Remnants of Flannery
...on the Instagram feeds of some friends of mine who visited Andalusia and the Central State mental hospital recently, and the parallel, vicarious visit I had in my head as...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...on our submissions guidelines page (http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/guidelines.htm). Please submit original manuscripts to the following address: Managing Editor The Southern Quarterly The University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive #5078 Hattiesburg, MS...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...argues that the Poro-Sande societies of present-day Sierra Leone and Liberia were adapted to and fused with the Gullah Christian practice of "seekin" to create adult initiation rites. The prevalence...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...floats, barely visible through the early spring fog, advanced noisily down the seawall. Our targets—a consideration of oyster appellations and a revaluing of fish previously dismissed as trash—intermittently floated up...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Charles Egbert Craddock (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941), 127. What made southern local color writing exceptional wasn't its "mind" or any particular historical "burden," but instead its...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...lent a gracious moment of local color to the candidate's "Forgotten Places" tour. Quilter Mary Lee Bendolph, aged seventy-two, told a reporter that McCain had "touched her heart" by visiting...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
Review In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, clubs in Houston, Dallas, and many other centers of New Orleanian displacement hosted "New Orleans" nights, featuring rap music from the Crescent City....
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...compassion? I wasn’t as sure. I had made arguments, maybe even convincing ones. But had I learned anything about listening? Had I sometimes closed down communication instead of opening it...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...