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Southern Cultures
5.4 (Winter 1999)
Southern Cultures
5.3 (Fall 1999)
Southern Cultures
5.2 (Summer 1999)
Southern Cultures
5.1 (Spring 1999)
Southern Cultures
5.4 (Winter 1999)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
Killers Real and Imagined
by Doris Betts
Real-life tragedy is the genesis for lasting art when the murder of
Medgar Evers sparks the muse of Eudora Welty.
Every Man Has Got the Right To Get Killed? The Civil War Narratives of
Mary Johnston and Caroline Gordon
by Sarah E. Gardner
The vivid--and graphic--novels of two women authors usher in new views
of the War and redefine a genre.
Rednecks, White Socks, and Pina Coladas? Country Music Ain’t What
it Used to Be . . . And It Really Never Was
by James C. Cobb
Does old Hank really spin in his grave each time Garth Brooks launches
a new mega-tour?
The Plantation Tradition in an Urban Setting: The Case of the Aiken-Rhett
House in Charleston, South Carolina
by John Michael Vlach
Rural architecture in a city environment imbues function and form
with distinct meaning.
Books
Mojo Productions, in association with Company Carolina and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Communication Studies
Good Ol’ Girls, the world premiere
reviewed by Shannon Ravenel
“She’ll bring you casseroles and she’ll kill you,
too.”
Richard J. Powell and Jock Reynolds
To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges
and Universities
Patti Carr Black's
Art in Mississippi: 1720-1980
reviewed by Dale Volberg Reed
“The art of the South has, until recently, been terra incognita.”
Nancy C. Parrish's
Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: A Genesis of Writers
reviewed by Amy Thompson McCandless
“It was like falling into a womb.”
Jane S. Becker's
Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American
Folk, 1930-1940
reviewed by Marla R. Miller
“We like the money we make, that’s all.”
Bryant Simon's
A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands
reviewed by Alex Lichtenstein
“It will no longer be possible to write off this group of white
southerners as mere ignorant racists.”
John M. Grammer's
Pastoral and Politics in the Old South
reviewed by Mark G. Malvasi
“They were wise innocents dwelling in an enduring, earthly paradise.”
Bruce Adelson's
Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in
the American South
reviewed by Steven F. Lawson
“They saw themselves as heirs to Jackie Robinson’s legacy.”
Music Recordings reviewed by Gavin James Campbell
Music from the lost provinces; Big Joe Williams and friends; stringbands,
songsters and hoedowns; cowboy songs, ballads, and cattle calls.
South Polls The Central Theme
by John Shelton Reed
The old cardinal test of a southerner was a commitment to white supremacy.
Plus: a special update on the use of “black” versus “African
American.”
Southern Cultures
5.3 (Fall 1999)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
A Love Letter to Thomas Wolfe
by Pat Conroy
The author of The Great Santini reveals a long admiration for the
author of Look Homeward, Angel.
Goat Cart Sam, a.k.a. Porgy, an Icon of a Sanitized South
by Kendra Hamilton
Art, intellectual property, or both? The legacy of DuBose Heyward’s
most famous character.
Sister Act: Sorority Rush as Feminine Performance
by Beth Boyd
The significance of singing, playacting, schmoozing, and reputation-management.
Books
Jerry W. Cotten's
Light and Air: The Photography of Bayard Wootten
reviewed by Jessie Poesch
Art Rosenbaum's
Shout Because You’re Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition
reviewed by Dale Volberg Reed
Frank De Caro, editor
Louisiana Sojourns: Travelers’ Tales and Literary Journeys
reviewed by Gaines M. Foster
William E. Ellis's
Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique
reviewed by Walter E. Campbell
John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin, editors
My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
reviewed by Jimmie Lewis Franklin
Sheila L. Croucher's
Imagining Miami: Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World
reviewed by Raymond Arsenault
Tom Rankin, editor
Faulkner’s World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain
reviewed by Christopher Brookhouse
Music Recordings reviewed by Gavin James Campbell
South Polls What’s in a Name?
by John Shelton Reed
Not Forgotten Grave Matters
by Elizabeth Robeson
Zora Neale Hurston’s correspondence with W. E. B. Du Bois in
1929 reveals her concern about how prominent African Americans of their
era were honored after death.
“How the negros [sic] became McCaslins too…”: A New
Faulkner Letter
by Noel Polk
William Faulkner, the architect of Go Down, Moses, flirts with his
good friend’s wife in a nearly-lost letter and drops a few clues
left out of the book’s famous ledgers.
Southern Cultures
5.2 (Summer 1999)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Essays
“We were the Snopeses”: A Writer and Her Piedmont
by Doris Betts
An unexpected kinship with Flannery O’Connor and an exploration
of what it means to be a “piedmonter.”
The Souths of Sterling A. Brown
by Elizabeth Davey
One author’s attempts to dispense with the Negro and to reveal
a fuller African American experience.
A Piece of Your Own: The Tenant Purchase Program in Claiborne County
by David Crosby, with Photographs by Roland L. Freeman
A newspaper account, an interview, and some historical context for
a murder near Martin, Mississippi.
Reimagining the North-South Reunion: Southern Women Novelists and the
Intersectional Romance, 1876-1900
by Jane Turner Censer
Affairs of the heart reunite North and South.
Books
Tom Wolfe's
A Man in Full
reviewed by John Shelton Reed
The Museum of the New South
Don’t Touch That Dial: Carolina Radio Since the 1920s
reviewed by Lisa Yarger
Julia Sims, with an introduction by John Randolf Kemp
Manchac Swamp: Louisiana’s Undiscovered Wilderness
reviewed by Bland Simpson
Clarice T. Cambpell's
Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South
reviewed by Melton McLaurin
Sheila L. Croucher's
Imagining Miami: Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World
reviewed by Raymond Arsenault
John M. Grammer's
Pastoral Politics in the Old South
reviewed by Mark G. Malvasi
Dennis C. Rousey's
Policing the Southern City: New Orleans
reviewed by Layland Wayne Jordan
Laura F. Edwards's
Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
reviewed by Christopher Waldrep
John C. Guilds and Caroline Collins, editors
William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier
Charles S. Watson's
From Nationalism to Secessionism: The Changing Fiction of William
Gilmore Simmsreviewed by Michael O’Brien
Music Recordings reviewed by Gavin James Campbell
South Polls Where is the South?
by John Shelton Reed
Southern Cultures
5.1 (Spring 1999)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Coming to Terms with Scarlett: a Southern Culture’s Forum
Clutching the Chains that Bind: Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the Wind
by Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Faust has some things to say about Scarlett O’Hara, the
South’s favorite bad belle. Three other scholars of southern women’s
literature and history talk back.
Race and the Cloud of Unknowing in Gone with the Wind
by Patricia Yaeger
“I Was Tellin It”: Race, Gender, and the Puzzle of the Storyteller
by Anne Goodwyn Jones
“The Prong of Love”
by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Photo Essay King of the One-String
by Fetzer Mills Jr., with photographs by Tom Rankin
Author and photographer team up to show and tell just what a diddley-bow
can do.
Review Essay We’ve Got to Get Out of This Place:
Tony Horwitz Tours the Civil War South
by Grace Elizabeth Hale
Is it heritage, not hate? A review of Tony Horwitz’s Confederates
in the Attic probes the many meanings of Civil War nostalgia.
Books
Philip J. Schwarz's
Slave Laws in Virginia
reviewed by Thomas D. Morris
Edward D. C. Cambell Jr. and Kym S. Rice, editors
A Woman’s War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate
Legacy
reviewed by LeeAnn Whites
W. Fitzhugh Brundage's
A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee
and Georgia, 1894-1901
reviewed by Christopher H. Owen
Tracy Elaine K’Meyer's
Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story
of Koinonia Farm
reviewed by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Elna C. Green's
Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question
reviewed by Pamela Tyler
Tommy L. Bogger's
Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860: The Darker Side of Freedom
reviewed by Robert C. Kenzer
Xi Wang's
The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910
reviewed by John David Smith
Mark A. Fossett and M. Therese Seibert's
Long Time Coming: Racial Inequality in the Nonmetropolitan South,
1940-1990
reviewed by Robert A. Margo
James Axtell's
The Indians’ New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast
reviewed by Tim Alan Garrison
Tenth Conference on Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscapes
The Influence of Women on the Southern Landscape
reviewed by Rachel V. Mills
Ray Jenkins's
Blind Vengeance: The Roy Moody Mail Bomb Murders
Byron Woodfin's
Lay Down with Dogs: The Story of Hugh Otis Bynum and the Scottsboro
First Monday Bombing
reviewed by Larry J. Griffin
Thomas E. Douglass's
A Room Forever: The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D’J Pancake
reviewed by Ruel Foster
Kenny Dalsheimer's
Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway
reviewed by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Music Recordings reviewed by Gavin James Campbell
South Polls Living and Dying in Dixie
by John Shelton Reed
Up Beat Down South “Hot Music on the Half-Shell
for Two”: Anton Rubinstein’s Southern Fan
by Gavin James Campbell
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