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Forthcoming in Southern Cultures 11.1 (Spring 2005)
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
“Southern identity is a moving target.
Its meaning keeps changing and so do those who claim it.”
Essays
- Southerners All?
by Larry J. Griffin, Ranae J. Evenson, and Ashley B. Thompson
“Exactly who is a southerner, exactly who wishes to be a southerner,
and who is thought to have the right to claim southern identity are
now highly uncertain.”
- South to Death
by Earl Higgins
“Those who are given the power by law to exercise mercy become
too intoxicated, overwhelmed by the power to end life; they can no longer
grant the mercy advocated by the scriptural teachings they purport to
follow. Matthew 5:7, for example, instructs, ‘Blessed are the
merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.’”
- Playing Rebels
Defending the Confederacy in the Reenactment of the Battle of Aiken
by James O. Farmer
“South Carolina cannot boast a Civil War reenactment on the
scale of those held at Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, or other
famous battle sites, yet since the mid-1990s it has played host to one
of growing size and reputation.”
Photo Essay
- Rebels in the Wake of 9-11
Homecoming Weekend in Oxford, Mississippi, October 2001
by Katy Vinroot O’Brien
“The usual terrain of southern homecoming celebrations—cheerleaders
rah-rahhing, smartly-clad members of the homecoming court soaking up
the crowd, mothers and babies at parade’s edge, hastily-built
fraternity floats—contrast with markers of heightened national
pride and sudden, uncomfortable transformation.”
Mason-Dixon Lines
- “Bartram’s Trail” and “Pawley’s Island
Shakedown”
two poems by Thorpe Moeckel
“There’s no horizon,
no line on the Atlantic…”
Not Forgotten
- A Valentine for Miss Welty
by Ann Taylor Peden
“Thank you, heart lady.”
Books
- Keith Perry
The Kingfish in Fiction
reviewed by Bryan Giemza
“In the Senate Chamber there is a bizarre reminder of a failed
assassination attempt—a bomb in a desk—that sent a pencil
rocketing into the ceiling. There it remains, stuck in a tile, a spotlight
vigilantly trained upon it. ”
- Michael B. Montgomery and Joseph S. Hall
Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English
reviewed by Michael Chitwood
“I remembered my maternal grandmother saying of a man she
did not care for, ‘Oh, he’s always got a plug of tobacco
in this mouth and that ambeer running down to his chin.’”
- Louis M. Kyriakoudes
The Social Origins of the Urban South
reviewed by Tom Hanchett
“Thank you to Louis Kyriakoudes’s Social Origins of
the Urban South for showing the social history behind the songs.”
- Robert A. Caro
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3
reviewed by John Quinterno
“Lyndon Johnson combined talent, ambition, and genius into
a form of power capable of taming the Senate, that most unruly and aristocratic
of America’s political institutions.”
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