Cover Artists (Fiction)
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (formerly Kansas Quarterly)
Volume 33, Number 3 December 2002
Poems ...... 179 by Colleen J. McElroy Electra Catching Gar
Devil Music and Gangsta Rap: A Study of Sexual Violence in Blues and Rap Lyrics...... 182 by Edward G. Armstrong
Cover Artists (fiction) ...... 194 by Constance Squires
A Bootheel Native Comes Home: A Photo~Essay ...... 201 by Jessica Martin
Crash (fiction) ...... 207 by Kim Chinquee
Poems ...... 213 by Garland Strother Ferry Accident Pulling Cotton
"I Was Born to Be a Musician Too": Female Guitarists in the Blues ...... 214 by Maria V. Johnson
Poems ...... 227 by Ann D. Ecoff The Escape Finishing School
Delta Sources and Resources ...... 229 Ozark Foothills Filmfest by Jennifer Methvin The Clover Bend Historic District by Tiffany L. Verkler Reviews ...... 233
Frasier and Freeman, The Majesty of the MississiPPi Delta, reviewed by Cory Shaman Cowan, Dufour, Chase, LeBlanc, and Wilds, New Orleans Yesterday and Today, reviewed by Mark Ledbetter Bronner, Lafcadio Hearn's America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editarials, reviewed by Thomas F. Dillingham Fox, Dixiana Moon, reviewed by Jerry D. Gibbens Gilchrist, The Annunciation, reviewed by Frances M. Malpezzi Freeman , Standing on My Father's Grave; Miller, Magnolia Hall; Shipley, Down of Hawk: Poems, reviewed by Sara Swanson Flora, MacKethan, and Taylor, The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, reviewed by Terrell Tebbetts Cartwright, Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales, reviewed by Barbara J. Wilcots Millichap, Dixie Limited: Railroads , Culture, and the Southern Renaissance, reviewed by Robert Donahoo Schreiber, Subversive Voices : Eroticizing the Other in William Faulkner and Toni Monison, reviewed by Andrew Scheiber Minter, Faulkner's Questioning Narratives: Fiction of His Major Phase, 1929-1942, reviewed by Doreen Fowler Alexander, Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines, reviewed by Frances Mitchell Ross Fernandez, From Chaos to Continuity: The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System , 1712-1862, reviewed by Elizabeth Urban Alexander DeArmond-Huskey, Rebecca, Bartholomew's Song: A Bayou History; Birch, Bayou Bartholomew (A Regional Stream), reviewed by Jimmy Peacock Blevins, Hill Folks: A Histary of Arkansas Ozari<.ers and Their Image, reviewed by H. Jane Park er Hawes and Nybakken, Family and Society in American History, reviewed by Gretchen J. Hill Schechter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American RefoTm, 1880-1930, reviewed by Elizabeth Higg inbotham Bonney and Paredes, AnthTOpologists and Indians in the N ew South, reviewed by Jason Baird Jackson Blumhofer, Religion, Politics, and the AmeTican Experience: Reflections on Religion and American Public Life, reviewed by Donald E. Whistler Baer, The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism , reviewed by Raymond A. Hall Malone, Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Worl Contributors...... 255 Five,Year Index ...... 257 by Virginia Sturgeon and Angela Williams Photographs by Paul Hickman, Guy Lancaster, Craig Ogilvie, and Miranda Remaklus.