The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Nearly Complete Final Volumes to Be Published This Spring

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the newsletter of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture • Winter 2013 the university of mississippi The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Nearly Complete Final Volumes to Be Published This Spring

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture series, a decade-long project that began in earnest in early 2003, is nearing completion. The final two volumes in the 24-volume series, Folk Art and Race, are scheduled for publication by the University of North Carolina Press (UNC Press) this May. Volumes 21 and 22, Art and Architecture and Science and Medicine, are now in print. “The twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture stand as an extraordinary achievement and a tribute to the long and productive relationship UNC Press has enjoyed with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture,” said UNC Press editorial director Mark Simpson-Vos. “Seeing the now almost-complete set of books on my shelf is one of the daily joys of coming into my office, especially when I think of the ways readers will benefit for years to come from the hard work and thoughtful contributions of the series’ many volume editors and contributors.” The final countdown to the realization of the entire series began with volume 21, Science and Medicine. Coedited by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture associate director for publications James G. Thomas Jr. and former Center director Charles Reagan Wilson, the book appeared in print this past November. Thomas and Wilson have also worked as the series’ managing editor and general editor, respectively. Ann Abadie, the Center’s associate director emerita worked closely with Wilson and Thomas as the series associate editor. “Once we received the first copies of theScience and Medicine volume, we began to feel a sense of conclusion,” said Thomas. “The manuscripts for the last three books had just recently been sent to the Press, and much of the work on the series was complete. I wasn’t receiving contributions anymore, and

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Published Quarterly by This has been a good time for the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The Center for the Study of Southern Culture As this issue shows, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture project is coming to The University of Mississippi completion, faculty members, friends, and alumni are publishing books and doing oth- Telephone: 662-915-5993 er extraordinary things, a long-term film project will be showing in the spring on pub- Fax: 662-915-5814 E-mail: [email protected] lic television stations, conferences are bringing an exciting range of people to campus, www.southernstudies.olemiss.edu and new and not-so-new faculty are teaching all sorts of interesting classes. www.facebook.com/SouthernStudies So, it’s not easy to talk about difficulties. But a lot of people on and off the University of Mississippi campus have been talking about difficulties since some students angry IN THIS ISSUE at the election of Barack Obama went out on election night and used racist language Winter 2013 to condemn the president and his supporters. That topic deserves consideration here. 1. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Nearly Complete The university’s responses included condemning the event and those involved, having 2. Director’s Column a large and public walk through campus to reinforce its commitment to openness and 3. Current Projects at Living Blues respect, convening committees to investigate the event itself (the Incident Review 3. Living Blues News 4. Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series Committee’s report is available at https://secure1.olemiss.edu/tools/userfiles/mkcleary- 4. Mark Your Calendars 2013! 300-cef212bc-e0a0-4081-a441-e39504d04efd.html) and to think more broadly about 5. Cuba—People: A Gammill Gallery Exhibition how to take actions about sensitivity and multiculturalism, encouraging new and on- 6. Feders’s Second $100,000 Gift to Support going discussions, and making other efforts. Oxford Conference for the Book With some combination of anger and frustration, people immediately began ask- 7. Southern Studies & Southern Foodways Seek to Fill Position ing questions. I want to use this column, thinking both as a citizen of the university 8. The 20th Oxford Conference for the Book and a historian with my own anger and frustration, to do the same. 9. Oxford Conference for the Book Schedule 10. The 10th Annual Mississippi Delta For example, people wondered what to call the event. A riot? An angry politi- Cultural Tour, set for March 17–20, 2013 cal protest? An incident? Should those of us at the university who deal with issues 11. OCB and MDCT Registration Form of race talk more about challenges, problems, and things undone, or should we use 12. The 10th Annual Mississippi Delta Cultural Tour Schedule harsher language about the failure of our efforts to encourage respect for all people? 13. UM Museum Announces Recent Major Gift Questions began immediately about both causes and effects. How many people on of Southern Art to the Permanent Collection 14. Alumni in Academics campus will wonder if they are as welcome or as safe or as respected as they thought 16. Southern Foodways Alliance’s Feature they were before election night? How many people who might have applied to be a Length Documentary Pride & Joy Debuts 18. David Wharton, Center Director of student, staff member, or faculty member will not apply to the university? How many Documentary Studies, Publishes Book of people who might have come as a guest will decline or think twice? How many alum- Photography ni will face doubts or questions about the value of their education? How many people 20. Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference 21. Music of the South Conference: on campus will face suspicions about what it might say about them that they work at a Innovation and Experimental Music and campus where such things take place? And what of student life? Are there practices in the South student life that allow racist language in some circles? Do various forms of social segre- 21. Porter L. Fortune Jr. History Symposium, February 21–22, 2013 gation work against people learning the destructiveness of such practices? Does calling 22. Make ’em Laugh: Comedy Studies in sports teams the Rebels allow some people to assume that racist language is acceptable? Academia 23. Eudora Welty Awards Did student discussions inside and outside class become more difficult? 23. Southern Literary Trail Events How can we best use the language of scholars to think about displays of racism? Do 24. Jumped the Broom we teach the right things? And do we teach them in the right ways? And do we teach 24. Contributors 24. Southern Studies Musicians Continue to them to the right people? Many people immediately thought of the 1962 riot that Make News pitted opponents of integrating the University of Mississippi against the federal gov- 25. Reading the South 31. Kitchen to Classroom: Grad Students ernment and U.S. military, and many also wondered about the university’s programs, Present Research just a month earlier, that commemorated those events. Did the election night events 31. Another Look 31. In Memoriam represent, to use the language of countless historians, continuity and the persistence 32. The Southern Studies Tent: Community of racism? Or was this a new or different sort of racist event and, in the language of Building in the Grove so many historians, an example of discontinuity? Do the old works on southern race 35. Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters’ Awards Nominees Announced and politics by C. Vann Woodward, the most influential scholar of southern discontinuity, relate to racist language used to condemn President Obama and his support- REGISTER STAFF ers? Woodward argued in several works that racist language in politics represented at- tempts to form coalitions among people who could share an identity. Were there po- Editor: James G. Thomas Jr. litical, coalition-building goals that cut across class or other lines on display on elec- Graphic Designer: Susan Bauer Lee Mailing List Manager: Mary Hartwell Howorth tion night? Many newer scholars who deal with the social construction of race have Lithographer: RR Donnelley Magazine Group viewed racism as part of a different type of politics that tries to make white privilege The University complies with all applicable laws regard- seem normal and natural, to win potential arguments without having them, or per- ing affirmative action and equal opportunity in all its activities and programs and does not discriminate against haps to shift the center of arguments. For these historians, racism is slippery and of- anyone protected by law because of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or status as a veteran or disabled veteran. continued on page 30 Page 2 Winter 2013 The Southern Register Current Projects at Living Blues News It’s rare these days for any- Living Blues one even remotely at- Last year we began digitizing current issues of Living Blues tached to the blues to hit and making them available as a digital subscription. The the Billboard Top 100, but magazine can now be read on iPad and is available on our 28-year-old blues guitar phe- website and iTunes. A digital subscription is $15 or is includ- nom Gary Clark Jr. has done ed as a bonus with a hardcopy subscription. just that. Clark’s new release After the initial response to the digital edition, we began debuted at # 6 last week. digitizing our entire catalog of issues dating back to our pre- Clark (whom we profi led mier issue in October 1970. We’ve had a lot of interest in in our “Breaking Out” col- back issues over the years, and over time this could prove umn in LB #192 in 2007) to be a cost-effective way to distribute them. Eventually, has been seen on Letterman, we will have the entire catalog of 220-plus issues available Leno, Fallon, Good Morning in a digital format for readers, subscribers, and researchers. America, and other big shows Ideally, we can monetize our archive and make it available to presenting his take on the libraries, researchers, and fans for a reasonable fee to defray blues. And while purists might get their feathers ruffl ed over the cost of the project. some of his songs, if his popularity can help bring a focus back Additionally, we are implementing the Living Blues Legacy on the blues and increase its overall appeal . . . well, more Project to preserve blues music documents. We have a dedicat- power to him. We’ll have Clark on our next cover with an ed audience, and over the years they’ve accumulated a wealth in-depth story on the young man from writer Lee Hildebrand. of material. Of course, some LPs, posters, or memorabilia have Speaking of young blues guitar phenoms, this issue’s “Lost value in the marketplace, and we expect people to keep or sell Blues Files” is a real winner. Louisiana-based Excello record- this material. On the other hand, personal photographs, old ing artist Leroy Washington won’t ring a bell to most folks, cassette tapes, or news clippings may only have research value, but if you ever hear his wonderful song “Wild Cherry” you’ll and we hope to get them archived. Signifi cantly, the stature or be an instant fan. I stumbled on a 45 rpm of “Wild Cherry” at popularity of a blues artist is unimportant in this regard. Almost a junk store in Louisiana about 15 years ago and was totally any historical blues document can contribute to the overall sto- blown away by it. But when I tried to fi nd out more about the ry of a city or a music scene at a particular time. artist who had recorded it I came to a quick dead end. Fifteen Editor Brett Bonner and I had talked about this project years later, writer Gene Tomko approached me about doing a before, because of the number of artists and writers we deal column on Leroy Washington. The man was still a biographi- with, but it really got going when I met John Allison, son of cal mystery, and what little was known about him was wrong. jazz pianist Mose Allison. He visited the Blues Archive last Hats off to Tomko for his persistence and dogged determina- year and we spoke about his father’s career and John’s inter- tion to get to the bottom of the story. After a long and of- est in the blues. He explained that he had old cassette tapes ten frustrating trail of detective work, we present in this issue of Delta Blues Festivals from the 1980s, as well as interviews the story of “Louisiana’s Guitar Wizard” Leroy Washington— with Mississippi folk artists and recordings of sermons from complete with rare, unpublished photos and a surprising (to Reverend Willie Morganfi eld’s Bell Grove Missionary Baptist say the least) discovery at Washington’s burial site. Church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Naturally, I wanted to hear I have a few LB business items: We have stopped giving what he had, but I immediately recognized the need to pre- away the free sample of the digital edition of LB on our web- serve the audio on the tapes. Although cassette tapes have a site, but our print subscribers can get the digital edition free by fairly long shelf life, they are constantly deteriorating. signing up. Just send an e-mail to [email protected] and Digitizing cassette tapes is time consuming, but eventual- put “Free digital edition” in your subject line. We’ll get you set ly this material will be available to the public via our Blues up at no extra charge! Archive here on campus. We are also letting our current and We have started posting the Living Blues Radio Charts on former contributors know about the project in hopes of pre- the website on a monthly basis rather than every two months. serving audio interviews they’ve accumulated over the years. Charts will be up by the seventh of the month. Go online to The great thing about the Legacy Project is that once we’ve livingblues.com and check out the latest charts. digitized the materials, we can return the original cassettes And last, we have redesigned our Facebook page and shut to their owners. Importantly, contributors can work with down the old one. (We tried to migrate everyone but only had Greg Johnson in the Blues Archive and place restrictions marginal success.) Our new Facebook page features photos, on use of the material. In time, we hope to work with profes- announcements, and special offers you won’t get anywhere sionals throughout the blues industry that may donate mate- else. Please like us on Facebook and friend us on Twitter to rials that researchers can use for years to come. keep up with the latest goings on at Living Blues.

Mark Camarigg Brett J. Bonner

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 3 Center for the Study of Southern Culture

JANUARY The University of Mississippi 30 “Who Belongs? Becoming Tribal Members in the South” Mikaëla Adams Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series Assistant Professor of History University of Mississippi Spring Semester 2013 The Brown Bag Luncheon Series takes place each Wednesday FEBRUARY at noon in the Barnard Observatory Lecture Hall during the 6 “‘I Won’t Be Reconstructed’: regular academic year. Confederate Memory in Popular Culture” A Discusion of Capitalism and Roy Button Joseph Thompson Slavery in the Age of Jackson” Southern Studies Graduate Student Southern Studies Graduate Josh Rothman Student Director, Frances S. Summersell 10 “A Screening of This Haus of Center for the Study of the South Memories” 13 “Ordinary Citizens’ Sense of Place Associate Professor of History and Justin Nystrom in Pre–Civil Rights Movement African American Studies Documentary and Oral History West Point, Mississippi” University of Alabama Studio Terry Jean Williams Buffington, Loyola University, New Orleans Anthropologist 13 Spring Break Oxford, Mississippi 17 “The Memory of the Civil Rights 20 “How to Parse a Press” Movement at the University of 20 “‘I Can See It All from Here’: Walter Biggins and Steve Yates Mississippi, 1962–2012.” What Happens When Andrew University Press of Mississippi Jillian McClure Bird Comes South” Southern Studies Graduate Student Mel Lasseter 27 “Asian Invasion: Asian Carp Southern Studies Graduate and Their Journey through the 24 “The End of an Era: The New Student Mississippi River System” Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Meghan M. Holmes Project Concludes” 27 “Down Friendship: A Journey Southern Studies Graduate Student Ann Abadie, Center associate di- Home” rector emerita Chelsea Wright APRIL James G. Thomas Jr., Center asso- Southern Studies Graduate Student 3 “Growing Communities: Urban ciate director for publications Gardens and Community Ted Ownby, Center director MARCH Development in New Orleans” Charles Reagan Wilson, former 6 “Flush Times and Fever Dreams: Center director Mark Your Calendars 2013! Wednesdays February 28–March 3 May 19–20 June 7 January 30–April 24 Charleston Wine and Food Stir the Pot at Poole’s Diner Potlikker NYC at Blue Brown Bag Lecture Series Festival Featuring Steven Satterfield Smoke Charleston, South Carolina of Miller Union New York, New York February 21–23 Raleigh, North Carolina Porter Fortune Jr. History March 17–20 June 8–9 Symposium Mississippi Delta Cultural May 21 Big Apple Barbecue Block Tour The New Encyclopedia Party February 21–24 of Southern Culture New York, New York Oxford Film Festival March 21–23 Celebration Oxford Conference for the Library of Congress June 20–23 February 25 Book Washington, D.C. Summer Foodways Tracie McMillan Symposium American Way of Eating April 3–4 May 30–June 2 Richmond, Virginia Lecture Music of the South Zingerman’s Camp Bacon University of Mississippi Conference Ann Arbor, Michigan

Page 4 Winter 2013 The Southern Register Cuba—People A Gammill Gallery Exhibition Photographs and text by Bob Michaels

Bob Michaels’s photography, which focuses on the people of rural Cuba, will be on exhibition in the Gammill Gallery in Barnard Observatory until February 21. On Friday, February 15, Michaels will give a lecture on his work in Barnard Observatory, with a reception to follow. The time of the event will be announced on the CSSC website and Facebook page.

Adapted from the artist’s statement:

“I made these photos during 12 trips to Cuba, from 2009 to 2012. I visit the parts of Cuba that the tourists do not explore, including smaller, rural communities. My photos give some insight into a culture seldom understood by Americans. It is a culture basically un- changed by political events of the last half-century. Economic problems result in a way of life reminiscent of many “This young couple was dancing on the Prado to the music of one of the groups that fre- years ago—a way of life without the in- quently sets up and plays for the public late in the afternoon. The Prado, completed in 1852, fluence of the Internet, mass-market is a wide, elegant, marble and terrazzo promenade and narrow park stretching 10 blocks from television, advertising, large stores, and the sea to the capitol building in downtown Havana. Considered one of the great urban de- easy transportation. The photos show signs of the modern era, it is home to pedes- this social, happy community existence. trians and people socializing under the trees. It also serves as the playground for several “There are similarities between this adjacent schools, the home of the Saturday- Cuban culture and small Southern morning permuta, or real estate exchange, and places. The economic resourcefulness, as an artists’ exhibition space.” the close-knit communities, the influ- ence of religion, and the pleasure de- rived from the basic parts of life are comparable.

“I travel alone, with limited language skills, sometimes not knowing exact- “Every community has a hogar materno, or ly where I am. I travel as the Cubans maternity house, where pregnant women do—in the backs of trucks, on buses stay as they approach birth. This assures they have transportation to the hospital and horse-drawn wagons, and catching since most do not have telephones and rides in private vehicles. I always stay only a select few have access to an auto- in families’ rented rooms rather than in mobile. The women sleep in communal hotels so that I can continue to learn “This farmhand was standing in the door- rooms and receive breast-feeding and oth- more of the day-to-day life of the people way of his home out in the country in er health counseling. Most importantly, I’m photographing.” Sancti Spiritus province when I indicated I they are removed from their daily respon- wanted to photograph him. He told me ‘un sibilities of cooking, cleaning, and looking momento’ and disappeared inside but quick- after the children. This hogar materno is in ly returned with this huge mango for the Vinales, a small agricultural town in west- photo. Then he gave me the mango.” ern Cuba.”

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 5 Feders’s Second $100,000 Gift to Support Oxford Conference for the Book As native Mississippians, Ron and Robert Jordon Becky Feder grew up steeped in the folkways of the American South. But it took an extended stay in the faraway Philippines to help them truly appreciate the extraordinary—and decidedly unique—culture of their homeland. The Feders have been donating their money and time to the study and preservation of Southern culture ever since. Most recently, the couple provided a second gift of $100,000 to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture to support the Oxford Conference for the Book. It’s one of many such gifts to the University over the years from the Feders, who also previously donat- ed $100,000 to the conference and another $100,000 to the Center’s Music of the South Endowment Fund, plus Center Director Ted Ownby with Ron and Becky Feder at Barnard Observatory $50,000 to the Southern Foodways Alliance. “A gift like this is pretty extraordinary, both because it is such a big help and come with me to California, where gram, created by the Center and its for- to the Oxford Conference for the Book I was stationed,” he recalled. The two mer director Bill Ferris. “That’s when and also because it makes it much eas- married in 1975, lived for a while in the the Center became important to Becky ier to plan for the future of the confer- Washington, D.C., area, and then re- and me and literally forced us to choose ence,” said Center director Ted Ownby. turned to Oxford when Feder enrolled between a career that could take us all “The funds will pay a lot of the travel in law school. “It was during law school over the world or a return to sweet home expenses of the speakers and allow the that I learned that the Center had been Mississippi,” Feder said. conference to attract the diverse group formally established a year earlier,” They chose Mississippi, of course, of people—writers and publishers and Feder said. “Becky and I did not real- and Feder soon settled into a high- agents and others—that make the OCB ly pay attention at that time because, ly successful private law practice in such a unique event.” well, we figured we knew enough about Ocean Springs. After buying a sec- Becca Walton, the OCB’s director Southern culture because we had been ond home in Oxford in 2001, the cou- and associate director for projects at the living it most of our lives. It was not un- ple reached out to Center associate di- CSSC, agreed. “We so appreciate the til we journeyed nine thousand miles to rector Ann Abadie and offered assis- Feders’s gift, as it demonstrates an en- the Philippines, on the far edge of the tance where it was needed most. “She during interest in the power of the writ- western Pacific, that we realized the pe- told me about the Conference for the ten word to bring diverse people togeth- culiar wonder of Southern culture.” Book, and we made our initial ten-year er for meaningful discussion. With a Having rejoined the Air Force as a commitment to that program in 2002,” firm foundation made possible through judge advocate upon graduating from Feder said. “We recently renewed for gifts like the Feders’s, the conference is law school in 1981, Feder found him- another ten years because we appreci- growing and will continue to reach new self stationed, along with Becky and ate the great work the conference has audiences eager for a discussion of the their children, at Clark Air Base in the done over the years, celebrating the common experience of reading.” Philippines during the tumultuous last lives and works of great southern writ- Born and raised in Vicksburg, Ron years of President Ferdinand Marcos’s ad- ers like Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Feder graduated from Ole Miss in 1973 ministration. The island nation, he not- Flannery O’Connor, Larry Brown, and with a bachelor’s degree in political sci- ed, “was not exactly the tropical paradise Barry Hannah.” ence. There, he met Becky, his future that we had envisioned.” Fortunately, An avid reader of both fiction and wife, and lured her across the country the Feders got to enjoy the blues-tinged nonfiction, Feder says he doesn’t have when he joined the Air Force in 1974. sounds of home once a week when the any one favorite author, but he and his “Since I couldn’t live without her, I sug- Armed Forces Broadcast Network start- wife are both fans of UM’s own Tom gested she finish her degree elsewhere ed carrying the Highway 61 radio pro- Franklin. And, after 34 years of active

Page 6 Winter 2013 The Southern Register and reserve Air Force service, including to endure, may not always prevail. “We The Center for the Study of Southern a four-month tour of duty in Baghdad could see that it was slowly homogeniz- Culture is open to receive gifts from in- in 2006, Feder still soldiers on, in a ing into the larger, blander American dividuals and organizations by sending sense, as a Civil War reenactor. He be- culture,” he recalls. “How wonderful, a check to the University of Mississippi longs to a group, based in St. Louis and we thought, that the Center is docu- Foundation, P.O. Box 249, University, central Illinois, that portrays Company menting and studying the hows and MS 38677, or by visiting www.umfoun- G of the 11th Mississippi Infantry whys of the South’s cultural landscape dation.com/makeagift. Regiment, an Oxford and Lafayette before it all disappears into the larger County regiment that fought under American melting pot.” Rick Hynum General Robert E. Lee at Antietam, Manassas, and Gettysburg, among other historically significant battles. The reenactments, Feder said, give him “in- Southern Studies & Southern sight into the terrible trauma of the American Civil War, the grinding hu- miliation of defeat and occupation ex- Foodways Seek to Fill Position perienced by the South, and, most im- The University of Mississippi seeks a postdoctoral teaching fellow and adjunct portantly, how these two phenomena assistant professor in Southern Studies for 2013–14. created ‘the mind of the South,’ as the The successful candidate should have a PhD by the time of appointment and writer W.J. Cash so brilliantly described should study the relationship between foodways and cultural life in the American it. It also explains why, in Mississippi South. Teaching responsibilities will include two courses—a Southern Studies and elsewhere in the Old Confederacy, course entitled Foodways and Southern Culture and a second course related to ‘the past is never dead.’” foodways in his/her discipline, i.e., history, English, sociology, anthropology, or As chair of the Center’s advisory another liberal arts discipline. board, Feder urges his fellow southern- The postdoctoral fellow will also work to expand connections between the ers to support its programs, such as the Southern Foodways Alliance—a documentary- and outreach-focused institute Music of the South Conference and within the Center for the Study of Southern Culture—and various academic the Southern Foodways Alliance. Too programs of the university. many denizens of the South “don’t ap- Candidates must complete an online application at jobs.olemiss.edu. preciate southern culture as something Candidates should also attach to the online application, or send by mail, the unique or special,” he said. “They enjoy following supplementary materials: a letter that outlines research and teaching life down here and just don’t ponder the interests, a syllabus or plan for teaching a foodways course, a vita, and a chapter- hows or the whys.” length writing sample. Feder considers the Center as “the Three letters of recommendation should be mailed to Ted Ownby, Director, flagship program of Ole Miss and one Center for the Study of Southern Culture, P.O. Box 1848, University of of the very few that truly distinguish- Mississippi, University, MS 38677. es Ole Miss from all the other colleges The review of applications will begin soon and continue until the position is and universities in this country.” After filled or an adequate applicant pool is established. all, as the Feders began to realize dur- The University of Mississippi is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ ing their time in the Philippines, the ADA/ADEA employer. American South, although it continues

Call for Papers The Southern Quarterly A Journal of the Arts in the South invites submissions of interdisciplinary scholarly articles, interviews with major Southern writers, composers, and artists, unpublished archival materials, and poems anchored in the ethos of the South. Please submit original manuscripts to the following address: Managing Editor, The Southern Quarterly The University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive #5078 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001

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The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 7 The 20th Oxford Conference for the Book

The 20th Oxford Conference for the Held at the historic Barksdale-Isom Book will take place March 21–23, 2013. House, this opening reception is a lively The program includes readings, panel dis- fundraiser with wonderful food, drinks, cussions, and talks by more than 45 tal- and conversation with fellow confer- ented writers from across the nation. To ence-goers and guest writers. A portion learn more about all guest speakers, please of the ticket price is tax-deductible. visit the conference’s revamped website, Tickets are $50 each and reservations oxfordconferenceforthebook.com. are required by March 15. Please return the registration form on page 11 or pur- Panel Discussions and Talks Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of Ninth chase tickets through the OCB website. Panels will explore a range of topics, Ward, will give a presentation for fifth including recent civil rights histories graders at 9:00 a.m., and Mary Amato, Poetry Talk and Lunch – Friday, and biographies, southern grit lit, eco- author of Guitar Notes, will give a talk March 22, at noon poetry and environmental literature, for ninth graders at 10:30 a.m. Hosted by the Lafayette County making art books, music biography in The goal of the YAF is to give each Oxford Public Library, this lunch in- the global South, and literacy issues in child a book of his or her own to read cludes a talk on craft by poet Nicole an increasingly multilingual nation. A along with classmates and teachers dur- Cooley. poetry reading will be followed by a dis- ing the 2012–13 school year. Square Free but reservations required. Return cussion of craft. Books Jr. works with local teachers to the registration form on page 11, sign up at Past Grisham Writers in Residence, choose books that are relevant and en- the OCB website, or call 662-234-5751 along with the current Grisham Writer, gaging for the students. The conference to reserve your spot. will discuss their experiences writing, then invites the books’ authors to pres- teaching, and living in the literary town ent programs to each grade. That after- RELATED EVENTS of Oxford. Another panel will explore the noon, both authors will sign books at relationship between writing and teach- Square Books Jr. ON PUBLISHING FOR ing. A special program will celebrate the Special thanks goes to the Junior CONFERENCE-GOERS life and work of Evans Harrington. Auxiliary of Oxford for sponsoring the Thacker Mountain Radio will have fifth-grade program and to the Lafayette Brown Bag Lecture – Wednesday, March a special OCB show at 6:00 p.m. on County Literacy Council for sponsor- 20, at noon, Barnard Observatory Thursday, March 21. ing the ninth-grade program. Sincere University Press of Mississippi offers thanks to Square Books Jr., the engine publishing guidance in “How to Parse Readings and Conversations Presented of the YAF. a Press” by Square Books Walter Biggins and Steve Yates with Square Books will present both well- SPECIAL SOCIAL EVENTS the University Press of Mississippi will known and up-and-coming writers cur- give a presentation they call “How to rently on book tour for several sessions Welcome Lunch – Thursday, March Parse a Press.” Both Biggins and Yates of readings. On Saturday, Square Books 21, at 11:30 a.m. are university press publishing profes- will also host a discussion of publish- Hosted by the University of sionals and published fiction writers. In ing with industry professionals. Check Mississippi Library, this lunch in this session they will help faculty and the OCB website in February for an- Archives and Special Collections is a authors discover ways to discern which nouncements of the writers and pub- wonderful kickoff event that concludes university press might be right for a par- lishers who will join us. with a talk by W. Ralph Eubanks of the ticular manuscript. Library of Congress. Young Author’s Fair Free but reservations appreciated. Please Pitchapalooza – Wednesday, March The 2013 YAF will be held on Friday, return the registration form on page 11 or 20, at 7:00 p.m., Off Square Books March 22, at the Ford Center for sign up at oxfordconferenceforthebook. Pitchapalooza is an event designed Performing Arts, with over 1,000 area com/attend. for authors to pitch book ideas and get fifth graders and ninth graders from the advice about the publishing process. public schools of Lafayette County and Opening Reception Benefiting the OCB Oxford in attendance. – Thursday, March 21, at 7:00 p.m. continued on page 9

Page 8 Winter 2013 The Southern Register Oxford Conference for the Book Schedule THURSDAY, MARCH 21 1:30 p.m. Writing and Teaching 10:30 a.m. Optional check-in begins. Get your parking Chris Offutt, moderator pass if you did not request and receive by mail. Alice Randall, Skip Horack, and Owen King 11:30 a.m. Lunch hosted by the University of Mississippi 2:30 p.m. The Ecopoetry Anthology Library Reading and Discussion Noon Opening Talk by W. Ralph Eubanks, Library of Ann Fisher-Wirth, moderator Congress Laura-Gray Street, Juan Carlos Galeano, and “Of Books and Libraries: Why Libraries, Forrest Gander Publishing, and Storytelling Still Matter” 3:30 p.m. Readings Presented by Square Books 1:30 p.m. Chancellor’s Welcome by Daniel W. Jones Authors TBA Writing at the University: The University of 4:30 p.m. Recent Civil Rights Movement Books Mississippi Grisham Writers Curtis Wilkie, moderator Tom Franklin, moderator Michael O’Brien, Michael V. Williams, and Michael Knight, Brad Watson, and Nic Brown Barbara Matusow 2:30 p.m. Contemporary Poetry Readings and Discussion 6:00 p.m. Identity Politics and Gua Bao Beth Ann Fennelly, moderator Eddie Huang in Conversation with John T. Edge Robert Griffith and Nicole Cooley Off Square Books 4:00 p.m. Writing Southern Grit Lit 6:45 p.m. Book Signing for All Conference Authors Kathryn McKee, moderator Brian Carpenter, Alex Taylor, and Ron Rash SATURDAY, MARCH 23 6:00 p.m. Thacker Mountain Radio 8:30 a.m. Coffee in the Lobby 7 :00 p.m. Opening Reception (advance registration 9:00 a.m. Art Books, Their Purpose and Future required) Bill Dunlap, moderator Barksdale-Isom House Estill Curtis “Buck” Pennington, Rick Gruber, Judith Bonner, and Leila Salisbury FRIDAY, MARCH 22 10:30 a.m. Literacy and the Language Barrier: Discussion 9:00 a.m. Young Readers’ Program: 5th Grade of Literacy and English as a Learned Language Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ninth Ward Panelists TBA 10:00 a.m. Evans Harrington Remembrance 11:30 a.m. Lunch on Your Own 10:30 a.m. Young Readers’ Program: 9th Grade 1:30 p.m. Music Biography in the Global South Mary Amato, Guitar Notes Ted Ownby, moderator Noon Poetry Talk and Lunch at the Lafayette Ben Sandmel and Vladimir Alexandrov Oxford Public Library (advance registration 2:30 p.m. Square Books Panel on the State of Publishing required) 4:00 p.m. Readings Presented by Square Books Nicole Cooley, poet Authors TBA 4:45 p.m. Book Signing for All Conference Authors continued from 8 Pitchapalooza book. To sign up to pitch, you must pur- She is also the author of seven books Hosts Arielle Eckstut and David Henry chase a copy of The Essential Guide to and the cofounder of the iconic brand Sterry will select 20 writers at random Getting Your Book Published. Anyone LittleMissMatched. Sterry is the bestsell- to give a one-minute book pitch. Judges who buys a copy receives a free 20-min- ing author of 13 books on a wide vari- will help authors improve his or her ute consultation, a $100 value. If you ety of subjects, including memoir, sports, pitch, critiquing everything from idea don’t want to pitch, the event is free. young-adult fiction, and reference. They to style to potential in the marketplace. Eckstut and Sterry are cofounders of the have taught on how to get published at Authors come away with concrete ad- Book Doctors, a company dedicated to places such as Stanford University and vice as well as a greater understanding helping authors get their books published. Smith College and have appeared in the of the ins and outs of the publishing They are also coauthors of The Essential New York Times and USA Today and on industry. Guide to Getting Your Book Published: NPR’s Morning Edition. At the end of Pitchapalooza, the How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It... For more information on this event, judges will pick a winner. The winner Successfully (Workman, 2010). Eckstut visit thebookdoctors.com/workshops or receives an introduction to an agent has been a literary agent for 18 years at e-mail [email protected]. or publisher appropriate for his or her the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency.

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 9 The 10th Annual Mississippi Delta Cultural Tour, set for March 17–20, 2013 This annual tour of the Mississippi Jimmy Thomas Delta, March 17–20, 2013, is set to lead intrepid travelers across the Delta countryside once again. The tour will be based at the Alluvian Hotel in downtown Greenwood, and from there we’ll explore the rich literary, culinary, and musical heritage of the Delta towns of Greenwood, Greenville, Clarksdale, Indianola, Winterville, Tutwiler, Rosedale, and Benoit. We’ll make several stops that we’ve never made before, and we’ll meet new scholars, writers, and filmmakers who are producing new work based in and on the Delta. On Sunday afternoon, March 17, we’ll gather at the increasingly famous Turnrow Book Company for an over- view discussion on the history of the Mississippi Delta by local author-historian Mary Carol Miller, followed by a discussion with food journalist Susan Puckett and photographer Langdon 2010 Delta Tour participants gather at the entrance of the B.S. Ricks Memorial Library, Clay on their new book of Delta eater- where they heard talks on Yazoo City writers by writer Gerry Helferich, on Willie ies, Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler’s Morris by JoAnne Prichard Morris, and on Henry Herschel Brickell by Teresa Nicholas. Journey through the Soul of the South, which will provide a tantalizing pre- a talk by Philip Gordon, the Frances clude the day’s sessions. This will be the view of what lies in store for the rest of Bell McCool Dissertation Fellow at first time a talk focusing specifically on the tour. “William Faulkner’s Delta,” the University of Mississippi, will con- William Faulkner in the Delta has been given on this tour. We’ll end the day with dinner at the famous Giardina’s Restaurant, founded in 1936. On Monday, March 18, we’ll start the day touring various blues sites, such as “where the southern crosses the yel- low dog,” with blues scholar and the host of Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Highway 61 radio show, and then visit the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola. We’ll dine on soul food at the iconic Club Ebony juke joint and then travel to the new Museum of the Mississippi Delta to visit an exhibition on the Civil War’s impact on the Delta near Greenwood. Later that afternoon we’ll return to Turnrow Book Company to snack on hot tamales with the Southern Foodways Alliance’s (SFA) oral historian Amy C. Evans. She’ll educate us on the SFA’s hot tamale trail as well as on their barbecue, gumbo, and boudin trails. We’ll end Delta explorers Roberta, Carey, and Bill Sheriff (l-r) in 2011 in front of the Mississippi the day learning about Craig Claiborne, Blues Trail marker that commemorates Club Ebony

Page 10 Winter 2013 The Southern Register the celebrated New York Times food ed- a Native American civilization that his maternal grandfather, the Reverend itor, from writer Tom McNamee. His thrived from about A.D. 1000 to 1450.” Walter E. Dakin, was rector for 16 years book The Man Who Changed the Way We Site archeologists and historians will (1917–33). Following lunch at the Eat “profiles Claiborne’s turbulent, bril- be on hand to explain the significance Cutrer Mansion, New York filmmaker liant, and unscripted life—which had of this historic site. That afternoon in Karen Kohlhaas will show sneak-peek such a profound impact on a huge swath Greenville we’ll hear a lecture by lit- selections of her film-in-progress on the of American culture,” claims Danny erary scholar Marion Barnwell at the life of Tennessee Williams. That after- Meyer, writer and famed restaurateur. William Alexander Memorial Library noon, Mississippi actress Alice Walker We’ll break for drinks at the Alluvian on Greenville author Walker Percy, will perform scenes from Tennessee bar before we set forth to dine at Delta winner of the 1962 National Book Williams’s Mississippi plays on the front Bistro with chef Taylor Ricketts, a 2011 Award for his novel The Moviegoer, porch of local resident Panny Mayfield. James Beard Awards “Best Chef— and then dine at the famous Doe’s Eat We’ll end the long day at the appropri- South” semi-finalist. Place, another historic Delta eatery ately named Rest Haven, the Delta’s On Tuesday, March 19, we’ll tour that Amy C. Evans has documented for first stop for fine Lebanese food. Just pri- the historic Burrus House (complet- the Southern Foodways Alliance. or to dinner, tour guide Jimmy Thomas ed in 1861) on Hollywood Plantation On Tuesday, March 19, en route to will discourse on how the Lebanese, in- in Benoit, where Tennessee Williams’s Clarksdale, we’ll visit legendary blues- cluding his own ancestors, arrived in screenplay Baby Doll (1956) was filmed, man Robert Johnson’s gravesite, pause the Mississippi Delta. and there University of Mississippi film before the remains of the store in The Delta tour is $600 per person for and literature scholar Jack Barbera Money where Emmett Till allegedly all program activities, 11 meals, and lo- will give a talk on the film and its fas- made his tragic whistle, and visit with cal transportation. The fee does not cinating connections to ethnicity in local quilters and gospel singers at the include lodging. Remember to sign the Delta. We’ll then have lunch at Tutwiler Community Education Center. up early. A limited number of seats the Blue Levee restaurant in Rosedale. Clarksdale sites will include the Cutrer are available, and they are going fast. After lunch we’ll venture down to Mansion and St. George’s Episcopal Please use the registration form below Winterville Mounds, just north of Church, where Tom “Tennessee” to register. Greenville, to explore “the site of a Williams spent a great deal of his im- prehistoric ceremonial center built by pressionable early childhood and where continued on page 12

THE Mississippi DElTa CulTural Tour, MarCH 17-20, 2013 THE oXForD CoNFErENCE For THE BooK, MarCH 21-23, 2013 The Delta Tour is $600 per person for all program activities, daily meals, and local transportation. The fee does not include lodging. The Conference for the Book is open to the public, although three special events require reservations.

plEasE Mail rEGisTraTioN ForMs To THis aDDrEss: CENTEr For THE sTuDY oF souTHErN CulTurE THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI • P.O. BOX 1848 • UNIVERSITY, MS 38677-1848 OR FAX TO 662-915-5814 NaME ______aDDrEss ______CiTY ______sTaTE ______Zip ______HoME TElEpHoNE ______CEll ______E-Mail ______Mississippi Delta Cultural Tour Special OCB Events i would like to reserve ___ spot(s) for: i would like to reserve a spot for: ___ 3/17–20 ($600 each) ___ 3/21 uM library lunch (free) ___ please mail me a parking pass for the ___ 3/21 Cocktail Reception ($50) UM Campus for March 21-23. ___ 3/22 oxford library lunch (free)

i am making a payment of $______. ___Check, made payable to THE uNiVErsiTY oF Mississippi, is enclosed. ___Charge to ___Visa ___MasterCard Expiration Date ______account Number ______signature ______Date ______You may also sign up for the OCB online – oxfordconferenceforthebook.com Payments are refundable if written request for cancellation is postmarked no later than March 5. No refunds will be made after March 5, 2013.

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 11 continued from 11 tion. Standard rooms are priced at a 662-455-5777, or the Hampton Inn, discounted rate of $175 and include 662-455-7985. Group accommodations are of- a full Southern breakfast. Call 866- Call tour organizer Jimmy Thomas fered at the Alluvian Hotel, in down- 600-5201 and ask for the Delta Tour at 662-915-3374 for more details, or e- town Greenwood. Rooms at the rate. Additional rooms can be reserved mail him at [email protected]. Alluvian require a separate registra- at the Greenwood Best Western, The 10th Annual Mississippi Delta Cultural Tour, March 17–20

Experience the place, the people, the food, and the music in TUESDAY, MARCH 19 • GREENVILLE the cradle of American culture. 7:00 a.m. Southern Breakfast at the Alluvian Hotel 9:00 a.m. Depart for Benoit SUNDAY, MARCH 17 • GREENWOOD • Viewing of Tennessee Williams’s film Baby 3:00 p.m. Registration—Alluvian Hotel Doll en route 4:00 p.m. Turnrow Book Company 10:00 p.m. Visit Baby Doll House in Benoit • Welcome by Jimmy Thomas • Jack Barbera talks on Baby Doll and • Welcome and introductions by Jamie Tennessee Williams Kornegay Noon Lunch at Blue Levee in Rosedale • Historical introduction to the Mississippi 2:00 p.m. “The Earliest Deltans Lived Here”: A Visit to Delta by Mary Carol Miller Winterville Mounds Historic Site • “Let Your Belly Be Your Guide”: Susan 3:30 p.m. Visit William Alexander Percy Memorial Library Puckett and Langdon Clay on Eat Drink Delta: • Marion Barnwell talk, “Walker Percy in A Hungry Traveler’s Journey through the Soul of Greenville” the South • Tour the Greenville Writers’ Exhibit • “Thinking about William Faulkner’s Delta,” 5:00 p.m. Ramble to the River and a Drive through Town by Philip Gordon 7:00 p.m. Dinner at Doe’s Eat Place 6:00 p.m. Pre-Dinner Cocktails at the Alluvian bar 7:00 p.m. Dinner at Giardina’s in Greenwood WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 • CLARKSDALE 8:00 a.m. Southern Breakfast at the Alluvian Hotel MONDAY, MARCH 18 • INDIANOLA AND 9:00 a.m. Depart for Tutwiler GREENWOOD • Visit Little Zion Church and Robert 8:00 a.m. Southern Breakfast at the Alluvian Hotel Johnson’s Grave Site 9:00 a.m. Depart for Indianola • Visit Money, Mississippi 10:00 a.m. “Good Morning, Blues. Blues, How Do You 10:30 a.m. Arrive in Tutwiler / Tutwiler Community Do?” Education Center • Blues Tour of Greenwood, Moorhead, and • Quilting Display / Gospel Music Indianola, with blues scholar Scott Barretta Noon Arrive in Clarksdale / Lunch at Cutrer • Visit B.B. King Museum and Delta Mansion Interpretive Center “Documenting Tennessee,” talk by filmmaker Noon Lunch at the Legendary Juke Joint, Club Karen Kohlhaas Ebony 2:30 p.m. • Visit St. George’s Episcopal Church and 2:00 p.m. Tour of the Museum of the Mississippi Delta Rectory • War Comes to the Mississippi Delta Exhibition 3:30 p.m. Clarksdale Downtown Stroll 4:00 p.m. “Food in the Delta, Now and Then” at 5:00 p.m. Cocktails and Porch Plays: Scenes from Turnrow Book Company Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire • Hot Tamale Tasting with Amy Evans performed by Alice Walker at the home of Streeter, SFA Oral Historian Panny Mayfield • Tom McNamee on Craig Claiborne and The 6:30 p.m. Lebanese Dinner and Mile-high Pie at Man Who Changed the Way We Eat Chamoun’s Rest Haven Restaurant 6:00 p.m. Pre-Dinner Cocktails at the Alluvian bar • Talk by Jimmy Thomas on Delta Lebanese 7:00 p.m. Dinner at the Delta Bistro

Page 12 Winter 2013 The Southern Register UM Museum Announces Recent Major Gift of Southern Art to the Permanent Collection University of Mississippi Museum, gift Gordon W. Bailey Robert Saarnio, director of the ple media. A more extensive exhibi- University of Mississippi Museum and tion, also to be curated by Thomas, is Historic Houses, is pleased to con- planned for later this year. firm that a major gift of artworks has “All of the artists in this exhibition been added to the permanent collec- are Southerners, and their work can be tion. Noted Los Angeles art collector understood as ‘folk,’” Thomas said, “but Gordon W. Bailey, a staunch advocate it’s important to understand and ac- of Southern vernacular artists, made knowledge that these artists’ creations the generous donation, which includes have a rightful place within the canon works by Edwin Jeffery Jr., Jimmy Lee of American art. It’s not incorrect to Sudduth, Charlie Lucas, Sulton Rogers, understand the work within the con- and Purvis Young. Through Bailey’s gen- texts of race, region, or religion, but for erosity these works of self-taught art at too long the work of these self-taught the University Museum will gain region- artists has been marginalized. The cre- al and national attention, and visitors of ative process varies little, if any, be- all ages will be able to share in this gift. tween fine art and folk art. The differ- “The Museum is exceptionally ence here, as I see it, is that these artists pleased to share with our audiences are merely untrained, not less skilled.” these highly compelling works by major The impetus for the gift came from American self-taught artists and, in the Bailey’s collaboration with Thomas process, celebrate their having come on the Folk Art volume of The New to our permanent collection in recent Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, set for months through the generosity of their publication in May 2013. Bailey con- donor,” said Saarnio. tributed entries on self-taught artists An exhibition, Independent Expression: Sam Doyle and Herbert Singleton to Self-taught Art of the Late 20th Century, the volume, and he contributed imag- organized by guest curator James G. es from his collection with which to il- Thomas Jr., associate director for publi- lustrate the book. “Mr. Bailey has been cations at the Center for the Study of an enormous help to us on this Folk Art Southern Culture, is scheduled from volume,” said Thomas, “and his dedi- January 22 to April 6, 2013, and will Christ (Sermon), Purvis Young, 1980s, cation to the arts is further exempli- feature captivating works in multi- mixed media on wood fied through this gift to the University Museum.” In conjunction with the exhibition, the Museum will offer several activities for audiences of all ages, including a gallery talk by Thomas on Wednesday, February 6, 2013, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. and “Express Yourself!” Family Activity Day inspired by the exhibition for families with children ages three and up on Saturday, February 16, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. to noon. The University Museum is at the intersection of University Avenue and Fifth Street. Hours are 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, and admis- sion is free. For more information, visit www.museum.olemiss.edu or call 662-915-7073.

Alyssa Yuen

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 13 Alumni in Academics

From new publications to job news to paper prizes and lots of Maarten Zwiers (MA 2007) conference presentations, Southern Studies alumni and current students are making plenty of news as scholars. The publication of a new book by alumnus Jay Langdale (MA 1996) stands out as especially newsworthy. The ideas for Superfluous Southerners: Cultural Conservatism in the South, 1920–1990, published in late 2012 by the University of Missouri Press, began in Jay’s thesis work in Southern Studies and continued as part of his history PhD dissertation at the University of Florida. Jay teaches history and is coordinator of the honors program at Andrew College in Cuthbert, Georgia, near where he and Jennifer Bryant Langdale (MA 1995) live in Eufaula, Alabama. In fall 2012 Maarten Zwiers (MA 2007) successfully de- fended his dissertation, “James Eastland and the Shadow of Southern Democrats,” at the University of Groningen. Maarten began studying Eastland while an MA student working in the Eastland Papers in Special Collections at the J.D. Williams Library. Maarten is teaching contemporary history at Groningen. Pete Slade (MA 1999), who teaches in the religion department at Ashland College, received news that a book he coedited on the work of Mississippi activist John Perkins will be published in 2013. Jimmy Thomas (MA 2007) published a chapter, “Mississippi Mahjar: The Lebanese Immigration Experience in the Mississippi Delta,” in Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi, a 2012 collection edited by Shana Walton and Barbara Carpenter. Abbott (MA 2006) has a new position at the Alabama Digital Among academic news in the past year or two, Molly Humanities Center at the University of Alabama. Bert Way McGehee (MA 2000) received notice that she has received (MA 1999) teaches history at Kennesaw State University, and tenure at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. Amy Clukey (BA 2002) teaches English at the University of Robin Ferris (MA 2001) teaches history in a new position at Louisville. Several Southern Studies alumni teach from situa- Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, and Rob Hawkins (MA 2005) tions other than conventional faculty positions. For example, is in the history department at Bradley University. Franky SFA oral historian Amy C. Evans (MA 2002) teaches a work- shop on foodways documentary field- work at the University of Mississippi every summer, and Mary Amelia Taylor (MA 2011), marketing/web communications specialist at Judson College, teaches a required course called Women in Society. Pursuing his dissertation on Cherokee history at the University of Georgia, Josh Haynes (MA 2001) presented papers at recent meetings of the Southern Historical Association and the Trail of Tears Association in Georgia. Comprehensive exams mark turning points in academic life that only people who take them can understand. Alan Pike (MA 2009) and Ben Gilstrap (MA 2009) have recently finished their exams at Emory and the University of Mississippi. Elizabeth Oliphant (BA 2008) at Pittsburgh, I’Nasah Crockett Second from right, Rob Hawkins (MA 2005) (MA 2009) at Vanderbilt, Xaris

Page 14 Winter 2013 The Southern Register Martinez (MA 2011) at the University of North Carolina, Keri Edwards (MA 2012) at the University of Mississippi, Cathryn Stout (MA 2011) at St. Louis University, and Teresa Parker Farris (MA 2005) at Tulane are among the Southern Studies alumni taking or preparing for their exams. Alan Pike is one of several University of Mississippi alums who have worked for the journal Southern Spaces at Emory. At least two current Southern Studies undergraduate majors won attention in 2012 through their academic work on blues issues. A paper by Neal McMillin, “Sexuality and the Blues: Comparison of B.B. King’s Autobiography Blues All around Me and Eugene Redmond’s poem ‘Double Clutch Lover,’” won the university’s award for the best nonfiction essay in the Southern Literary Festival Creative Writing Contest, and he will present the paper at the Southern Literary Festival in Columbus, Georgia. Yakeo Takada was a semifinalist for the Muhammad Ali Award for Writing on Ethics for a paper on copyright issues and the blues. The 2013 Southern American Studies Association program in Charleston featured papers by seven Southern Studies MA students, plus one by an alum. Papers, many of them part of Southern Studies MA theses, included Michelle Bright’s “The Owlcar Named Non-Normative Desire: Tennessee Williams’s Use of Queer Birds to Expand the Boundaries of Freedom,” Kaitlyn Hodges’s “With Liberty and Justice for All: The Problems of United States Citizenship for Native Americans,” Jillian McClure’s “James Meredith or ‘Forevermore’: The University of Mississippi’s Civil Rights Memorial, 1995– 2011,” Madelyn Duffey’s “From Coronation to Cornyation: Kings, ‘Queens,’ and Royalty in Fiesta San Antonio,” Steven Saunders’s “The New ‘American’ Gothic: The South in the X-Files,” Joseph Thompson’s “Cyber Rebels: Civil War Memory and Conservative Politics on the Internet,” and Mel Lasseter’s “‘We Are Not Your Savages’: Insider and Outsider Definitions of Liberty in Justified’s Harlan County.” Alumna About 20 faculty members have taught in Southern Amy Schmidt (MA 2007), a University of Arkansas PhD Studies before moving on to other positions, and readers in English now teaching at Lyon College, is giving a paper of the Southern Register are likely to be intrigued by some entitled “‘That Story Will Get You’: Neo-slave Narratives, of their news. Nancy Bercaw has a new position as a cu- National Myths, and Legacies of Global Exploitation.” rator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Several second-year Southern Studies students, including American History and Culture. Bob Brinkmeyer is the Chelsea Wright and Meghan Holmes, are making presen- new director of the Institute of Southern Studies at the tations at the Center’s Brown Bag series in the spring, and University of South Carolina, and Tom Rankin is di- some students and recent alumni, including Jesse Wright rector of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, (MA 2010), Tyler Keith (MA 2011), and Bingo Gunter (MA which has a new MFA in Experimental and Documentary 2011), will be presenting material at the Center’s Music of the Arts. Bill Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor South Conference in April. of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Three current graduate students are giving academic papers Hill and associate director of UNC’s Center for the Study based on foodways scholarship. Paige Prather will be present- of the American South, and Alan Gallay has a new posi- ing her work on food justice in the Vietnamese American com- tion as Lyndon B. Johnson Chair in U.S. History at Texas munity of New Orleans East at the Global Gulf Conference Christian University. Zandria Robinson teaches sociology at Tulane in February. Erin Scott shares her paper “Big and at the University of Memphis, and Justin Nystrom teach- Bright: The Food of the State Fair of Texas” at the Southwest/ es history and is codirector of the Center for the Study of Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association New Orleans at Loyola. We welcome Jennifer Stollman, Conference in Albuquerque in February, and Roy Button who has returned to the University of Mississippi to take presents his paper on urban farming at the annual meeting of a position with the William Winter Institute for Racial the Agricultural History Society in Banff, Alberta, Canada, Reconciliation. in June.

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 15 Southern Foodways Alliance Feature Documentary Pride & Joy Debuts

Over the last decade the SFA has col- Joe York lected more than 700 oral histories and produced more than 30 films. We have trained our lenses on North Carolina pitmasters and Louisiana bartenders. We’ve captured the stories of Alabama shrimpers and Arkansas caviar fisher- men. We’ve chronicled the work of Georgia cattlemen and Tennessee fried chicken cooks. Now we are pleased to announce Pride & Joy, a feature-length documentary aimed at chronicling the depth and breadth of Southern food culture. The film is directed by Joe York and Allan Benton produced by John T. Edge and Andy Harper. In this hour-long documentary, we fo- traits of people and places while asking identity? How and why do traditional cus on the tradition-bearers of Southern important questions about our common foodways endure? food culture. We present intimate por- culture: What do foodways tell us about

Joe York D D D Kendall Schoelles For Pride & Joy, Joe York traveled from Virginia to Texas to tell contemporary stories of men and women who grow, prepare, and serve Southern food and drink. Pride & Joy debuted in October at the annual Southern Foodways Symposium. In December it screened at special events in Atlanta and Brooklyn, cohosted by Garden & Gun magazine. There will be plenty of opportunities to catch Pride & Joy in 2013. It will show at the Charleston Wine and Food Festival on March 1 and at numerous film festivals, too. Soon thereaf- Joe York ter, it will premiere on South Carolina Helen Turner Educational Television, with cover- age to follow on national PBS affiliate stations.

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Below is a roster of subjects. Several of them are also SFA oral history subjects, whose stories can be accessed at southernfoodways.org. We invite you to learn more about these individuals, and we hope that you will have an opportunity to watch their stories come together in Pride & Joy.

Page 16 Winter 2013 The Southern Register Dori Sanders D Ida Mamusu of Richmond, Virginia— restaurant owner and cook

D Lee Ross of DeWitt, Arkansas— caviar fisherman

D Dori Sanders of York County, South Carolina—novelist and peach farmer

D Kendall Schoelles of Apalachicola, Florida—oysterman

D Rodney Scott of Hemingway, South Carolina—barbecue pitmaster Joe York D Slovacek’s Market in Snook, D Rhoda Adams of Lake Village, D Ben Lanier of Wewahitchka, Texas—purveyor of kolaches Arkansas—restaurant owner and Florida—beekeeper cook D Thomas Stewart of New Orleans, D Geno Lee of Jackson, Mississippi— Louisiana—oyster shucker D Allan Benton of Madisonville, restaurant owner and cook Tennessee—curer of country ham D Helen Turner of Brownsville, and bacon D Gerald Lemoine and friends of Tennessee—barbecue pitmaster Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana—home D Bill Best of Berea, Kentucky—farm- butchers and cooks D Julian Van Winkle of Frankfort, er and seed saver Kentucky—whiskey maker Courtesy Joe York D Leah Chase of New Orleans, Louisiana—restaurant owner and cook

D Cherokee Baptist Church in Cherokee, North Carolina—host of an annual potluck supper

D The Coleman family of Coffeeville, Mississippi—hunters and cooks

D The Colleton-Green family of Awendaw, South Carolina—hunters and cooks

D Earl Cruze of Strawberry Plains, Tennessee—dairy farmer

D The Hardy family of Hawkinsville, Georgia—peanut farmers

D Will Harris of Bluffton, Georgia— livestock farmer

D Martha Hawkins of Montgomery, Alabama—civil rights advocate, restaurant owner, and cook

D Bruce and Sam Jones of Ayden, North Carolina—barbecue pitmasters Joe York in the field

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 17 David Wharton, Center Director of Documentary Studies, Publishes Book of Photography

The small towns of the American South are local places of ordinary life. Most of them lie off the main roads, and most travelers see only the strip developments that line the roadways and fail to enter the historical center of a town. These places, consequently, have become invisible in the dominant geographic image of the American South—obscured by the fancy antebellum heirlooms, the blighted landscapes of poverty and de- spair, the beaches, or the gleaming tow- ers of modern cities that hold sway over our mental maps of the region. Yet, for many residents, the small towns are at the center of things and are impregnat- ed with the history and meaning of their lives. David Wharton entered these townscapes to make photographs of their lingering presence in the landscape and over many years of work has produced a compelling visual record of them. His photographs appear in his new book, Small Town South. It is the single most Thompson Publishing George F. comprehensive modern photographic survey of small Southern towns. it them, captures the spaces they create Moreover, as Wharton explains in the Wharton’s purpose, though, is not over time. His photographs are no ele- introduction to his book, “small towns simply to provide an encyclopedic cov- gy. These are not dead places. Wharton’s are places that are constantly changing, erage of a particular kind of town land- photographs show them to have land- physically and otherwise.” Small Town scape. Rather, he concentrates his vision scapes of personality—with many fi ne South provides a visual record of the ten- on what makes these towns signifi cant qualities, as well as blemishes—and sion that lies in the passage of time in a in the lives of the people who inhab- to contain both aspiration and decay. particular place. According to Wharton,

David Wharton “Photography’s ability to stop the visual fl ow of time and preserve a scene for a thoughtful examination and contempla- tion is a primary source of its . . . power.” The book is fi lled with images that have both an artistic and documentary quality. Consider, for example, the photograph on page 95 of Opelousas, Louisiana. On the one hand, it is a beautiful image, with superior composition and light, and also simultaneously contrasts the prosperous railroad history of the town, as depicted in the mural, with just the hint of a ramshackle train sta- tion in the background, suggesting that today a rail link may no longer defi ne the town, or even exist there at all. The relationship between past and present is left ambiguous by the picture. Many of the photographs in the book juxtapose Opelousas, Louisiana, 2009 old and new to forge the sense of passing time within a picture’s scene. A va-

Page 18 Winter 2013 The Southern Register David Wharton ent day. In his “Notes on the Plates,” which appears after the gallery of photographs, Wharton explains, “most of the photographs could easily be from other small Southern towns.” With this ad- mission, Wharton introduces the con- tention that perhaps there exists a sort of small Southern town archetype, at least in terms of a visual character. Certainly, looking at a picture such as the one that appears on page 127 of New Albany, Mississippi, which portrays a downtown intersection, one could be in “Anywhere, Small Town South.” Other photographs, however, show a more particular geography: words with a clear cultural conno- tation, architecture that has a distinc- tive vernacular style, topography, public art depicting a rooted sensibility, or place Abbeville, Louisiana, 2003 names that pinpoint a specific location on the map of the South. The idea that small Southern towns simultaneously riety of landscape features are used to- adorned side of a closed building—per- evoke singularity and conform to a gen- ward this end—signage, vehicles, archi- haps a restaurant because four salt and eral type introduces another kind of vi- tecture, and artifacts of abandonment or pepper shakers gleam through its win- sual tension in Wharton’s photographs: is prosperity. There are few people in these dow from their place atop a bare coun- modern life creating everywhere a land- photographs—just the occasional pedes- ter top. The reflection in the window scape of sameness? trian walking by or someone passing by of the street and store frontage oppo- As a document, Small Town South con- in a moving vehicle. Their presence is site suggests an emptiness to the town— tains images of high artistic and techni- suggested, instead, by what they impart but, still, those shakers look new and as cal merit. Wharton makes his photo- upon the landscape—homes and plac- if they are in current use. Where are the graphs using negative film and medium- es of business, emblems, infrastructures, diners? It is unsettling. format cameras. He creates test prints in gardens and front yards, monuments, in- Despite the unique qualities of each a wet chemical darkroom and then scans stitutions, and written notices, leaving it town portrayed in the book, in their sum the chosen negatives for digital printing. to the viewer what to make of them. The is recognition of commonality. As if these The results are exquisite black and white photograph on page 111 of Abbeville, towns all sprang from a single source and prints with a high resolution and excel- Louisiana, for instance, depicts an un- followed a similar trajectory to the pres- lent tonal quality. The pictures are beau- tifully reproduced in the book on weighty David Wharton paper that has a silky feel to it. The bind- ing is excellent with pages lying flat when opened. Wharton’s words in the book help guide the reader toward a fuller understanding of his pictures, which he de- scribes as a “single, long poem,” in which each of the picture galleries appears as “a stanza and the individual images as single lines within that stanza.” Viewing this book, I felt an emotional tug running through it that might be likened to a po- etic narrative—evocative rather than ex- planatory and where much is left to the reader’s imagination, which is as it should be in such a beautiful book. Small Town South. By David Wharton. Staunton, Virginia: George F. Thompson Publishing, 2012. 159 pages. $50.00 cloth. New Albany, Mississippi, 2009 David Zurick

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 19 Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas, July 21–25, 2013

As detailed in the previous issue of the Detroiter Jamaal May Register, the 40th annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference will explore intersections between Faulkner’s work and that of a distinguished group of black literary predecessors, cohorts, and successors from the U.S. and elsewhere in the western hemisphere. Keynote speakers for this year’s conference in- Rachel Eliza Griffiths clude Kenneth Warren (University of Chicago), Thadious M. Davis Randall Horton (University of Pennsylvania), George Hutchinson (Cornell University), and James Smethurst (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). A special conference session will be devoted to remem- and Bucknell University, where he was bering the life and evaluating the work named the 2011–2013 Stadler Fellow. of noted Faulkner scholar and confer- There he hosts a poetry slam and serves ence stalwart Noel E. Polk. Other speak- as associate editor of West Branch, while ers and panelists will be chosen from the also acting as series editor, graphic de- conference call for papers, and the gath- signer, and webmaster for the Organic ering will again feature the perennial- Weapon Arts Chapbook Series. ly popular “Teaching Faulkner” sessions Another featured event at this led by James Carothers, Theresa Towner, Rachel Eliza Griffiths year’s conference is a reception at the Charles Peek, and Terrell Tebbetts. Randall Horton is the recipient of the University Museum for French photog- An exclusive poetry chapbook being Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the rapher Alain Desvergnes, who taught compiled for conference registrants will Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, and most photography at the university in the ear- feature the work of African American recently a National Endowment of the ly 1960s and captured the physical and poets responding to Faulkner’s literary, Arts Fellowship in Literature. Randall is social landscape of the area in a stunning cultural, and historical legacy. Three of a Cave Canem Fellow, a member of the series of black and white photographs, these poets will give readings from their Affrilachian Poets, and a member of The many of which were collected in the work at a special writers’ panel. Rachel Symphony: The House that Etheridge 1990 volume Yoknapatawpha: The Land Eliza Griffiths, a visual artist as well as Built. He is assistant professor of English of William Faulkner (Marval). Desvergnes a poet, is the author of three collections at the University of New Haven. An will reflect on his Mississippi experienc- of poetry, including Mule & Pear (New excerpt from his memoir, Roxbury, has es, including the Yoknapatawpha proj- Issues Poetry & Prose), which was select- been published by Kattywompus Press. ect, at the reception; a special exhibi- ed for the 2012 Inaugural Poetry Award Triquarterly/Northwestern University tion of his photos will be on display at by the Black Caucus American Library Press will publish his latest poetry col- University Museum throughout the con- Association. Griffiths was featured in O, lection, Pitch Dark Anarchy, this spring. ference week. The Oprah Magazine’s first poetry is- Detroiter Jamaal May is the author Discount rates for the conference are sue as an emerging poet to watch and of Hum (Alice James Books, 2013), available for groups of five or more stu- is the recipient of fellowships from the winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. dents. Inexpensive dormitory housing Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, His poems appear and are forthcom- is available for all registrants. Contact the Millay Colony, the Vermont Studio ing in New England Review, Indiana Robert Fox at [email protected] for de- Center, and other organizations. She is Review, Verse Daily, Callaloo, and The tails. There are also a limited number of widely known for her literary portraits Believer, among other journals. A grad- waivers of registration for graduate stu- and is currently directing the documen- uate of Warren Wilson’s MFA program dents. Contact Jay Watson at jwatson@ tary Beware the Dog: Poetry, Race, an for writers, May has received fellow- olemiss.edu for details. American Movement. Griffiths teaches at ships and scholarships from the Bread Sarah Lawrence College. Loaf Writers Conference, Cave Canem, Jay Watson

Page 20 Winter 2013 The Southern Register Music of the Porter L. Fortune Jr. History South Conference: Innovation and Symposium, February 21–22, 2013 Experimental Music “European Empires in the American South” The Porter L. Fortune Jr. History Symposium began as an annual conference on and the South Southern history in 1975. In 1983 it was named for Porter L. Fortune Jr., chancel- On Wednesday and Thursday, April 3 lor emeritus, to honor his contributions to the success of the symposium. Past events and 4, 2013, the Center presents its an- have examined topics such as the southern political tradition, childhood, religion, nual Music of the South Conference. and the role of gender in shaping public power. The conference seeks to gather grad- This year’s symposium has as its theme “European Empires in the American uate students, faculty, and indepen- South” and brings to campus several scholars who are engaged in research related to dent scholars to share current research the involvement of the British, French, and Spanish in territories that would later on the culture, meaning, and practic- be known as the South. Several of the papers presented at the symposium will fo- es surrounding music in and from the cus on the interaction of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans. Symposium American South. This year’s conference events are free and open to the public. explores the theme of “Innovation and The annual conference is a two-day event, which is free of charge and open to the Experimental Music and the South.” general public. Specifically, the conference will consider a number of interrelated issues: How Thursday, February 21 does innovative music originate in the 5:30–7:00 Opening Reception South? Are there situations in which the 7:30–9:00 Alejandra Dubcovsky (Yale University) South’s established and much-celebrat- “New Networks, African Slaves, and the Reimaging of Information ed musical genres (jazz, blues, country, in the Colonial South, 1720–1739” rock ’n’ roll, rap, bluegrass, gospel) make it difficult for people to make innovative Friday, February 22 music? When and why do musical in- 8:30–9:00 Coffee novators choose to leave the South, or 9:00–10:30 Allison Margaret Bigelow (Omohundro Institute) come to the South, or use those estab- “Colonial Industry and the Language of Empire: Silkworks in the lished genres as a basis for innovation? Virginia Colony, 1607–1655” The Music of the South Conference Jonathan Eacott (University of California, Riverside ) will feature academic panels, photo ex- “Urbanity and the Endurance of Global Empire: Charleston and hibitions, films about music, and live Calcutta before and after the American Revolution” music performance. At press time, the 10:45–12:15 Denise I. Bossy (University of North Florida) schedule includes an intimate musi- “Slavery and Empire: Indian and African Slaveries in Spanish, cal performance by roots and blues art- Muskogee, and British Geopolitical and Economic Expansion in the ist Valerie June at the Studio Theatre Southeast, 1565–1715” of the Gertrude Ford Center for the Joshua A. Piker (University of Oklahoma) Performing Arts on Wednesday, April “The Empire, the Emperor, and the Empress: The Interesting Case of 3. June was featured in the November Mrs. Mary Bosomworth” 2012 issue of Living Blues highlight- 12:15–1:30 Lunch ing the “Next Generation of Acoustic 1:30–3:00 Alexandre Dubé (McMaster University) Blues.” Other presentations will exam- “The Seller King: Revisiting Control and Authority in French ine Southern recording studios, African Louisiana” American gospel quartets, aspects of Travis Glasson (Temple University) the music scenes in New Orleans and “‘Good Christians and Good Subjects’: Nicholas Trott’s Vision of Clarksdale, the unifying quality of English Empire, 1699–1740” minstrelsy between the North and the 3:15–4:45 Christopher Morris (University of Texas, Arlington) South after the Civil War, music of the “The American South in the French Empire: Les Étés Long et 1970s, and some contemporary perform- Chaud” ers. Additional panels and live musical Robert A. Olwell (University of Texas, Austin) performances will be added in the com- “Incidental Imperialist: John Bartram’s Expedition to Florida and the ing weeks. Most events will be held in Intersection of Science and Empire in British-American Southeast of the Faulkner Room of the J.D. Williams the 1760s” Library. Further information and up- 5:00–6:00 Kathleen A. Duval (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) dates about the conference are available Discussion of the papers online at southernstudies.olemiss.edu.

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 21 Make ’em Laugh: Comedy Studies in Academia

In the fall of 2012 I was afforded a wonderful opportunity by Courtesy James Thomas the Center for the Study of Southern Culture teach a course titled Comedy, Race, and American Popular Culture. With an emphasis on performance comedy, my four graduate students and I embarked on a journey that attempted to answer the following questions: What role does comedy play in the enabling and constraining of race in the American South? What role does the American South play in comedy and humor? I first came to comedy studies as an undergraduate, working at a comedy club in middle Missouri to pay my way through school. I continued to hold onto this gig throughout graduate school, and what started off as a way to pay for school, rent, and bills while also assuming some semblance of a social life soon became a way to think sociologically about an otherwise taken-for-granted form of popular culture. In my more than eight years of working and researching live comedy, I’m confident in stating that comedy, and in particular standup comedy, is serious political and cultural business. From its early beginnings in vaudeville and its popular- izing of the Sambo and Jim Crow characters in minstrel shows in the late 19th century, to its evolution as a form of “truth- telling” during the movements of the late 1950s through the early 1970s, to its current heterogeneous complexity as both constrainer and enabler of social ills, American comedy has transformed alongside of and in response to a number of social and cultural events. All the while, the comic, and comedy more generally, continues to be one of our most accessible and palatable forums for social commentary. Yet, while other scholars have noted comedy’s more general relationship to the American cultural milieu, few scholars demonstrate an interest in or understanding of the relationship between comedy James “JT” Thomas and the American South—either as a geopolitical construct, a discursive regime, or a narrative trope. For this past semester’s graduate seminar with my Southern which to think critically about the intersections of race, com- Studies students, how comedy is put together, organized, and edy, and the narrative tropes of the American South. diffused became our focus in the beginning. We started with As we were thinking through the relationship of the Sigmund Freud’s seminal treatise, Jokes and their Relationship to American South to American comedy, and vice versa, many the Unconscious, followed by Murray Davis’s semiotic analy- of our class conversations centered on the concept of ambiva- sis of comedy and humor, What’s So Funny?, and then John lence. Though not unique to the American South, how am- Limon’s Standup Comedy in Theory, where he argues all com- bivalence is put together (i.e., what discursive and nondis- edy is about abjection. Freud and Limon framed psychoanal- cursive elements produce its effect) in the Southern context ysis as one framework from which to interpret the structure became a central question for my students throughout the re- and impact of standup comedy, while Davis’s work is much mainder of the course. We came to discover, for instance, that more sociologically oriented, focusing on the structure and the use of Sambo and Jim Crow as characters in popular min- use-functions of jokes and humor. strel shows alleviated many Southern whites’ fears of black From these readings and our class meetings, my students male subjectivity, in part because whites could create these discovered that, while difficult to pin down, psychoanalysis characters as they saw fit. However, the movement of these remains an important critical paradigm from which to ad- shows throughout the North, where creative freedom became dress social formations, processes, and practices, including the extended to nonwhite producers, playwrights, and audiences, role of humor in social interactions. To my students’ surprise, meant that, in the case of the Jim Crow character, a particu- Freud’s and Limon’s texts served as a foundation for many of lar degree of agency became central to the stage production. our subsequent readings and became an important place from Finally, we came to understand that while the specific

Page 22 Winter 2013 The Southern Register form of the minstrel show has by and large died off in the post–civil rights era, remnants of its ambivalent ten- Eudora Welty Awards sion between black bodies being “stood up” and black bodies doing standup re- Do you have a son who just may be main. This is evident in both the crit- the next Richard Wright? A daughter ical voices of nonwhite comics like who can channel her inner O’Connor Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, with a fl ick of a pen? If so, encourage Chris Rock, and David Chappelle, and these young people to enter stories and their co-opting by mass audiences who poems for consideration in the Center often misinterpret, or simply don’t get, for the Study of Southern Culture’s their brand of racial politics. In addi- annual Eudora Welty Awards. tion, while the caricature of Southern Students must be Mississippi resi- rednecks provided by certain mem- dents. The competition is open to bers of the popular Blue Collar Comedy 9th through 12th graders, and writing Tour reifi es a particular hegemonic ex- should be submitted through students’ pression of Southern pride (i.e., white high schools. Short stories should pride), other caricatures of Southern not exceed 3,000 words, and poetry rednecks, like those of the popular car- should not exceed 100 lines. Schools toon Squidbillies, illuminates the absur- may submit one entry per category. Kay Bell dity of this phenomenon. Winning students will be notifi ed at By the end of our semester, the stu- least a month prior to award presen- select the winners. Application and dents not only demonstrated a great- tation. The fi rst-place prize is $500, submission requirements will be sent er understanding of the importance of and the second-place prize is $250. to all Mississippi public and private comedy and humor to American cul- The winners will also be recognized schools. If you know a Mississippi tural life, but also, through their fi nal at the opening of the 2013 Faulkner student currently enrolled in high papers, were able to analyze the rela- & Yoknapatawpha Conference on the school outside of the state or who is tionship between various artifacts of University campus in July. homeschooled, please email lspittma@ the American South and “Southern” Each entry should be accompanied olemiss.edu or call 662-915-3369 for a humor, contextualized. The students by the entry form and postmarked copy. To see a list of past winners or wrote phenomenal analyses on a vari- by April 15, 2013. Faculty from the to download the application, visit ety of topics: from the aforementioned University of Mississippi English southernstudies.olemiss.edu/2013/ caricatures of Southern, working-class Department will judge the entries and 01/08/eudora-welty-awards/. white masculinities in Squidbillies; to the importance of comedy and humor in the musical tradition of the blues; to the ambivalence of gender, sexuality, race, and region on display in Tyler Southern Literary Trail Events Perry’s stage performance of Diary of a The Southern Literary Trail, a tri-state collaboration of Southern towns, celebrates Mad Black Woman; to the specters of 20th-century Southern writers and playwrights through a variety of events in their Jim Crow and Sambo in Oz, HBO’s home communities. A partial list of Trailfest events for 2013 is listed below. critically acclaimed series on prison life. More information on the Southern Literary Trail and Trailfest 2013 can be found Overall, I was both proud of the stu- online at southernliterarytrail.org. dents and intellectually energized by the potential of comedy studies dem- • Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, Natchez, Mississippi, February 21–24 onstrated in their essays. The task now, • Historic Mobile Preservation Society’s Annual Homes Tour, Mobile, Alabama, as I see it, is to continue to push them March 15–16 and others toward the recognition that • Mississippi Delta Cultural Tour, Mississippi Delta, March 17–20 comedy is not simply “entertainment” • Oxford Conference for the Book, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, or a way to distract oneself from the March 21–23 happenings of contemporary social life. • Southern Literary Festival, Columbus, Georgia, March 28–30 Instead, it’s a mode of transportation • Spring Pilgrimage of Homes, Columbus, Mississippi, March 31–April 13 through social life—a way to see the so- • Ralph Ellison Lecture, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, April 10 cial, the cultural, and the political, crit- • Seventh Annual Creative Arts Festival at Jackson State University, presented by ically, while at the same time, if we’re the Margaret Walker Alexander Center, Friday and Saturday, April 12–13 lucky, having a laugh. • The Alabama Book Festival, Montgomery, Alabama, April 20 • Celebrating Byron Herbert Reece through the Arts, Blairsville, Georgia, at the James M. Thomas (JT) Byron Herbert Reece Farm, May 18

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 23 Southern Studies Musicians Continue to Make News Two alums have new recordings, Devil’s Rope by the Tim Lee 3 (including Susan Bauer Lee) and Black Highway by Tyler Keith & the Apostles. Caroline Herring’s Camilla won several awards and appeared on several Best of 2012 lists. Blues duo Satan and Adam, with Southern Studies professor Adam Gussow, will be playing at Jazz Fest in New Orleans. Jake Fussell has two steady gigs in Oxford, one on Monday evenings and the other on Thursdays performing on Thacker Mountain Radio. A Chicago publi- Jumped the Broom cation named Angela James, the stage name of alumna The Center for the Study of Southern Culture extends Angela Watkins, as one of that city’s artists to watch in congratulations to Elizabeth Oliphant (BA, 2008) and 2013. Jamison Hollister has been on tour as a member of Nate Kosub (MA, 2005). Elizabeth and Nate were mar- Lisa Marie Presley’s band. And though he’s no musician, ried on October 27, 2012, at the courthouse in Oxford Scott Barretta deserves mention for his new book, The with a reception at Off Square Books. Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Izzy Young (Scarecrow Press).

CONTRIBUTORS

Sara Camp Arnold is the publications editor for the Office of Media and Public Relations at the University of Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA), which includes the Mississippi. editorship of Gravy, the SFA’s quarterly food letter. Ted Ownby, director of the Center, holds a joint appoint- Brett J. Bonner is the editor of Living Blues magazine. ment in Southern Studies and history.

Judith H. Bonner is senior curator/curator of art at The Justin Isaac Rogers is a second-year history graduate Historic New Orleans Collection and is co-volume editor, student. with Estill Curtis Pennington, of the Art & Architecture volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. James M. Thomas is a visiting assistant professor of sociology and Southern Studies. Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. is the director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, Jay Watson is a professor of English at the University of where he is the Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English Mississippi. His publications include Forensic Fictions: The and the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lawyer Figure in Faulkner, Faulkner and Whiteness, and Professor of Southern Studies. Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893–1985. Mark Camarigg is the former assistant editor and current publications manager for Living Blues magazine. Gretchen Wood is finishing her MA in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. During her 20-year hiatus from Jill Cooley is an adjunct assistant professor of Southern higher education, she worked in the music business in vari- Studies. ous capacities involving sales, broadcast, and print journalism.

Joan Wylie Hall teaches in the English Department Alyssa Yuen is membership, events, and communications at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of coordinator for the University of Mississippi Museum and Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction and articles Historic Houses. on Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Grace King, Frances Newman, and other authors. David Zurick is Foundation Professor of Geography at Eastern Kentucky University and author of Southern Rick Hynum is a communications specialist in the Crossings: Where Geography and Photography Meet.

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Black, White, and Green: in interesting and sometimes unex- Farmers Markets, Race, and pected ways. the Green Economy Alkon fi nds that at the North Berkeley Farmers Market, the mar- By Alison Hope Alkon. ket managers, vendors, and custom- Athens: University of Georgia ers value environmental sustainabil- Press, 2012. 206 pages. $69.95 ity over all else. All of the produce cloth, $24.95 paperback, and sold at the market must be organic, $24.95 ebook. and prepared goods must consist of at least 80 percent organic ingredi- In this book, part of the UGA Press ents. Farmers charge premium pric- series on “Geographies of Justice and es, and customers are willing to pay. Social Transformation,” sociologist They are not only grocery shopping, Alison Hope Alkon examines two but also buying into values that are very different farmers markets in the typically associated with the tenets of San Francisco Bay Area. Her eth- the mostly white, mostly affl uent food nographic work at the two markets movement: protecting the environ- yields important insights about race, ment, supporting small farms instead class, food access, social justice, and of industrial agriculture, and knowing sustainability (economic, environ- where one’s food comes from. mental, and cultural). Though her At the West Oakland Farmers fi eldwork is confi ned to the Bay Area, Market, on the other hand, the fo- Alkon’s fi ndings can and should be hood known locally as the “gourmet cus is on social justice. The custom- heeded by farmers markets and relat- ghetto” for its proximity to higher base is racially diverse, but most of ed “food justice” programs across the end, predominately organic food and the vendors are African American. nation, including in the South. wine retailers and restaurants such as (It’s worth noting that of these farm- Alkon raises thoughtful questions the famed Chez Panisse. The West ers are fi rst- or second-generation about the “green economy”—that is, Oakland Farmers Market is situated transplants from the South.) Both an economic system that values eco- underneath an elevated train track in black and white market patrons nomic growth, environmental protec- the Lower Bottoms area of Oakland, say that supporting black farmers is tion, and social justice—and its par- where, in recent years, crime has ris- their primary reason for shopping at ticipants. Is there really such a thing en and black-owned small businesses the market. Informal conversations as “green capitalism,” or is it a contra- have given way to convenience and among farmers and marketgoers, diction in terms? Can the free mar- liquor stores. as well as special events—includ- ket ever be a force for environmental Early in the book, Alkon posits ing a Juneteenth celebration—em- protection and social justice? What “race and class have much to do with phasize racial identity, pride in one’s are the conditions for participation in the ways food systems operate, pro- African American heritage, and so- the green economy, and what kinds of ducing uneven access to food, health, cial activism. Interestingly, Alkon merchants and consumers value this and economic opportunities.” She learns that many of the market’s cus- system? goes on to analyze the distinct val- tomers come from outside the neigh- There are many farmers markets in ues, goals, and vendor and customer borhood specifi cally to shop at West the Bay Area; Alkon chooses to fo- demographics of the two markets. Of Oakland, and regardless of race they cus on the North Berkeley Farmers course, the two farmers markets share tend to have more formal education Market and the West Oakland some basic similarities: they are both and slightly higher incomes than Farmers Market because of their strik- open-air venues where vendors sell the neighborhood average. Though ing contrasts. The North Berkeley fresh produce and homemade pre- bringing fresh food to a low-income Farmers Market is located in an af- pared foods directly to the consumer. community is one of the stated goals fl uent, primarily white neighbor- Beyond that, they differ signifi cantly, of the West Oakland Farmers Market,

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Alkon notes that the “absence of works are better known than their low-income African Americans [at own visage. Artworks reproduced in the market] . . . many of whom are the text run the full gamut, including women and children, is sometimes portraits, landscapes, genre scenes, lost amid this emphasis on race.” and still lifes. Certainly, no farmers market can Throughout his essays Pennington be all things to all people. Alkon’s re- provides the historical context for search demonstrates that some goals “Southern exceptionalism,” fi rst cit- will inevitably be prioritized at the ex- ing iconic images produced by histor- pense of others. Similarly, defi nitions ical luminary Michelangelo, and cit- of the “green economy” vary according national icons like Grant Wood’s ing to the values and needs of a given American Gothic and Gilbert Stuart’s community. It seems that among the 1796 Lansdowne portrait of George green economy’s “triple bottom line” Washington standing with his out- of economic growth, environmental stretched open hand symbolizing re- protection, and social justice, at least publican virtue. Indeed, Stuart’s se- one of these goals tends to trump the ries of iconic portraits of our nation’s others. Nonetheless, Black, White, and fi rst president emphasizes the fact Green suggests that we shouldn’t be Spirits, Nineteenth Century Paintings that our national capital is set geo- too quick to dismiss the potential of of the South: The Johnson Collection, graphically in the South. A number the green economy, despite its imper- he traces the evolution of artistic ac- of Southern artists created artworks fections. Farmers markets throughout tivity in the South, with particular for the Capitol. Others, like Virginia- the country are, and will continue to emphasis on its infl uences. born John Gadsby Chapman, ex- be, important public spaces in which Pennington can be credited with ecuted portraits of members of the to ask, act out, and reconsider these setting the stage for serious study of Washington family. questions of just sustainability that are Southern art through the past three Pennington traces 19th-century so important to our collective future. decades, beginning with a sympo- Southern painting through the in- sium at the Lauren Rogers Museum of fl uences of England and Germany Sara Camp Arnold Art in 1982. Since that time, he has in both art and literature. He dis- published several books on Southern cusses the “spirit of the era” and the painting. Romantic Spirits focuses Romantic era, which begins with Romantic Spirits, on the extensive collection of Susu Thomas Sully’s 1810 return from stud- Johnson and George Dean Johnson ies with Benjamin West to Thomas Nineteenth-Century Jr., which represents a broad survey of Waterman Wood’s last exhibition in Paintings of the South: The paintings that document the country’s 1896. Pennington cites the concept Johnson Collection. rich cultural history from Virginia’s of the “heroic individual,” as put forth By Estill Curtis Pennington. Tidewater to the Blue Grass region to in Sir Walter Scott’s literature, which the Gulf Coast. Through this publica- permeated the South throughout the Edited by Lynne Blackman. tion the Johnsons aim to advance aca- century. The infl uence of Lord Byron, Foreword by Kevin Grogan. demic research and general apprecia- the leading fi gure in Romantic litera- Paris, Kentucky: Cane Ridge tion of the vital role the South played ture, lent a “layer of sensuality” to the Publishing House, distribut- in American art. heroic individual’s persona. ed by the University of South Romantic Spirits is divided into Expectedly, Pennington charts the Carolina Press, 2012. 168 pag- three parts: Pennington’s highly appreciation for nature, as cham- readable essays exploring the devel- pioned by British art critic John es. $34.95 cloth. opment of painting in the 19th-cen- Ruskin, which found its counterpart Despite the fact that painting in tury South, followed by two sections in Germany’s Düsseldorf Academy. the Southern United States paral- on painters—one discussing the se- The appreciation for Casper David lels mainstream art in the nation- lected artworks of 32 artists and one Frederich’s compositions, imbued al and international arena, there is providing biographical essays. In an with a metaphoric natural light, in- a distinct indefi nable quality that unusual touch, the artistic biogra- spired luminist painters in Europe as identifi es many artworks as origi- phies are accompanied by photo- well as America. No discussion of the nating in the South. In Estill Curtis graphs of all but three of these artists, sublime quality of nature is complete Pennington’s publication, Romantic thus giving “a face” to those whose without acknowledging luminist

Page 26 Winter 2013 The Southern Register Reading the South continued University Press of MississiPPi painter Asher Brown Durand’s Kindred Spirits, which portrays artist Thomas Cole and romantic poet William We Shall Not Be Moved Cullen Bryant engaged conversation amid the wilder- The Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-In ness. Pennington continues his discourse with natural- and the Movement It Inspired ist Henry David Thoreau and transcendentalist Ralph By M. J. O’Brien Waldo Emerson, as well as painter-author Thomas Foreword by Julian Bond Addison Richards, all of whom celebrated nature. An up-close study of a pinnacle Landscape painting found a broad audience after the moment in the struggle and of those Civil War, and numerous artists sought the less-trav- who fought for change eled regions. Others, like Marie Adrien Persac, painted $40; Ebook Available “portraits” of plantation homes. In Pennington’s chapter on “The Inevitability of Tell About Night Flowers Change,” he sets the stage with historical landmarks: Eudora Welty’s Gardening the 1763 surveying of the Mason-Dixon line, which es- Letters, 1940–1949 tablished the line of demarcation between slave-hold- Selected and Edited by ing and free-states, and the 1833 British Parliament’s Julia Eichelberger repudiation of slavery. The 1850 Compromise, designed A collection of the garden to hold the Union together, caused slaveholders to be- correspondence of a great come more entrenched. The publication of Harriet American writer and gardener Beecher Stowe’s highly influential novel further re- $45; Ebook Available inforced attitudes toward slavery on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Southern painters responded to these attitudes. William Southern Frontier Humor Aiken Walker was prolific in his production of sentimen- New Approaches tal images of emancipated African Americans picking Edited by Ed Piacentino cotton in the altered sociopolitical landscape. The most New approaches and new memorable paintings, though, are William Dickinson considerations of authors beyond Mark Twain and Washington’s iconic scene of women burying a dead soldier into the present day and Henry Mosler’s depiction of a defeated Confederate $60; Ebook Available soldier lamenting his war-ravaged home. These two works, The Lost Cause and The Burial of Latané, are keystones of the Johnson Collection. Yet the selection of works presented in Romantic Spirits provides a broader perspective Rethinking the Irish in on painting in the 19th-century South. the American South Beyond Rounders and Reelers Judith H. Bonner Edited by Bryan Albin Giemza A fresh look at a multifaceted minority culture $60; Ebook Available Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893–1985. By Jay Watson. Athens: University of Twain’s Brand Humor in Contemporary Georgia Press, 2012. 412 pages. $26.95 American Culture paperback. By Judith Yaross Lee Jay Watson is not a critic to shy away from contro- A study of what made mark versial statements. Early in his magisterial reading of twain a pioneer of American comedy today modern Southern literature, Reading for the Body: The $55; Ebook Available Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893–1985, Watson makes the bold, at-first-glance seemingly out- rageous claim that for generations almost all critics of Southern culture and literature have been guilty of an www.upress.state.ms.us • 800-737-7788 over-intellectualization that has led them, following facebook.com/upmiss • twitter.com/upmiss

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the inspiration of W.J. Cash, to probe roughly chronologically, though chro- how Southern culture has shaped the nology is actually not that important mind while all but ignoring its impact to the book’s argument. That the es- on the body. Given that Southerners says don’t build much upon each oth- have long been characterized in na- er might sound like a fl aw, but in this tional discussions as being, in ef- case it really isn’t, because Watson fect, all body with no mind (Cash’s (and this is unusual in critical studies) Mind of the South was met with deri- uses a different methodology in each sion by some for just this reason, and chapter, so that we end up with some- the fl ood of similar attacks has con- thing like “Six (or Seven) Versions tinued unabated through the years, of the Body in Modern Southern most recently in Chuck Thompson’s Literature.” Perhaps the book might Better Off without ’Em: A Northern have been a tad stronger if the various Manifesto for Southern Secession), it perspectives were more completely is perhaps not surprising that in fact dovetailed, but perhaps not: the book many scholars of Southern culture is a critical tour de force as it is, and have gone in the other direction, as- is certainly one of the most important serting the South’s strong intellectu- books in Southern studies to appear in al and literary tradition. “Scholarly recent years. discussions of southern identity and While all the chapters are impres- regional culture have long revolved sively argued and presented (Watson around the history of ideas,” Watson is a beautiful writer who has the un- writes, adding that “our understand- a dissonance to be heard and a frac- canny ability to make the most diffi - ing of the U.S. South, then, has been turing to be seen, resulting from the cult arguments surprisingly straight- vulnerable to over-intellectualization clash between cultural conditioning forward), several do stand out, in- and over-idealization by scholars.” and the individual’s desires and needs. cluding those on Hurston, Wright, Watson claims that this over-in- This clash becomes most apparent in and Mason. With Hurston, Watson tellectualization has led scholars, traumatic situations when the body draws upon media studies to ana- even ironically those who are criti- collapses in upon itself, the material lyze how she problematizes the con- cal of Southern traditionalism, to demands of the body overwhelming nection between voice and body in add to Southern culture’s power to the abstract demands of cultural con- ways that were characteristic of her enforce social conditioning and re- ditioning. In this collapsing, the cul- time, related to technological ad- straint. How can this be? Because, ar- tural order is defamiliarized, its gaps, vances in sound reproduction and gues Watson, it is less the system itself limits, and insuffi ciencies bared, its transmission. Instead of dismissing than its material effects upon individ- fundamental nature exposed as “con- Hurston as a nostalgic writer of pre- ual Southern bodies that best reveals tingent and provisional rather than modern rustics, as some critics do, the invisible power and workings of necessary and natural.” Watson shows convincingly that culture—and it is precisely these ma- Watson’s examination of this re- she was instead participating in the terial effects that Watson fi nds to be calcitrant materiality focuses on international modernism of Joyce the subject of much Southern fi ction selected works by six writers— and Eliot, portraying the folk of the and the subject that Southern critics Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, Southern countryside in a world that have long ignored. The term “recal- William Faulkner, Richard Wright, “was haunted by the uneven tempo- citrant materiality” in Reading for the Katherine Anne Porter, and Bobbie ralities and porous subjectivities ush- Body’s subtitle points to a crucial idea Ann Mason—together with a short- ered in by new negotiations between in Watson’s reading of and for bod- er, but no less insightful, discussion bodies and machines.” For Wright, ies in Southern fi ction: drawing upon of Walker Percy in the book’s coda. Watson draws from and then extends the insights of Louis Althusser, Elaine As suggested by this list and under- Elaine Scarry’s ideas on the body and Scarry, Russ Castronovo, and others, scored by Watson in his introduction, pain, arguing that Wright’s charac- Watson argues that Southern bodies Reading for the Body is not a compre- ters ultimately remake themselves by “are where southern ideas, including hensive survey of Southern fi ction but drawing upon the very forces of de- ideas of and about the South itself, ul- rather a series of representative read- struction that were unleashed upon timately happen,” and that because ings. While there is some crosstalk them; for these characters, “pain be- of the intractable nature of individ- between chapters, each essentially comes an active, even creative force ual bodies, there’s always going to be stands alone, with chapters arranged in the construction of black subjects

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and in the struggle for black citizen- Watson seeks to restore them to their ship.” And for Mason, Watson con- full embodied and human state. As structs a careful, brilliant reading of he wisely tells us, “if we are never not In Country, examining how during our bodies, it is equally true that we wartime everyone, combatants as are never only our bodies.” well as noncombatants, is at risk at being damaged, since the economic, Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. social, and political networks con- trolling the war machine extend into every area of society and into the lives of everyone. Thrall: Poems. To single out three chapters is not By Natasha Trethewey. Boston to dismiss the others; these are only and New York: Houghton the three that hit me the hardest, the Miffl in Harcourt, 2012. 84 three that buried themselves deep- est inside me. Watson’s other chap- pages. $23.00 cloth. ters—on Twain examining the dif- Three hundred years ago, Juan fi culties of establishing individual Rodríguez Juárez painted several identity merely through the record- tableaux of interracial families from ing of physical characteristics, par- Mexico. These intimate portraits in- ticularly those of hands; on Faulkner spired U.S. poet laureate Natasha latto, “that precise shade of in-be- letting loose on the potential of fero- Trethewey to write Thrall, dedicated tween”; and Trethewey suggests that cious blood-lettings to make real the to her father, the poet Eric Trethewey. Juarez’s painting of the boy “fi xed him frightening consequences of abstract The dust jacket displays a rich exam- in his place”—not only his place in the racial ideology; and on Porter explor- ple of Juárez’s colonial art, a canvas artistic composition but his lowly rank ing the dangerous threats to women’s entitled De Español y de India Produce in the colonial hierarchy. bodies that underlie the surface calm Mestiso. On the original painting, Born in 1966 to a black moth- and decorum of Southern tradition- the formula of racial difference was er from Gulfport, Mississippi, and a alism, threats that emerge in all their spelled out in gilded words—“gold white father from Canada, Trethewey horror during times of disease and letters inscribing / an equation of feels kinship with the racially mixed pregnancy—are just as masterful, just blood,” says Trethewey in her lines children of the casta paintings. Thrall as disturbingly enlightening. on the daughter of a Spaniard and an introduces the connection subtly And just as effective is Watson’s Indian woman. The artist’s inscrip- in “Elegy,” the book’s fi rst poem, as striking discussion of Walker Percy, tion turns the domestic group into a the author recalls the time her fa- a discussion that merits comment. If biologist’s genetic grid. ther’s “line” became “tangled with Watson begins Reading for the Body by Scores of casta paintings by Juárez mine” on a fi shing trip. Because Eric identifying the dangers of over-intel- and other Spaniards charted the so- Trethewey is both her parent and a lectualizing the study of Southern lit- cial castes and bloodlines of the em- fellow poet, the metaphorical “lines” erature and culture, he ends his book pire with cold precision. As art histo- cast at the river by the father and with a cautionary tale of the dangers rian Magali M. Carrera explains, 18th- his grown daughter have intricate of going to the other extreme—of century intellectuals developed a tax- threads of meaning. Lines can con- over-reading the signifi cance of the onomy or classifi cation of “fourteen to nect and communicate, but they can body so that the richness of human twenty distinct offspring of Spaniard, also tangle and strangle. Although life and individuality is reduced to Indian, and Black African unions, em- the day is “shining,” a mist settles the working of body parts, the stuff phasizing the diminishing of Spanish over father and daughter “like a net.” of organic chemistry. This is what blood and the polluting quality of While Natasha works “the hooks the title character of Percy’s Lancelot mixed blood.” In Trethewey’s Thrall, loose” to free two undersized trout, ends up doing as he slides into mad- the four-part poem “Taxonomy” de- her attention is snagged by “the past”; ness, leading him to characterize his scribes three of Juárez’s works, as well but her memories slip from her grasp act of murder as merely knife cells the Spanish Book of Castas, a text that along with the fi sh. Related images entering skin cells. Watson uses the assigns terms for “each crossed birth,” of entrapment and release occur in madness of Lancelot to highlight his placing innocent children “in thrall to the poems that follow. As a student own very different purpose as critic: a word.” Thus, the son of a Spaniard in my Southern literature survey class whereas Lancelot objectifi es people, and an African woman is labeled mu- perceptively commented, the netlike

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mist is the first of the book’s many and historical erasure.” In many of the set at Monticello, the Virginia es- ominous and shadowy presences. new poems, she restores forgotten sto- tate whose very architecture evokes By the time Natasha Trethewey ries. The title poem, “Thrall,” for ex- Thomas Jefferson’s brilliance as an was six her parents were divorced; ample, is narrated by Juan de Pareja, Age of Reason thinker. In this poem, and Thrall views both her father and assistant to the 17th-century artist Trethewey cites her father’s asser- the white fathers of the casta paint- Diego Vélásquez. The biracial son of tion that Jefferson’s “moral philoso- ings as “transient” figures, pictured in a slave woman, de Pareja learned the phy meant / he could not have fa- outline or profile. Because the father painter’s craft by closely watching his thered” the children of his slave Sally of the mulatto child in “Taxonomy” famous master, but he had to keep his Hemings. But “Enlightenment” also wears hat and cloak, “It’s as if he’s own canvases “secret” until he was records Trethewey’s awareness of a just come in, / or that he’s leaving.” freed. Art and learning are also cen- “dark subtext” to Jefferson’s “bright In the poem “Rotation,” Trethewey tral in “Knowledge,” based on J.H. knowledge.” The poet cannot ignore remembers that her father looked as Hasselhorst’s 1864 drawing of an anat- the parallel between her professor-fa- “distant” as the “white and luminous” omy. Four well-dressed men of science ther and the founding father, but she moon when he stood in the doorway clinically inspect the naked body of realizes that “the past holds us cap- of her dark bedroom, “as if to watch an anonymous woman. The man who tive,” and she lightens the tension over me as I dreamed.” Protective but places a hand on a pile of books “peers by joking that she—the black daugh- elusive, he is “already turning to go, down as if / enthralled.” He and his ter—will “head around to the back” of waning / like the moon that night” colleagues remind Trethewey of her Jefferson’s mansion. as his small daughter watches. She is father—the scalpel in the hand of the When Daniel Cross Turner inter- vulnerable to his “rotations,” as the “dissector” is “like a pen / poised above viewed Trethewey, she remarked, “The tides are subject to the moon. Like me, aimed straight for my heart.” The story of America has always been a sto- many others in Trethewey’s volume, simile sounds harsh, but Trethewey ry of miscegenation, of border cross- this child is enthralled. will never forget that her father once ings, of integration of cultures, and Trethewey told the interviewer Lisa said of her in a poem: “I study / my again, I embody this in my person.” Devries that she found the title for the crossbreed child.” Trethewey is among the writers Turner book when she was still working on her Trethewey introduces Thrall with studies in Southern Crossings: Poetry, Pulitzer Prize-winning third collec- a pair of epigraphs. The first is from Memory, and the Transcultural South tion, Native Guard (2006), set largely Robert Penn Warren, the only oth- (University of Tennessee Press, 2012). on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Exploring er Southerner who has served as In Trethewey’s Thrall, southern cross- the meanings of “native,” the poet U.S. poet laureate: “What is love? / ings take the enthralled reader from learned that the first definition was One name for it is knowledge.” But the 1600s to the 21st century, from “someone born into the condition of Trethewey quickly adds this line Spain and Mexico to Mississippi, from servitude, of thrall.” “All of a sudden,” from T.S. Eliot: “After such knowl- the colonizing father to the colonized she said, “the new title came to me.” edge, what forgiveness?” The poems daughter—who finds her freedom by Trethewey’s Thrall embodies many of of Thrall identify a cold edge to rigid casting her own full-blooded lines. the same concerns as her previous vol- systems of knowledge, whether scien- umes, particularly what she calls her tific or philosophical. One of the most Joan Wylie Hall “obsessions” with “historical memory striking examples is “Enlightenment,”

continued from 2 Director’s Column worst within themselves? The book’s ep- how many other scholarly perspectives ilogue includes the memorable sentence, can address such issues? ten changing. Can we understand more “If the white man turned to stare at the University life is at its best when peo- about racist events as part of ongoing animal within him, if he once admitted ple are asking and trying to answer big cultural as well as political conflicts, per- unashamedly that the beast was there, questions, pursuing some shared values haps, as Grace Hale wrote of violence he might see that the old foe was a friend while also encouraging original think- in the Jim Crow era, to “deny that any as well, that his best and his worst de- ing. My hope is that addressing prob- space was black space?” Should we turn rived from the same deep well of ener- lems on campus and doing the work of to the more psychological arguments gy.” While we are studying racism, can scholars are, even sometimes in ways of Winthrop Jordan, whose book White we also use scholarly work to understand that may be hard to see immediately, over Black argued that concepts of white claims of innocence and narratives or part of the same process. supremacy developed in large part out assumptions about progress? And along of projections of people who feared the with these questions from historians, Ted Ownby

Page 30 Winter 2013 The Southern Register Kitchen to Classroom: Grad ANOTHER LOOK Elvis Down Under (2012), Students Present Research by Gretchen Wood In November, my students in Foodways and Southern Culture—all fi rst-year MA candidates in the Southern Studies program—delivered oral reports of their independent research and shared a variety of homemade dishes with the SFA staff. I was im- pressed to see how the scholarly literature of Southern foodways informed their work. Two students found inspiration in the issue of food sovereignty as it relates to ethnic communities in the South. Cultivating Food Justice: Food, Race, and Sustainability (ed. Alkon and Agymen) defi nes food sovereignty as “a community’s ‘right to defi ne their own food and agriculture systems.’” This concept is broader than mere access and considers to what extent populations exercise self-determination over their food systems. Paige Prather examined the Vietnamese community gardens and farmers market in New Orleans East. She found that the same tradition of communal agriculture that had given this neighborhood autonomy over their foodways since the 1970s helped in its recovery after Hurricane Katrina. Prather shared a taste of Vietnamese New Orleans with her classmates by bringing a selection of sweets from a popular Vietnamese bakery and oranges from a Vietnamese American family’s backyard orange tree. Over on the Atlantic coast, Anna Hamilton related food sovereignty to my- An enthusiastic fan in Parkes, Australia, thology surrounding the datil pepper. Hamilton connected the datil pepper to St. poses for a photo with Paul Fenech, Augustine, Florida’s Minorcan community—descendants of indentured servants an Elvis tribute artist who hails from originally from an island off the coast of Spain. But historical research suggests the Sydney. Fenech appeared at the 20th an- pepper may have other origins. Hamilton examined the ways in which this commu- nual CountryLink Parkes Elvis Festival, nity continues to claim the pepper as its own. Australia’s largest Elvis festival, which is Another popular theme for student research was the relationship between food and held in celebration of the Mississippi na- gender. Kate Hudson was inspired by new SFA board member Elizabeth Engelhardt’s tive’s birthday. The global South event book A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food to examine turn-of-the-cen- draws 18,000 fans, an attendance fi gure tury boys’ agricultural clubs. Hudson wanted to see how issues of masculinity may have larger than the town’s population of ap- infl uenced these clubs. She found that, unlike the tomato clubs—which often exposed proximately 15,000. girls to new opportunities—corn clubs tended to limit rural boys to farming. In January 2012 Gretchen Wood, Students at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture are making signifi - a UM graduate student in Southern cant contributions to our knowledge of Southern foodways. Follow the SFA blog at Studies, traveled to Parkes to docu- southernfoodways.blogspot.com for weekly “Kitchen to Classroom” updates. ment the transnational effects of the taboo-breaking Southern musical icon. Jill Cooley This photo is part of a larger documentary project that will appear in the photo essay “Outback Elvis: Riding with the King in Parkes, Australia” in the upcoming Spring issue of Southern Cultures. Wood is currently editing her In Memoriam thesis fi lm, Chinese Whispers: Southern Roots in Australia’s Swampy Sound, Marion Beckett Howorth Sr. Jake Adam York which depicts country and blues infl u- December 5, 1922–October 31, August 10, 1972–December 16, ences on early Australian punk music. 2012 2012 ______Josephine Ayres Haxton (Ellen Douglas) “Another Look” is a new feature in the July 12, 1921–November 7, 2012 Southern Register that will highlight Marshall Jones Bouldin III documentary photography by Southern September 6, 1923–November 12, Studies graduate students, faculty, 2012 alumni, and friends. The editors would like to encourage submissions—which Charles “Chuck” Jordan should include a high-resolution jpeg or April 11, 1946–November 13, 2012 tiff and text placing the image in con- Joseph Blotner text for the viewer—to be sent to Jimmy June 21, 1923–November 16, 2012 Thomas at [email protected].

The Southern Register Winter 2013 Page 31 The Southern Studies Tent: Community Building in the Grove Mel Lasseter For thousands of alumni and students, tailgate parties in the Grove serve as the highlight of the University of Mississippi’s rich football tradition during the autumn months. From the Grove’s serene location in the heart of campus to perceptions of formally at- tired Rebel men and women and traditional Southern fare served on fine dinnerware under a sea of red and blue tents, UM tailgating rituals have assumed a legendary status as a Southern experience. With the Grove’s mythic perch in university lore and notoriety among football fans, weekend festivities afford a powerful bonding experience for many alumni and students. In the eyes of new students, participation in the Grove can serve as a barometer for an individual’s acceptance and as- similation into UM culture. Yet, simultaneously, the space can be alienating and overwhelming for those who are not already part of the Grove’s tailgating customs. In response to the con- Tent host Payne Kellum (right) talking with Southern Studies alum Brian Wilson during cerns of students who desired a sense the Central Arkansas tent of ownership within this part of UM culture, several faculty members, grad- Project in front of Barnard Observatory the Southern Studies tent hosts creat- uate students, and undergraduate stu- during three football games in the ed a welcoming community that cele- dents hosted the Southern Studies Tent 2012–13 season. Through this space, brated the diversity of the student body with the pageantry of Grove traditions.

Mel Lasseter The initial proposal for the Southern Studies tent sprang from the experiences of Southern Studies faculty members Michele Coffey and David Wharton and graduate students Mel Lasseter (Southern Studies) and Justin I. Rogers (history), each of whom taught either introductory history and Southern Studies classes during the spring of 2012. Through written class assign- ments on citizenship and Southern identity, several undergraduate students expressed insights into the culture at UM. Despite coming from different backgrounds, each student articulated a vision of a vibrant environment that encouraged positive interaction within a more inclusive campus community. Realizing that they held the power to initiate profound change in the Grove’s Tent hosts (left to right) Hope Owens-Wilson, Daniel Roberts, and Katherine Hui chat- ting with Talya Kahan of the Winter Institute during the Texas A&M tent culture and show that “collective char-

Page 32 Winter 2013 The Southern Register Mel Lasseter the tent and engaged more in-depth conversations. Tent host and Southern Studies graduate student Jillian E. McClure observed that the second tent drew faculty and students who experi- enced the Grove for the first time during their period at UM: “The first tent’s success became apparent during the second tent because a number of people who had heard about the first tent were attracted to the inclusive environment. As a tent host, I was encouraged to see the tent’s mission taking hold within the university at-large.” As a result of events on the UM campus on election night, the third tent for the Vanderbilt game saw substantial changes. The third tent’s name officially changed to the “We Are One Mississippi” tent, (above) Michele Coffey, which reflected student hosts’ belief in Lele Gillespie, and for- fairness and civility. mer Mississippi gover- The Southern Studies Tent Project nor William Winter dur- has served to build community outside ing cleanup after the Texas A&M game of the Grove as well. Since the season’s inaugural tent, the diverse students (left) Kenny Brown (left) who served as Southern Studies tent and Adam Gussow playing hosts have reported increased contact the blues on the steps of with one another outside of the project, Barnard including collaboration over specific projects and shared interests, as well as greater social engagement on university grounds and in Oxford. One under- Mel Lasseter graduate student host extended her in- acter is real and something each of us Studies professor and local music pro- vestment in the Southern Studies tent shapes,” the undergraduate students moter Adam Gussow ensured the proj- community into her activities with the who became Southern Studies tent ect’s success by securing well-known International Student Organization’s hosts recognized that they could serve musical acts, including Kenny Brown, World Fest, where students set up tents as important role models to the larg- Bill Perry Sr., and Bill Perry Jr. in the Grove that corresponded to the er university society as student leaders Each of the three tents reinforced culture of different countries. As the and future alumni. Because of its status the existing bonds between the origi- only student from her native country, in UM culture, the Grove offered fer- nal student hosts and drew the atten- the host wanted to represent her na- tile ground for these students’ ideas to tion of new students as well as commu- tal home along with her newly adopted gain traction. Instead of a complete al- nity members. When the first tent for Southern roots. Ten Southern Studies teration to game-day festivities, the ini- the Central Arkansas game came to tent hosts ultimately attended meetings tial Southern Studies tent hosts worked fruition at the beginning of September, to discuss the possibilities of participat- within existing traditions as an avenue the work involved in preparation for ing in ISO’s World Fest. for moving forward. The UM admin- the tent and the social interaction dur- Applying their learning experiences istration supported the idea of a stu- ing the tailgate strengthened camarade- beyond the walls of the classroom, the dent-led community-building initia- rie among the hosts and fellow students Southern Studies tent hosts witnessed tive in the Grove, and the project re- and attracted the members of neighbor- the benefits of role modeling civili- ceived generous funding from the ing alumni tents. By the second tent ty and respect while creating a beauti- William Winter Institute for Racial for the Texas A&M game, several new ful and fun tailgate. They also realized Reconciliation. The participation of freshman students joined the roster of their power to extend these values be- Oxford community members helped to hosts, which broadened commitment yond football game weekends and the solidify the tent as a prime destination to the endeavor. Although the hosts at Grove. in the Grove. Caterers Ibby and Wiley this game faced pouring rain and cold Morris of Party Waitin’ to Happen pro- weather, the obstacles bonded the stu- Justin Isaac Rogers vided Southern fare, and Southern dents as people lingered longer under

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Charles, Ann, and I weren’t thinking about content for the next volumes.” Although Wilson and Thomas have worked closely as series editors over the years, they formed a new collaboration when they assumed the roles of volume editors of the Science and Medicine volume. “The book presented particularly enjoyable challenges for us,” said Thomas. “There’s been quite a bit of development in the study of science and medicine in the South over the past couple of decades, and scholars are becoming increasingly specialized in their investigation of the field. Discovering and publishing that new scholarship has been one of my greatest joys in working on this series.” The volume’s 38 thematic entries and 44 topical entries document the South’s medical and der studies, and African American stud- technological history, which includes ies at the University of Texas at Austin, natural history, slave health, eugen- will include 36 thematic and 29 topi- ics, medicine in the Civil War, pub- cal essays that examine such subjects as lic health, HIV/AIDS, environmental the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Japanese health, leprosy, and the rise of research American incarceration in the South, institutions and hospitals. relations between African Americans Volume 22, Art and Architecture, and Native Americans, Chinese men coedited by Judith H. Bonner and adopting Mexican identities, Latino re- Estill Curtis Pennington, has just ligious practices, and Vietnamese life in been published this January. Bonner the region. is senior curator/curator of art at The Since 2007, various editors and con- Historic New Orleans Collection, and tributors have represented volumes of Pennington is an independent schol- the New Encyclopedia series at academ- ar and author of a number of books on ic conferences and book festivals, in- Southern art. The comprehensive book cluding the Southeast Conference on presents historic and current trends in Linguistics, the Southern Festival of Southern visual arts and architecture, Books in Nashville, and the Decatur major collections and institutions, and Book Festival in Decatur, Georgia. This biographies of artists themselves. This past November, Thomas, Wilson, and is the first of two volumes in the se- Bonner traveled to participate in the ries to include 16 pages of color plates, southern folk pottery to the South’s rich Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge which highlight exceptional examples quilt-making traditions, memory paint- in support of volumes 21 and 22. This of Southern artwork by artists such ing, and African American vernacular May, Wilson, Thomas, Abadie, and as Matthew Harris Jouett, Thomas art, and 211 topical essays include pro- Center director Ted Ownby will take Satterwhite Noble, Joseph Rusling files of major folk and self-taught art- the New Encyclopedia on the road to par- Meeker, John McCrady, Walter Ingliss ists in the region, including artists as di- ticipate in a gala event at the Library of Anderson, and Edward Rice. verse as Alexandre de Batz, John James Congress in Washington, D.C. Other The final two volumes of the series Audubon, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, and events, including guest lectures and pan- are Folk Art and Race. The Folk Art vol- Clementine Hunter. el discussions, are also in the planning ume is edited by independent scholar The Race volume, coedited by to celebrate the entire New Encyclopedia Cheryl Rivers and by Carol Crown, the Thomas C. Holt, who is James Westfall series. Wilson, Thomas, Abadie, and First Tennessee Professor of Art History Thompson Distinguished Service Ownby will present a Brown Bag lecture at the University of Memphis. In this Professor of American and African at Barnard Observatory on Wednesday, volume, 52 thematic essays examine American History at the University of April 24, 2013. subjects ranging from colonial portrai- Chicago, and Laurie B. Green, associate “The publication of the last volumes ture, Moravian material culture, and professor of history, women’s and gen- of the New Encyclopedia,” said Wilson,

Page 34 Winter 2013 The Southern Register “is a landmark for those of us at the Center and for our far-flung friends Mississippi Institute of who have contributed to a truly collab- orative project for the field of Southern Studies.” The editors hope to organize a Arts and Letters’ Awards number of events that will include not only volume and series editors, but also Nominees Announced include contributors of entries in the series. “One of the greatest aspects of The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters (MIAL) has determined its nom- this series,” said Thomas, “is the enor- inees for awards to be presented at the gala awards banquet in Columbus, mous amount of collaboration that has Mississippi, on June 8, 2013. Awards will be presented for works first shown, been required to compile this wealth published, or performed in 2012 in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, of scholarship. Since the beginning of visual arts, photography, and musical composition—both classical and contem- this project I have been I continually porary. Artists must have significant ties to the state of Mississippi and must stunned by the remarkable generosity have been nominated by an MIAL member. Judges for each category are chosen of knowledge and spirit of collegiality from outside the state of Mississippi. involved in its making.” The 24-vol- Fiction nominees this year are Richard Ford, Michael Kardos, and Jonathan ume series includes around 3,000 in- Odell. Nominated for the nonfiction award are James F. Barnett, Carolyn J. dividual entries written by more than Brown, Joseph Crespino, Donald C. Jackson, Angela Fordice Jordan, James 1,500 authors. Patterson Smith, and Molly Walling. The nominees for poetry are Carolyn The New Encyclopedia of Southern Elkins, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Catherine Pierce, Douglas Ray, Michael Smith, and Culture is a continuation of the ex- Natasha Trethewey. ceedingly successful book project The category for classical music composition has these nominees: J. Reese Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, pub- Norris, Albert Oppenheimer, and Steve Rouse. In the contemporary music lished in 1989 and coedited by Charles composition category, Johnny Bertram, Kate Campbell, Beth McKee, Caroline Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. and Hannah Melby, Caroline Herring, and Tyler Keith have been nominated. “In a lot of ways,” said Center direc- Rick Anderson, William N. Beckwith, Stephen D. Cook, Rob Cooper, tor Ownby, “the NESC is terrific in Martha Ferris, Tommy Goodman, Bradley Gordon, Stacey Johnson, Richard the way the original ESC was terrific— Kelso, Robert Malone, Brandon Moon, Chet Oguz, Lee Renninger, Will Smith, it’s thorough in its research and inclu- and Marty Vinograd are the nominees in visual arts. Nominated in the pho- sive in its subject matter, and it relies tography category are Roy Adkins, Jane Robbins Kerr, James Patterson, Kim on hundreds of scholarly experts. The Rushing, and David Wharton. New Encyclopedia has the benefit of be- Winners in each category will receive a cash prize and a Mississippi-crafted ing even more thorough because it in- gift. Past winners include Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Gwendolyn Magee, cludes so much more material, and, of Marshall Bouldin III, and Eudora Welty. course, it’s up to date, with a lot of new The president of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters is Sandra Shellnut scholars writing about topics scholars of Pass Christian. George Bassi of Laurel serves as vice president, and Nancy had not discussed before.” Guice, also from Laurel, is archivist. Jan Taylor of Jackson serves as treasurer, and “With very few exceptions,” contin- Margaret Anne Robbins of Pontotoc is secretary. David Beckley, Holly Springs, ued Ownby, “finishing a twenty-four- is immediate past president. The board of governors elected two new board mem- volume series happens once in a life- bers at its winter meeting, Beth Kander and Jean Medley, both of Jackson. time, if ever. Congratulations to the ed- Anyone may join MIAL and thus be able to nominate in each of the award itors and UNC Press and all those au- categories. For more information about membership or about attending the thors and graduate assistants.” awards gala, visit the website at ms-arts-letters.org.

All 24 volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture are now available for order or pre-order from the University of North Carolina Press. Visit uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/284 or call 1-800-848-6224 to order copies.

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