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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"Can any positive values," Katie Owens-Murphy queries, "be attributed to Lester Ballard, a voyeur, necrophiliac, and murderer?" (165). Debates over the amount of sympathy Ballard should receive have dominated the...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRecently, southerners have embraced foodways as a way to define what makes them distinctive. This move makes sense. If "the consumption of southern foodways ... might be interpreted as a modern-day expression of one's...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his book Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961, Gary Richards tackles the controversy surrounding the termination of the Southern Renaissance. As Richards explains, authors and scholars...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion. By John Cullen Gruesser. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2012. viii + 159 pp. $22.95 paper. Ebook available. Jim Crow,...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRemembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement. By Minrose Gwin. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2013. 232 pp. $69.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMost of the individual pieces of George Washington Cables short story collections, Old Creole Days (1879) and Strange True Stories of Louisiana (1888), were originally published in Scribner's Monthly and the Century,...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-Creole Authority. By Keith Cartwright. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2013. 328 pp. $79.95 cloth; $24.95 paper. Critical...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWilliam Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker. By Benjamin E. Wise. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2012. x + 3 55 pp. $35 cloth. Ebook available. Sexual Politics in...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWalker Percy's novel Love in the Ruins (1971) reveals the complications of American suburban politics at the height of the Cold War and of the civil rights movement in the United States, a moment during which racial...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn The Southern Plantation: A Study of the Development and the Accuracy of a Tradition (1924), Francis Pendleton Gaines describes an image that remains etched into the American consciousness to this day: To Gaines's...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWorks by southern female writers have often been categorized as "regional," suggesting that their subject matter is limited, circumscribed, "domestic." In her essay "Place in Fiction," Eudora Welty characterizes the...
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From:The Southern Literary Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Urban Dictionary observes that the contraction of "you-all" (y'all) has its roots in the South, with its origin in Scottish-Irish lingua franca but its home on the tongues of African American communities. Y'all...