Genres of Southern Literature
...1830s, northern writers and readers were busily creating assumptions about the South’s difference, and writers and readers of the South correspondingly defined themselves against the place (the North) or the...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...rural Louisiana," as well as the writer's talent for writing about machines: "Here is a writer who can make the refitting of an engine as compelling as another author's love...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...was writing fiction whenever I could. That usually meant during breaks between quarters. While I was writing so much intellect-driven scholarly work, the pressure to write intuitive fiction would build,...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Cave [New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1851]) writes that "Far over head deep gloom doth sit, / And Nature is asleep" (11–12). Mammoth Cave appears in the work of two of...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...it must be against the deacon’s foot. Jimmie Carole Fife, Pufketa - "The Horn." When the congregation is called into church for services, a horn is always used. The one...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...reviews, researching primary materials, emailing writers and archives, finding supportive media, researching historical information, gaining copyrights, and formatting the text for an online, born-digital piece. Abbott: I became managing editor...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Introduction U.S. Public Health Service Advertisements, ca. 1905. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/hec.20772/. In the winter of 1936, Minnie...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...stores, and residences. Once a place obtained postal service, its citizens were equally determined not to lose it or see it curtailed. When one small town had its mail service...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He continues writing about the life and work of Woody Guthrie and has two essays on Guthrie awaiting publication: "Talkin' World Revolution:...
Writing Appalachia
...ed., Coal: A Poetry Anthology (2006); and Anthology of Appalachian Writers (a journal-like, serial publication of contemporary Appalachian writing published by Shepherd University). Poet and scholar Jim Wayne Miller, ca....