"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident."1Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Madison: Cricket House Books, 2010), 149. So it seems for Salafia: that the accident...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...the late 1960s he was part of a new generation of conservative political activists. His 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority was a veritable blueprint for GOP politics. Phillips recognized...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Family (Sarabande 2002). She is completing a third book of poetry and her first book of collected fiction. Cover Image Attribution Horton Mill Covered Bridge Over Black Warrior River, February...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...replied "that this was true, since the pictures were based compositionally on the Confederate flag."9John Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide (Cambridge, MA: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976), 11. Eggleston, colorful in...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Troutman, Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012); Barry Mazor, Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Texas Press, 1999) as well as of numerous essays in books such as Faulkner and the Ecology of the South (University Press of Mississippi, 2005), Speak to Me Words: Essays...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...Willow, Deer (2004), Dog Road Woman(1997), and The Year of the Rat (1996). Dog Road Woman won the 1998 American Book Award. She has edited eight additional books and is the senior editor of Platte Valley...
Sowing The Seed Underground
...low-residency creative writing program at Chatham University. She has published poetry and non-fiction books, including Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (1999). Ray lives and works on a family farm in...
Bricking the Church
...and as its doctrine softens puts on a hard shell for weathering this world. Acknowledgments "Bricking the Church" from Robert Morgan's book Groundwork (Gnomon Press, 1979) appears here by permission of...