Fall ‘99
VOLUME 5: NUMBER 3
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
A Love Letter to Thomas Wolfe
by Pat Conroy
The author of The Great Santini reveals a long admiration for the author of Look Homeward, Angel.
Grave Matters
by Elizabeth Robeson
Zora Neale Hurston's correspondence with W. E. B. Du Bois in 1929 reveals her concern about how prominent African Americans of their era were honored after death.
"How the negros [sic] became McCaslins too...": A New Faulkner Letter
by Noel Polk
William Faulkner, the architect of Go Down, Moses, flirts with his good friend's wife in a nearly-lost letter and drops a few clues left out of the book's famous ledgers.
Goat Cart Sam, a.k.a. Porgy, an Icon of a Sanitized South
by Kendra Hamilton
Art, intellectual property, or both? The legacy of DuBose Heyward's most famous character.
Sister Act: Sorority Rush as Feminine Performance
by Beth Boyd
The significance of singing, playacting, schmoozing, and reputation-management.
What's in a Name?
by John Shelton Reed
Jerry W. Cotten's
Light and Air: The Photography of Bayard Wootten
reviewed by Jessie Poesch
Art Rosenbaum's
Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition
reviewed by Dale Volberg Reed
Frank De Caro, editor
Louisiana Sojourns: Travelers' Tales and Literary Journeys
reviewed by Gaines M. Foster
William E. Ellis's
Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern Mystique
reviewed by Walter E. Campbell
John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin, editors
My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
reviewed by Jimmie Lewis Franklin
Sheila L. Croucher's
Imagining Miami: Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World
reviewed by Raymond Arsenault
Tom Rankin, editor
Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain
reviewed by Christopher Brookhouse
Kentucky Old-Time Banjo, and: Morgan Sexton, Shady Grove
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, The Original Band, and: G.B. Grayson and Henry Witter, The Recordings of Grayson & Witter
Boozoo Chavis and the Magic Sounds, Who Stole My Monkey?
Caribbean Sampler
Lydia Mendoza, Vida Mia
reviewed by Gavin James Campbell