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Abstract: As The Southern Quarterly continues to catch up to its regular publication schedule, so too does the pandemic continue: just before the beginning of the fall 2021 semester, we are anxiously watching as universities around the country issue mask mandates and vaccination recommendations. Few people can still claim not to know anyone who has fallen ill with Covid-19, and the numbers of infected are skyrocketing with the advent of the delta variant, particularly across the US South. Many governors of Southern states seem to bolster the standpoint of the vaccine-hesitant (both Arkansas and Texas have mandated no-mask policies), though others, like John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, are proactively re-instituting statewide ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Southern Gothic as a literary genre features strange or frightening events that take place in mysterious places. These conventions date back to early European gothic literature, and can be identified in well-known texts such as Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1768) and Matthew Lewis’s The Monk (1796), both of which feature virginal young women who are terrorized by the psychological manipulation of a villain and saved by a brave hero. Most critics agree that what differentiates Southern Gothic literature from other genres of the literary gothic is the way that it “evinces a particular focus on the South’s history of slavery, a fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: James Hannaham deftly weaves folk culture into his 2015 novel Delicious Foods. In it there are bluesmen and Obeah, superstition and legends, birds of death and birds of life, all included as part of the world of the young protagonist Eddie and his troubled mother, Darlene. But Hannaham does not incorporate folklore into the novel only to add depth to the narrative. He also explicitly engages folklore in Delicious Foods to reveal both systemic racial oppressions and individual strategies of survival and resistance. In doing so, he complicates our notions of Southern place and space and interrogates capitalist America’s always-present ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces recounts Ignatius J. Reilly’s riotous exploits in New Orleans, which center around two so-called “crusades” to rescue humanity from its modern-day ills. The first involves an insurrection of the underpaid Black employees of Levy Pants; the second entails a conspiracy to infiltrate the government with gay White men. Both quickly collapse into comic disarray. Complementing these twin threads of his narrative, Toole also addresses the pervasive discrimination faced by Black and gay people in the novel’s mid-twentieth-century Southern setting, while simultaneously framing the gross mistreatment of vast swaths of humanity as part of his carnivalesque humor. More so, in the ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The September 2018 issue of British music magazine Mojo included a lengthy feature about “outlaw country singer” Blaze Foley. Writer Will Hodgkinson traced Foley’s fraught upbringing in rural Arkansas; his young adult years living in a treehouse in the Georgia woods; and his hellraising decade as Austin’s “drunken cowboy poet” until his violent death in 1989. Hodgkinson concluded that Foley and his friend Townes van Zandt embodied “a rich vein of Southern bohemianism that Ethan Hawke felt was worth celebrating” in the feature film Blaze.Mojo’s (and Hawke’s) take on Foley’s “Southern bohemianism” chimes with a number of the case studies offered by the sixteen contributors to Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Early in The Saddest Words, Michael Gorra acknowledges that his book is just as much an account of the Civil War as it is an examination of the work of William Faulkner. With its detailed retellings of famous Civil War battles and examination of life in the South during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow years, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War is just as concerned with the historical background of Faulkner’s novels as it is with the content of the novels themselves. The title of the book is taken from Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury, where the main characters muse that the two saddest words in the English language are was (indicating something is fixed in the past forever) and again (a replayed ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris, released by Dust to Digital in 2018, won the 2019 Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes and for Best Historical Album. This award recognizes William Ferris’s invaluable contribution as a nationally known documentarian of the South in many exceptional roles he has played in Southern Studies.The box cover is a photograph of Son Thomas, a blues musician, with a display of his clay head sculptures, but as soon as the box opens, the cover photograph of the book draws immediate attention: a one-string instrument fixed to the wall being fingerpicked. This is a kind of guitar made by Louis Dotson, a farmer musician from Lorman, Mississippi. The ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Gilbert Allen’s most recent books are Believing in Two Bodies (a collection of poems) and The Beasts of Belladonna (a collection of linked stories). He has lived in upstate South Carolina since 1977, and he was elected to the South Carolina Academy of Authors , the state’s literary hall of fame, in 2014.Martyn Bone is associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales (2018) and The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction (2005); the editor of Perspectives on Barry Hannah (2007); and coeditor of the mini-series Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South (2013), The American ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00
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