Crossroads 2005Ted Olson Mercer University Press, 2005 - 506 pages This first volume of "CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual picks up where its predecessor, the acclaimed biannual periodical "CrossRoads: A Journal of Southern Culture, left off when the latter ceased publication in the mid-1990s. Formerly edited by several graduate students affiliated with the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture (primarily by current editor Ted Olson), "Cross Roads: A Southern Culture Annual will continue its original mission: to provide a forum for diverse perspectives on the South and on Southern culture through combining compelling new fiction and poetry from well-known as well as emerging Southern authors, with eloquent articles, memoirs, oral histories, and photo essays that interpret and celebrate relevant manifestations of the Southern cultural experience. "CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual will deepen readers' awareness of and connection to the South. |
Table des matières
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Leaf by Leaf | 19 |
Growing Old in the Maize | 29 |
Country Church | 31 |
Peters Shadow | 31 |
Faiths Place | 31 |
Crossing Over to Egypt | 31 |
The Death That Never Occurred | 31 |
Reenactors | 31 |
PseudoSouthern | 31 |
Southern Literature and Downward Mobility | 31 |
The Comic Strip Pogo and Southern Culture | 31 |
A Historiographical Gallimaufry | 31 |
Religion and Respectability in the Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Willie Johnson | 31 |
American Politics | 31 |
The Old School 1937 | 31 |
The Legacy of Birminghams Civil Rights Movement | 31 |
Finding Wang Wei in Knoxville Tennessee | 31 |
The Phantoms of the Opry | 31 |
Dosies Tattoo | 31 |
The Roadside Vegetable Stand | 31 |
Poem of Farmerville Louisiana | 31 |
The Flora Fauna Portfolio from Southern Places | 31 |
St Charles Avenue Afternoon | 31 |
Camille | 31 |
The Americanization of Cajun Music 19281950 | 31 |
Portraits in Black and White | 33 |
Why is One of the Best Comic Novels Between The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and As I Lay Dying Out of Print? | 69 |
Topography Inhabitation and Ecology in the Novels of Hubert Skidmore | 69 |
A Defense of Alex Haleys Roots | 77 |
Letters from Donald Davidson | 81 |
Andrew Lytle Remembered | |
End Time | |
On Checking Out | |
One Moment Remembered | |
All Other Ground | |
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CONTRIBUTORS | |
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African American Alex Haley Alice ANDREW LYTLE Birmingham Blind Willie Johnson Buck Cajun Music Cherokee Choates church City Civil Confederate Corra Harris creek CROSSROADS dark daughter David dirt Donald Davidson Dorsey Dosie Dosie's essays eyes Faith's farm father feel fiction Georgia Gospel Blues GRAND TEXAS Hackberry Ramblers Haley Haley's hand Harris's Harry Choates Hawk's Nest Hill Ibid knew Kunta Kinte land Lavinia LETTERS FROM DONALD lives look Lost Cause Louisiana Lytle memory mountain MYTH OF SOUTHERN Nashville never night North Carolina novel Opry play poem Pogo race ramps Recording Angel Reverend Gary Davis Review River road Roots Skidmore Skidmore's slave social song South Southern Culture Southern History Southern white SOUTHERN WOMANHOOD Southern women stories string band Tennessee tion tobacco traditional trailer tree University Press Virginia walked Walt Kelly western swing woman writing York
Fréquemment cités
Page 13 - Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents take place.