Early Roller Coaster Patents
...roller coaster" is remarkably similar to the titles of both patents." - Victor Canfield. 2001. "U.S. Rollercoaster History From Patents" from http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/v/a/vac3/history.html) A. Wood, Circular Gravity Railway (U.S. Patent...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...a Multiethnic Neighborhood by Sarah Mayorga-Gallo. Copyright © 2014 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu. According to Mayorga-Gallo, Creekridge Park's local neighborhood...
Remnants of Flannery
...Rare Books Library, "Flannery should be seen as whole as could be made possible."20Richard Fausset, "Emory Receives Archive of Work by O’Connor," The New York Times, October 7, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/books/university-acquires-flannery-oconnors-papers-and-effects.html?_r=0....
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...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
Review Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism opens with an arresting photographic image: nineteenth-century local colorist Mary Noailles Murfree, author of In the Tennessee Mountains, a collection of purportedly "authentic" sketches, sits...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Museum, was eleven years old when she and her fourteen-year-old sister Linda participated in the Bloody Sunday events. See "Joanne Bland," Baylor Magazine 2, no. 2 (September–October 2003), http://www.baylor.edu/alumni/magazine/0202/news.php?action=story&story=7585. Taking...
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...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
Introduction: Theorists in Dialogue about Native American Literature, Hybridity, and Tribal Sovereignty Craig Womack: Each of the participants who joined me in the Emory discussion on April 22, 2011—Lisa Brooks,...
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...