Summer ‘99
VOLUME 5: NUMBER 2
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
"We were the Snopeses": A Writer and Her Piedmont
by Doris Betts
An unexpected kinship with Flannery O'Connor and an exploration of what it means to be a "piedmonter."
The Souths of Sterling A. Brown
by Elizabeth Davey
Revealing a fuller African American experience.
A Piece of Your Own: The Tenant Purchase Program in Claiborne County
by David Crosby, with Photographs by Roland L. Freeman
A newspaper account, an interview, and some historical context for a murder near Martin, Mississippi.
Reimagining the North-South Reunion: Southern Women Novelists and the Intersectional Romance, 1876-1900
by Jane Turner Censer
Affairs of the heart reunite North and South.
Where is the South?
by John Shelton Reed
Tom Wolfe's
A Man in Full
reviewed by John Shelton Reed
The Museum of the New South
Don't Touch That Dial: Carolina Radio Since the 1920s
reviewed by Lisa Yarger
Julia Sims, with an introduction by John Randolf Kemp
Manchac Swamp: Louisiana's Undiscovered Wilderness
reviewed by Bland Simpson
Clarice T. Campbell's
Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South
reviewed by Melton McLaurin
Laura F. Edwards's
Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
reviewed by Christopher Waldrep
John C. Guilds and Caroline Collins, editors
William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier, and: From Nationalism to Secessionism: The Changing Fiction of William Gilmore Simms
reviewed by Michael O'Brien
Chuck Guillory, Grand Texas, and: Wade Frugé, Old Style Cajun Music
Dock Boggs, His Folkways Years, 1963-1968
I Can't Be Satisfied: Early American Women Blues Singers—Town & Country (vols. 1 and 2)
Bob Holt, Got a Little Home To Go To
reviewed by Gavin James Campbell