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Article: The function of women in Old Southwestern humor: re-reading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' collections. (William T. Porter)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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Old Soutwestern Humor flourished from approximately 1830 to 1860 in local papers such as the La Fayette East Alabamian, in widely read regional publications such as the New Orleans Picayune, and in that national clearinghouse for frontier writers, the New York Spirit of the Times. The numerous sketches of backwoods life were primarily contributed by professional men who enjoyed adopting the title of "Correspondent" to record the manners, morals, and odd customs of the inhabitants of the Old Southwest -- Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, and editors translated into print the ...