POMPA: Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association Editor, Lorie Watkins Assistant Editor, Seth Dawson Assistant Editor, Pam Shearer Volume 34 2017 1 Table of Contents Editor’s Note 2017 Program Creative Submissions Critical Essays Pedagogical Approaches 2 Editor’s Note By Lorie Watkins It is with much pride that I write the editor’s note for this, the thirty-fourth volume of the Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (POMPA). Mississippi Valley State University hosted the 2017 conference from February 10th-11th. Conference organizer John Zheng once again designed an organized, inspiring program that included a catered banquet lunch in a private dining hall along with other refreshments throughout the conference. Of special note was an entertaining session in which blues artist Ben Wiley Payton presented an educational musical program entitled “Down Home Delta-Style Blues.” It was truly a treat to hear an authentic blues artist play in the very heart of the Mississippi Delta. 3 Other high points for some of us who ventured off campus included visiting the remains of the old Bryant Store nearby Money. In 2018, we look forward to returning to state capital as Jackson State University hosts the meeting. I look forward to dear friends and hearing inspired scholarship. Lorie Watkins 4 2017 Program Sutton Administration Building Mississippi Philological Association Annual Conference February 10-11, 2017 Held at Mississippi Valley State University Program Friday, February 10 Sutton Administration Building Sutton 201 Lab: Registration: 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. 2nd Fl, Sutton Administration Building 9:00-10:15 a.m. Sutton 231 Panel 1: Poetry Reading and Photoessay on Foodways Moderator: Shanell Bailey, Mississippi Valley State University Presenters: Laneka Smith, Mississippi Valley State University: “African American Foodways in Greenwood, MS” Zhanar Tastanova, Mississippi Valley State University: Poems Akerke Boltabekova, Mississippi Valley State University: Poems by Fariza Ongarsynova Deveon Treadway, Mississippi Valley State University: Poems Sutton 232 Panel 2: “Using an Intersectional Lens to Identify Coming-of-Age Characteristics in Diverse Women’s Literature” Moderator: Preselfannie McDaniels, Jackson State University Presenters: Tiffanie Herron, Jackson State University Sam Owens, Jackson State University 10:25:11:40 a.m. 5 Sutton 203 Panel 3: “Back into the Dark Woods: Modern Fairy-Tale Adaptations and their Return to Violence and Feminism” Moderator: Allison Wiltshire Presenters: Tamara Mahadin, Mississippi State University: “Magic Always Comes with a Price Dearie”: The New Adaptations of Fairy Tales in Popular Culture.” Allison Wiltshire, Mississippi State University: “Someday My Prince Will Come”: The Influence and Rejection of Masculine Heroism in Adaptations of “Snow White.” Craig Gentry, Mississippi State University: “Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Most Violent of Them All: Understanding Violence and Its Resurgence in Young Adult Fairy Tale Adaptations.” Casey Baumgartner, Mississippi State University: “Reshaping at the Stroke of a Quill: Appearance of Author- Character and the Violence He Brings within Modern Fairy-Tale Adaptations” Sutton 231 Panel 4: “Accountability, Customization, Sustainability, & Production: The Interdisciplinary Faculty Writing Boot Camp” Moderator: Preselfannie McDaniels Presenters: Monica Flippin Wynn, Lindenwood University: “Sustainability: Evaluation, Tenure, and Promotion” Rico Chapman, Jackson State University: “Customization: Structure and Individual Needs” Preselfannie McDaniels, Jackson State University: “Production: Charting the Results” Sutton 232 Panel 5: Fiction and Poetry Reading Moderator: Latonzia Evans, Mississippi Valley State University Presenters: Jo A. Baldwin, Mississippi Valley State University: “Muley the Milk Cow” and “McKinley’s Girl” Deborah Purnell, Mississippi Valley State University: “Lurking” April Lawrence, Mississippi Valley State University: Poems 11:50 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Business Meeting and Lunch (Cafeteria Dining Hall IV) Presiding: Bettye Farmer 1:10-2:25 p.m. Sutton 202 Panel 6: Mississippi Writers Moderator: Robert Sirabian, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Presenters: Jeff Smithpeters, Delta State University: “More Than ‘Sympathy for the Underdog’: Shelby Foote’s Ideology in Volume 1 of The Civil War: A Narrative” Linda E. McDaniel, William Carey University: “Delta Ghosts in Steve Yarbrough’s Visible Spirits” Greg Bentley, Mississippi State University: “The Name-of-the-Father, Alternative Masculinities, and Female Agency in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart” Sutton 203 Panel 7: On Writing Center, Technical Writing, and Freshman Writing Moderator: Mamie Osborne, Mississippi Valley State University Presenters: Kathi R. Griffin and Tatiana Glushko, Jackson State University: “Strategies for Advocacy: Writing Center as Site of Literacy Education and Resilience” Christine Mitchell, Southeastern Louisiana University: “New Applications in Technical Writing: The Evolution of the Home Sewing Pattern” Andrew Nelson, University of Arkansas at Monticello: “freshmancompoers.com: An Open Educational Resource for the Freshman Writing Section” Sutton 231 Panel 8: African American Literature Moderator: ShaharaTova Dente, Mississippi Valley State University 6 Presenters: Phillip Gordon, University of Wisconsin-Platteville: “Re-Reading A Mercy as Toni Morrison’s Hidden AIDS Narrative” Breana Miller, University of Memphis: “Racialized Violence and Lynching in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman” Rico Self, Louisiana State University: “‘Nobody was minding us, so we minded ourselves:’ Black Women’s Dialogic Resistance in Toni Morrison’s Sula” 2:35-3:50 p.m. Sutton 202 Panel 9: American Literature Moderator: Lorie Watkins, William Carey University Presenters: Benjamin F. Fisher, University of Mississippi: “Samuel Warren: Forgotten Purveyor of the Monstrous and Spectral” E. Kate Stewart, University of Arkansas at Monticello: “‘A Celebrated Preacher’ and ‘A Christian Reformer’: Herman Melville and Rebecca Harding Davis Respond to 19th-Century Christianity” Sutton 203 Panel 10: English and Irish Literature Moderator: Phillip Gordon, University of Wisconsin-Platteville Presenters: Mikki Galliher, Blue Mountain College: “Refusing to “Tend the Needle”: Lady Gregory’s Folk History Plays” Kenneth Mitchell, Southeastern Louisiana University: “Coleridge's Ironic Child: The Sonnet Sequence on Hartley’s Birth” Robert Sirabian, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point: “The Limits of Game Playing: Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” Sutton 231 Panel 11: Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Moderator: Deborah Purnell, Mississippi Valley State University Presenters: Craig Albin, Missouri State University-West Plains: “His to Give” Exodus Brownlow, Mississippi University for Women: “Love & Nappiness” Peter R. Malik, Alcorn State University: “Stop Sign” 4:00-5:15 p.m. Sutton 202 Panel 12: American Literature and Music Moderator: Greg Bentley, Mississippi State University Presenters: Antonia Eliason, University of Mississippi: “Contracts and the Blues: The Contracts of Trumpet Records” Brian Kehler, Alcorn State University: “Haunted by Hidden Knowledge: The Chinaberry Tree in the Southern Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor, Kate Chopin, and Zora Neale Hurston” Laura Scovel, William Carey University, “Gospel Music Writing in Bastard Out of Carolina” Sutton 203 Panel 13: Pedagogy and Techniques Moderator: Andrew Nelson, University of Arkansas at Monticello Presenters: Muhammad Alasmari, The University of Memphis: “Same Writer, Two Different Languages: The Existing of Voice in Written Discourse” Shanell Bailey, Mississippi Valley State University: “Reforming the Composition Classroom: Assessing Flipped Learning Techniques” Ernest R. Pinson, William Carey University: “Innovative Techniques by Modern Immigrant Writers” Sutton 231 Panel 14: William Faulkner / Race and Law Moderator: E. Kate Stewart, University of Arkansas at Monticello Presenters: Craig Albin, Missouri State University-West Plains: “The Mask of Race in Faulkner’s ‘A Bear Hunt’” Amanda Ringer, Oakwood University: “Teaching about Race and the Law” 7 Lorie Watkins, William Carey University: “The Walking Dead: Mapping Digital Yoknapatawpha” Special Event – Sutton Administration Building 108 Friday, February 10 5:30-6:30 p.m. Ben Wiley Payton, Blues Artist “Down Home Delta-Style Blues” Introduction: Ben Arnold Ben Wiley Payton of Jackson, Mississippi is an acoustic blues artist with roots in the Delta, but he's only a relatively recent convert to the vintage style. Born in tiny Coila in the hill country just east of the Delta, Ben lived in Greenwood—the resting place of Robert Johnson—before moving as a teen with his family in the early 1960s to Chicago. There Payton fell in the city’s vibrant blues and soul scene, performing with artists including Bobby Rush. In the late '60s jazz pianist Randy Weston recruited Payton for an extended stay at a club in Morocco, which widened his musical outlook. In the late '70s Payton laid down his guitar and concentrated on raising his family, but picked up the acoustic guitar again in the '90s. Payton soon returned to his home state of Mississippi, and began studying and then performing the music of early masters including Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, and Mississippi John Hurt. He also applies his rich voice and considerable guitar skills to his own compositions—his debut CD, Diggin' Up Old Country Blues, features all originals