The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...southwestern humorist tradition of Samuel Clemens and company" (22). Terrel Dixon also notes that Guthrie's dialect is "reminiscent of such early Southwestern humorists as [Thomas Bangs] Thorpe and Augustus Baldwin...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...describe how crimes are prosecuted on reservations. And it involves a complicated narrative about how Oklahoma tribal jurisdiction has a unique status in relationship to other Indian reservations across the...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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Genres of Southern Literature
...of culture. The claim to order that is presented here highlights selected genres indelibly associated with the South: the plantation novel, the slave narrative, southwestern humor, southern pastoral and "counter-pastoral,"...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...important in Atlanta and other metropolitan areas as white flight to suburban counties increased—illuminating another highly effective option for preserving the "freedom of white people to choose not to go...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...African Americans, such as southwest Atlanta.10For a rich discussion of the development and growth of these neighborhoods on the western, southwestern, and southern edges of the city of Atlanta from...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Acadian folk songs."12Lauren C. Post, Cajun Sketches: From the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974), 159. The Cajun performances Post helped stage at the festival...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Map Collection, University of Texas. While many people associate the southwest Louisiana home of the Cajuns with swamplands, its environment also consists of marshes, prairies, and wooded river areas. The...