Boss Man tole me I was in ...
Survivors of Katrina: Portraits
Oct 01, 2008; ... In this series I am cataloguing people I never would have met except for these circumstances. For example, Harry is a good ole boy who lives out in the country and shoots guns all the time. Clarence was the only one I actually chose to meet; I met him when I went to get some wood to fix things ....
A Review of the Photography Exhibition "Heroes: First Responders in a Ravaged World"
Oct 01, 2008; ... A Review of the Photography Exhibition "Heroes: First Responders in a Ravaged World" by Lauren Byrd at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi, August 29 through September 11, 2008. Travis Kurowski "We grabbed a lady and pulled her out the window and then we swam with the ...
Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion
Oct 01, 2008; ... Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion. By Eva Sheppard Wolf. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. 284 pp. Cloth: $45.00, ISBN 0-8071-3194-6.) Colonial Virginia's shifting constellation of slavery, race, ...
Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880
Oct 01, 2008; ... Pharsalia: An Environmental Biography of a Southern Plantation, 1780-1880. By Lynn A. Nelson. Environmental History and the American South Series. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. 295pp. Cloth: $39.95, ISBN 978-08203-2627-6.) Pharsalia is the inaugural volume of the ...
Bibliography of the Visual Arts and Architecture, Part XX
Oct 01, 2008; ... GENERAL STUDIES Art Students League. The Art Students League of New York, 2006-2007. New York: Art Students League of New York, 2006. Blitz, John Howard. Moundville. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2008. Bonner, Judith H. "Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud ...
From Uncle Tom to Gansta: Black Masculinity in the U.S. South
Oct 01, 2008; ... From Uncle Tom to Gansta: Black Masculinity in the U.S. South. By Riché Richardson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007. 296 pp. Paper: $22.95, ISBN 0-8203-2890-1.) BIRTH OF A NATION. THE KLANSMAN. O.J. SIMPSON. INVISIBLE MAN. MASTER P ... Heeding the cultural studies call to ...
Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Ann Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
Oct 01, 2008; ... Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Ann Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy. By Gary M. Ciuba. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. 296 pp. Cloth $47.50, ISBN 0-8071-3 175-X.) Gary M. Ciuba's study Desire, Violence, ...
A Wallet, a White Woman, and a Whistle: Fact and Fiction in Emmett Till's Encounter in Money, Mississippi
Jul 01, 2008; ... Tragic events followed the arrival of Emmett "Bobo" Till at the Bryant Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Mississippi on 24 August 1955. Four days later, Till, a fourteen year-old African American youth from Chicago, was kidnapped and murdered because he allegedly whistled at, or otherwise ...
The Legacy of Emmett Till
Jul 01, 2008; ... Emmett Till is one of the central figures on the stage of American racial trauma. Along with countless lynched black men who came before him - and Medgar Evers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who came after him - Till has symbolized the ...
Sacred Vision and Dramatic Space: Voices, Time, and History in The Face of Emmett Till
Jul 01, 2008; ... No one worked more zealously to tell the story of Emmett Till than did his mother, Mamie Bradley Till-Mobley (1921-2003). An extraordinary woman of faith and courage, she brought her son out of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi in September 1955 and into the agonized conscience of the world where ...
A Guided Tour through Hell: A Photographic Essay of Emmett Till's Mississippi Delta
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Mississippi Delta is an alluvial, leaf-shaped flatland where history surfaces and screams everywhere. In this fertile land of cotton, corn, and blues, the Tallahatchie River (Figure 1) flows with eerie significance in American history. It passes through the places stained in infamy for the ...
Preserving "that Racial Memory": Figurative Language, Sonnet Sequence, and the Work of Remembrance in Marilyn Nelson's A Wreath for Emmett Till
Jul 01, 2008; ... Asked a few years ago to conceive of a book that would address the subject of lynching, Marilyn Nelson recalls, "I knew that I would write about Emmett Till. [At 14] he was lynched when he was the age of the young people who might read my poem. After revisiting what I knew about lynching, ...