Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary ApproachJohn Lowe A panorama of past and contemporary southern society are captured in Bridging Southern Cultures by some of the South's leading historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists. Crossing the chasms of demographics, academic disciplines, art forms, and culture, this exciting collection reaches aspects of southern heritage that previous approaches have long obscured. Virtually every dimension of southern identity receives attention here. William Andrews,Thadious Davis, Sue Bridwell Beckham, Richard Megraw, and Joyce Marie Jackson offer engaging reflections on art, age, race, and gender. Bertram Wyatt-Brown delivers a startling reading of Faulkner, revealing the tangled history of southern modernism. Daniel C. Littlefield, Henry Shapiro, and Charles Reagan Wilson provide important assessments of Africanisms in southern culture, Appalachian studies, and the blessing and burden of southern culture. John Shelton Reed probes the humorous and awkward aspects of the South's midlife crisis. John Lowe shows how the myth of the biracial southern family complicated plantation-school narratives for both white and black writers. Showcasing the thought of preeminent southern intellectuals, Bridging Southern Cultures is a timely assessment of the state of contemporary southern studies. |
Contents
The Study of Region | 29 |
Reclaiming the South | 57 |
Carson Davenport design for Chatham Virginia | 101 |
Carson Davenport final mural for Chatham Virginia | 105 |
Carl Nyquist final mural for Bolivar Tennessee | 107 |
Arthur Covey final mural for Anderson South Carolina | 108 |
Chester Tingler final mural for Sylvester Georgia | 111 |
Louis Raynaud cartoon for Bay St Louis Mississippi | 113 |
Sheffield Kagy final mural for Walterboro South Carolina | 123 |
Julien Binford final mural for Forest Mississippi | 125 |
Joseph Pistey Jr final mural for Haynesville Louisiana | 127 |
Ethel Magafan final mural for Wynne Arkansas | 128 |
Hollis Holbrook color sketch for Jeanerette Louisiana | 129 |
Robert Purdy mural for New Albany Mississippi | 130 |
Agnes Tait mural for Laurinburg North Carolina | 131 |
On the Issue of Africanisms in American Culture | 199 |
Louis Raynaud final mural for Bay St Louis Mississippi | 114 |
Francis Speight design for Gastonia North Carolina | 115 |
Francis Speight final mural for Gastonia North Carolina | 116 |
Minetta Good design for St Martinville Louisiana | 117 |
Minetta Good final mural for St Martinville Louisiana | 119 |
Laura B Lewis design for Eunice Louisiana | 120 |