Ferris Takes on Nation's Humanities Work

. .... ~:A. he Center director for 18 years, Bill appointment express the confidence we University of Mississippi for six years: "I ~ Ferris, has moved to Washington, D.C., have in his ability to meet the chal- think he' llliven up the place. It's going to serve as chairman of the National lenges ahead. to be very hard to criticize Ferris as Endowment for the Humanities. He U niversity of Mississippi Chancellor spending taxpayer money on programs will be dearly missed, yet faculty, staff, Robert C. Khayat: "Bill Ferris has not very few Americans can relate to. I'll bet and students at the Center are excited only garnered the level of serious academ- he's going to think up ways to make the that he has been given the opportunity ic study our region deserves but also has humanities much more accessible to a to lead the nation's foremost guiding enhanced the public's understanding and broader population." institution in the humanities. As witness respect for it. With his creative talents and Sheldon Hackney, former chairman of his creative vision and exemplary vision, Bill will do the same for the of NEH, whom Bill is succeeding: "The efforts as director of the Center, we National Endowment for the Humanities. critical thing about him is that he oper- realize that the National Endowment We are proud to have one of our scholars ates on a whole range of American cul- for the Humanities is about to experi- appointed to this important post and know ture. He's-and 1 don't mean this pejo- ence successful years under his tenure. Bill will bring even more positive atten- ratively-an academic entrepreneur." The following quotes gleaned from tion to our region and state." Jamil S. Zainaldin, president of the press articles surrounding Ferris's Charles Reagan Wilson, professor of Federation of State Humanities Councils: History and Southern Studies, "He has the traditional certification of an University of Mississippi: "Bill academic scholar and is well entrenched will energize the nation behind in higher education. But he's also worked a broad-based vision of the extensively with state and local humani- humanities. He is a superb com- ties councils, and his programs at the municator who can explain the Center for the Study of Southern Culture importance of the humanities to are all about the public dissemination of a diverse range of Americans." the humanities." Tom Rankin, associate profes- U ni versity of Mississippi history sor of Art and Southern Studies, professor Michael E. Landon: "If any- University of Mississippi: "Bill body can, he will be able to increase is a natural. There is no better funding for the agency from both public person out there to lead the and private sources." NEH. He will be a great Ferris's mother, Shelby Ferris, of spokesperson for the humani- Vicksburg, Mississippi: "I think he'll ties at all levels." do his best. 1 know it's the top position James C. Cobb, history pro- in the humanities to which anyone fessor at the University of could aspire." Georgia, who team taught a Allison Vise Finch course with Ferris at the

William R. Ferris, founding director of the Center, was nominated by President Bill Clinton as chairman the National Endowment for the Humanities. His nomination was unanimously approved by a Senate committee comprised of Democrats and Republicans. • , D 1 r e c t o r s c o 1 urn n

Published Quarterly by hange is never easy, and it is with both sadness and excitement that I take a The Center for the Study of Southern Culture leave of absence from the University of Mississippi and the Center for the The University of Mississippi Study of Southern Culture during my tenure as chairman of the National Telephone 601-232-5993 C Fax: 601-232-5814 Endowment for the Humanities. I moved to Oxford during the summer of 1979, E-mail: [email protected] and the years since have passed ever so quickly. During that time I have been Internet: URL http://www.cssc.olemiss.edu blessed to work with the very finest faculty, staff, and students at the Center, and with University administrators who have understood the vision of our work and IN THIS ISSUE given it their full commitment. Three chancellors-Porter Fortune, Gerald Turner, Winter 1998 and Robert Khayat-strongly supported the Center's initiatives. Provost Gerald Ferris Takes on Nation's Walton, Dean of Liberal Arts Dale Abadie, Dean of Graduate Studies Michael Humanities Work Dingerson, and Director of the University Foundation Don Fruge provided critical leadership in building our academic programs. Other administrators no longer at 2 Director's Column the University-Arthur DeRosier, Ray Hoops, Harvey Lewis, Morris Marx, Chuck 3 Fifth Oxford Conference for the Noyes,Joe Sam, and Wally Guess-also helped build Center programs. Book Outside University walls the Center's devoted State Advisory Committee linked 4 President's Initiative on Race our efforts with their communities throughout the state and beyond. Committee 5 Spring 1998 FoodwaysSymposium members continue to provide funding and program initiatives that broaden our work in important ways. 5 Wilson Wins Humanities Award We began with a dream, and now we enjoy the reality of an institution that 6 Lucille &Motee Daniels Award touches lives throughout the world. Our programs evolved over the years and are a 6 CAH DisplaysNatchez Photographs testament to the commitment of those who built and sustained them. The Center's Southern Studies B.A. and M.A. degree programs, our 6 1998 Tennessee Williams Festival Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, the renovation of Barnard Observatory, the establishment of the 7 Southern Studies Teacher Institute University's Blues Archive, our conferences on William Faulkner, civil rights, 7 "Southerners in New York" Southern history, Elvis Presley, and the book, and our publications Crossroads, 7 Henson's Muppets on Book Poster Living Blues, MississiPPi Folklife, and the Southern Register are but a few of the many milestones that have marked our journey. 8 Faulkner Celebration in Russia As I reflect on the Center's history, I am reminded of the central role that the 9 1998 F&Y: Faulkner in America National Endowment for the Humanities has played in our ability to establish these 10 1998 Natchez Literary Celebration programs on the American South. Our undergraduate curriculum, the Encyclopedia, and the renovation of Barnard Observatory are among the many projects for which 10 Memorial Gifts the Endowment provided generous support. Without their help the Center could 10 Call for Papers: Automobile not have moved so quickly to establish its programs. So I feel as if I am moving from Tourism one family of kindred spirits to another. I leave my beautiful office in Barnard 11 Reading the South: Reviews & Observatory for another in the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue.Both are Notes located in restored buildings that dramatically symbolize the commitment to 15 Lee Smith Talks about Writing preservation shared by both the Center and the Endowment. Recently I was surprised to see a beautiful red-tailed hawk soar past my office 17 Southern Studies 401 Seminar above Pennsylvania Avenue and light on a nearby building. It reminded me of the 17 Notes on Contributors many red-tailed hawks that perch along roadsides in Mississippi during the winter. I 18 In Memoriam: Evans Harrington felt the noble bird's flight was a sign that my work in Washington will be blessed 19 Regional Roundup with friends-both feathered and human-who will travel with me on the roads ahead. I cannot find words to fully express my gratitude to the many friends REGISTER STAFF throughout the nation who have written and called on my behalf over the past months.Your generous support means so much, and I will work to fulfill the confi- Editor: Ann J. Abadie dence you,have shown in me. Editorial Assistant: Allison ViseFinch I leave the Center knowing that it is in the very best of hands with outstanding Publications Manager: MickeyMcLaurin faculty and staff who over the years have developed the Center's programs with an Graphic Designer: Susan BauerLee unfailing commitment to excellence. Both Marcie and I appreciate all the love and Mailing List Manager: Raj Betapudi support we have received from our friends in Oxford and other places. We look for- Lithographer: Metroweb ward to keeping in touch with each of you and hope you will visit us in Washington.

The University complies with all applicable laws regarding affirmative action and equal opportu- William Ferris nity in all its activities and does not discriminate against anyone protected by law because of age, creed, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, handicap, veteran or other status.

Page 2 Winter 1998 The Southern Register Fifth Oxford Conference for the Book to Be Held March 13~15

ince its inauguration in April 1993 , ry at Rutgers University, is the author of the Oxford Conference for the The Natures of John and William Bartram SBook has celebrated books, writ- and editor of William Bartram:Travels and ing, and reading and has also dealt with Other Writings. practical conc~rns on which the literary n addition to reading from his work, arts depend, including literacy, freedom Ambrose will be on the panel "Wieners of expression, and the book trade itself. and Rebels: Writing from the Trenches The 1998 conference, the fifth in the of Southern Culture."Other panelists for series, is set for March 13-15, 1998. The this session will be historian Jerry E. program will consist of readings, lectures, Strahan and journalist Tony Horwitz. Parts, is an emeritus professor of journal- discussions, and a performance of a musi- Strahan, manager of Lucky Dogs Inc. in ism at the University and an attorney. cal interpretation of Lee Smith's novel New Orleans, is the author of Managing Brown will also participate in a Fair and Tender Ladies. The Young Ignatius: The Lunacy of Lucky Dogs and panel on "Skeletons in the Closet: Authors Fair, a special event sponsored by Life in the Quarter. Horwitz is a reporter Writing about the Family."Joining him the Oxford Junior Auxiliary and the for the Wall Street Journal, and his book in this discussion will be Rick Bragg, Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, will take Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from Elizabeth Spencer, and Daniel place in conjunction with the conference. the Unfinished Civil War is soon Among the notable authors partici- to be published by Pantheon. pating in the 1998 Oxford Conference Elizabeth Spencer, whose for the Book are Stephen E. Ambrose, fiction includes The Light in the Rick Bragg, Larry Brown, Randall Kenan, Piazza and Other Italian Tales Thomas P. Slaughter, and Elizabeth and The Voice at the Back Door, Spencer. Ambrose is the author of will read from her latest work, numerous books of history, including the Landscapes of the Heart: A bestseller Uru3aunted Courage: Meriwether Memoir. Bragg, correspondent Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening for the New York Times, will of the American West. Examining the era also read from his recent mem- portrayed in Undaunted Courage, oir, All Over But the Shoutin'. Slaughter will lecture on the topic Randall Kenan and Alane "Writing the Wilderness from Mason will lead sessions on writing, Woodrell, author of several acclaimed Meriwether Lewis to William Bartram being published, and reaching an audi- novels, including Give Us a Kiss. and Back." Slaughter, who teaches histo- ence. Mason, an editor at W. W. Norton, Another family-oriented session, has published Magda Denes's Castles "Writers' Spouses Speak Out," will fea- Burning and Last Days of the Dog- ture Stephen Ambrose's wife,Moira; Men by Brad Watson. Kenan is the Larry Brown's wife, Mary Annie; and author of a story collection,Let the Barry Hannah's wife, Susan. Dead Bury Their Dead, and a novel, Book designer and packager Bea A Visitation of Spirits. He is currently Jackson will moderate the panel Visiting Southern Writer at the "Bookmaking in the 21st Century: University of Mississippi. Technology, Creativity, and Design." Among those participating in the Panelists for this session will include sessions with Kenan and Mason will Wylene Dunbar, Oxford resident whose be Oxfo~d native Larry Brown, local first novel, Margaret Cape, was recently resident Jere Hoar, and Fredric published; Rita Marshall, a book designer; Koeppel, book review editor of the Claire Bradley Ong, a production manag- Memphis Commercial Appeal. Brown er at Alfred P. Knopf; and Rubin Pfeffer, is the author of Facing the Music, Dirty president of Harcourt Brace. Work, On Fire, and, most recently, Appearing on the panel "The Father and Son. He is currently teach- Endangered Species:Readers in the ing writing at the University. Hoar, author of the story collection Body continued on next page

The Southern Register Winter 1998 Page 3 Year 2004" will be Jack Gantos, author The registration fee for the entire con- of children's books, Barbara Bonds ference is $50 for students, $100 for Thomas, owner of Toad Hall Bookstore Friends of the Center, and $150 for other in Austin, Texas. Elaine H. Scott, participants. The daily rate is $25 for stu- moderator of the panel, has been dents, $50 for Friends of the Center, and involved with the Reading Is $75 for other participants. Additional, Fundamental program since 1974 and optional events are a cocktail buffet on received the RIF Leader for Literacy Friday ($30 per person) and brunch on - Award in April 1994. Gantos will also Sunday ($30 per person). give a presentation on his work, which The conference is sponsored by the includes the Rotten Ralph and Center for the Study of Southern Culture Jack series, and,visit local schools as and Square Books, supported by the part of Young Authors Fair activities. Oxford Junior Auxiliary and the John F. Marszalek, a history professor YoknapatawphaArts Council, and partial- at Memphis State University, will give a ly funded by the University of Mississippi presentation on his new book, The and through a grant by the City of Oxford. Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and The Institute of Continuing Studies is Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. coordinator of the event. Commenting on the book and its rele- For more information concerning For tourist information, contact the vance to the present will be Bragg and the conference, contact Charlene Dye Oxford Tourism Council,P.O. Box Horwitz, both winners of the Pulitzer at the Institute for Continuing Studies, 965, Oxford, MS 38655; telephone Prize for their work as journalists. P.O. Box 879, The University of 800-758-9177 or 601-234-4680; fax In addition, composers/performers Mississippi, University, MS 38677; 601-234-0355. Tommy Goldsmith, Tom House, and telephone 601-232-7282; fax 601-232- Linda Peal White Karren Pell will present a preview of 5138; e-mail [email protected]. their musical version of Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies. The work was commissioned by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, where the premiere is scheduled for December 1998. The President's Initiative on Race to Meet at the University on March 16 ..17

ne America: The President's and Phoenix, Arizona. Although early issues and will select representatives to Initiative on Race will send press reports criticized the slow start of meet with the advisory board at a pub- Orepresentatives from its adviso- the effort, more recent articles cite the lic meeting in March. The meeting will ry board to hold a public meeting at the increasing effectiveness of the process. consist of a dialogue between the con- University on March 16-17. Former Governor Winter expressed an stituency representatives and the advi- Mississippi Governor William Winter interest in having the effort include sory board followed by an open forum. and Duke Professor Emeritus of History Mississippi and has worked with "We have accepted the challenge John Hope Franklin, chair of the advi- Southern Studies alumnae Susan implicit in the President's Initiative and sory board, will attend. Glisson to bring the advisory board to are beginning dialogue on race relations President Clinton announced the campus. Glisson is chairing a program in Mississippi," said Glisson. "We hope Initiative last June, and the advisory committee of ~tudents and alumni who the March event will be a catalyst for a board began holding public meetings in are working with a planning committee coordinated effort to address and rectify September. The goals of these meetings of University administrators and racial injustice in Oxford and acrossthe are to encourage local communities to Oxford leaders to coordinate the event. state. It will take all of usworking togeth- identify pertinent issues regarding race Dialogue groups representing ten con- er for a better future." relations as well as to suggest programs stituencies-art, environment, reli- For information about the event, to address problems. The first town hall gion, housing, health care, labor, gov- contact Susan Glisson at the Center; forum was in Akron, Ohio; other meet- ernment, community organizing, edu- telephone 601-232-5993; e-mail glis- ings have been held in Fairfax, Virginia, cation, and business-are discussing [email protected].

Page 4 Winter 1998 The Southern Register Spring 1998 Foodways Symposium Center's he inaugural Southern Academic TFoodways Symposium will be held May 1-3, 1998. This event, hosted by the Center and Director Named Continuing Studies and sponsored by Bryan Foods, Viking Range, Ellen Outstanding Rolfes Books, and Mississippi I1t'I"P'" !,... ~ .. W;"'l ; Madness with supporting sponsor- .JJ~\~,~uW.OIi¥S ship from the American Institute of u,.,,~. , .•..' Humanities Wine and Food, will bring culinary historians, anthropologists, chefs, Teacher and passionate advocates of regional foods to the University for three harles Reagan Wilson, professor of days of lectures, tastings, and performances. This inaugural event will provide an CHistory and Southern Studies at the exciting opportunity for curious cooks and gourmands alike to better appreciate the University and academic director of the culture and foodways of the American South. Center, has been named as an Among the scheduled speakers are journalist John Egerton, writer of the seminal Outstanding Humanities Teacher of 1997 work Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History; culinary historian Jessica by the Mississippi Humanities Council. Harris, author of Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons: Africa's Gifts to New World Cooking and the forthcoming Nyam! The Food of African-Americans; and journalist Richard Schweid, writer of Catfish and the Delta: Confederate Fish Farming in the MississiPPi Delta and Hot Peppers: Cajuns and Capsicum in New Iberia, Louisiana. Augmenting the impressive list of speakers will be a seriesof informal lunches held in the tree-shrouded grove at the center of the Ole Miss campus. Featuring Southern spe- cialties like golden-fried catfish and smoke-infused pork barbecue, these meals will afford attendees a wonderful opportunity to interact with the speakers. Evening events include a private dinner party at Oxford's own City Grocery and a reading by Norma Jean Darden from her Broadway play,Spoonbreadand Strawberry Wine. Regional product tast- ings and book signings will also be featured. The weekend festivities will close with brunch served in the grove as a gospel choir performs. Registration is $195 for the entire symposium ($185 for Friends of the Center and members of the American Institute of Wine and Food). With only 75 spaces available, early registration is recommended. For information about registration and arrangements, contact Caroline Herring at the Institute for Continuing Studies, P.O. Box 879, University, MS 38677; telephone 601-232- 7282; e-mail [email protected]. For further information about the program, contact the sym- posium organizer, John T. Edge, at 601-236-7803 or at [email protected]. John T. Edge The Council gives the award each October in conjunction with national Arts and Humanities month. To com- memorate the award, Wilson gave a pub- lic lecture at the Center on October 28 on the topic "When Southerners Became Southerners: The Emergence of Southern Identities." Wilson received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas at EI Paso and his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. His specialization is Southern religious and cultural history, and his current research involves an interdisciplinary study of the Southern Sam Doyle, 1906-1985. Welcome Table. Paint on metal. 26.25 x 43.5 in. Collection of way of life. the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Collection, 1996.174.

The Southern Register Winter 1998 Page 5 Lucille and Motee Daniels Award Established Lucille Daniels has established the Lucille and Motee Daniels Endowment Fund in honor of her and her late hus- band's friendship with Bill Ferris, founding director of the Center. The purpose of the fund is to provide support for the Southern Studies graduate program, specifically through its provision for an annual award in honor of an outstanding Southern Studies graduate student paper. Teresa Parker, who will receive her master's in Southern Studies this May, is the first recipient of the $250 award. Parker received the award at a September 1997 reception in the home of Marcie and Bill Ferris at which Daniels and her family were in attendance. Friends of Lucille and Motee Daniels, Bill Ferris, and the Center are invited to make contributions to the endowment fund. Checks should be made payable to the University of MississippiFoundation and sent to the Center with a note that Left to right: Lucille Daniels, Bill Ferris, and Teresa Parker the funds are for the Daniels Award. Center for American Mississippi Delta History Displays Photos Tennessee Williams of Natchez Festival he University of Texas at Austin's Center for American THistory is displaying more than 100 images by Henry The sixth annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Norman, a photographer who documented daily life in Festival will take place in Clarksdale on October 15-17, 1998. Natchez in the last decades of the 19th century. Natchez on Scholars are invited to submit papers for possible presen- the MississiPPi,1870-1910, which will be on display until May tation at the festival. The deadline for submissions is August 31, 1998, includes photographs of the luxurious interiors of 15,1998. To enter, send a completed paper (7-8 pages) or an the great paddlewheel steamboats, studio portraits of African abstract (250 words) to Colby Kullman, Department of American families and Jewish merchants, and pictures of English, The University of Mississippi,University, MS Natchez street scenes, buildings, and plantation mansions. 38677. Dr. Thomas Gandy, a Natchez physician, and his wife, Joan High school students in Mississippi are invited to enter an Gandy, curated the exhibition over a period of 35 years using acting competition that includes two categories, monologues the enormous collection of Henry Norman works that they and scenes. All material must be drawn from the plays of acquired in 1960. The Gandys are the publishers of three Tennessee Williams. Cash prizes are given for winning mono- books on Natchez life: Norman's Natchez: An Early, logues and scenes, which will be performed for the festival Photographer and His Town, Natchez Victorian Children, and audience. The MississiPPi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs. For For information on the 1998 festival and drama competi- more information on the exhibit, contact Alison Beck at tion, write Tennessee Williams Festival, P.O. Box 1565, 512-495-4515. Clarksdale, MS 38614-1565; telephone 601-627-7337.

Page 6 Winter 1998 The Southern Register Southern Studies Teacher Institute Planned for June

he Center and the Institute for workshop provides an interactive, non- includes lectures on "Native Americans TContinuing Studies will sponsor threatening environment in which edu- in the South," "Southern Folk Art," the fourth annual Southern Studies cators can begin to examine their per- and "Mississippi Autobiography." Teacher Institute on June 21-26, 1998. sonal attitudes regarding race, culture, The Southern Studies Teacher Elementary and secondary teachers prejudice, and stereotyping. Tuesday's Institute provides an exciting and stim- from all over the country are invited to activities include a lecture on "Women ulating program of study that returns attend this interdisciplinary program in the Civil Rights Movement" and a teachers to their classrooms with new that provides opportunities to explore trip to the National Civil Rights insight into the Southern experience the latest scholarship on Mississippi Museum in Memphis. William Heath, and new methods to convey this knowl- and Southern history and culture. author of The Children Bob Moses Led, edge to their students. The institute This year the institute will open on will lecture on Wednesday following works across the curriculum, enhancing Sunday with a catfish fry on the grounds lectures on "Memory and Sense of all subject areas by providing connec- of the University followed by a trip to a Place" and "Mississippi Cultural tions to students' daily lives, their fami- juke joint near Oxford. Monday will be History" and a tour of William lies, and their own futures. For registra- spent in a day-long Teaching Tolerance Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak. Thursday tion information, write Charlene Dye workshop with Glenda Valentine of the includes a lecture on "Anthropology of at the Southern Studies Teacher Southern Poverty Law Center in the Blues" by Peter Aschoff and a trip to Institute, P.O.Box 879, University, Montgomery, Alabama. Through the Delta for visits to McCarty Pottery MS 38677, call her at 601-232-7282, videos, activities, group discussion, and Studio, Dockery Farms, and the Delta or e-mail her at [email protected]. a generous amount of laughter, the Blues Museum.Friday's schedule Charlene Dye

"Southerners in New York"in May Jim Henson's Muppets Featured he diverse achievements of such native Southern luminaries as William TStyron, Craig Claiborne, and Clifton Taulbert will be explored at "Southerners on Center for the in New York: A Homecoming Celebration" to be held in Oxford and at the University May 15-17, 1998.The event will explore the often complex relationship Book Poster Southerners have between New York and their Southern homeland. Featuring a variety of noted writers, artists, actors, and musicians, the conference promises to Mississippian Jim Henson's pup- offer something for Southerners, New Yorkers, and anyone else interested in the pets Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy roots of regional identity. Hosts for the three-day event are the Center and the are featured on a new poster pro- Institute for Continuing Studies. duced to promote the campaign The celebration begins Friday morning with a special welcome from conference "Building a Nation of Readers" of the sponsor Roger Malkin and University of Mississippi Chancellor Robert Khayat. Center for the Book at the Library of Malkin, chairman of Delta Pine and Land Company, is a New Yorker who now lives in Congress. The Center for the Book Scott, Mississippi. Benny Andrews, a Georgia-born painter living in New York, will was established in 1977 to stimulate discuss his works on Friday afternoon and later greet guests at an evening reception to public interest in books, reading, and be held at Oxford's Southside Gallery. On Saturday, conference sessions will feature libraries and to encourage the study such topics as growing up black and Jewish in the Mississippi Delta, corporate migra- of the role of books and print culture. tion, and blues music. Additionally, writers Willie Morris, Roy Blount, William John Y. Cole, director of the Center, Styron, and others will offer readings and remarks relating to their experiences in New said the theme of the poster "empha- York. The evening will close with a cocktail party and musical performances. sizes the importance of reading to our Highlights of Sunday's schedule include discussions led by food critics Craig Claiborne democratic way of life." The produc- and Jessica B. Harris, a seminar on Southern shape note singing by Chiquita Willis and tion of the poster coincides with Warren Steel, and an authentic Southern dinner-on-the-grounds. plans of the Library of Congress for "For generations Southerners have left their region and traveled 'North toward celebrating its bicentennial in the home' to pursue their careers in New York," said William Ferris, who initiated the year 2000. The 22-by-34 inch poster homecoming celebration while he was director of the Center. "This gathering is available for $9 in the Library of promises to be an meaningful exploration of the challenges and accomplishments Congress Sales Shop and by mail of these individuals," he said. For more information about the weekend, contact from the American Library Charlene Dye at the Institute for Continuing Studies, P.O. Box 879, University, Association, phone 800-545-2433. MS 38677; telephone 601-232- 7282; e-mail [email protected]. Bookmarks are also available at a cost Teresa Parker of $6 for a pack of 100.

The Southern Register Winter 1998 Page 7 Faulkner Celebration in Russia r over a decade the Center has that Faulkner had declined a been a spearhead for contact United States Information Rbetween scholars of Russian and Agency invitation to visit the Southern culture, and the latest stage of Soviet Union in the 1950s, sug- that relationship was reached in gesting to the American govern- December as University faculty and ment, though, that a quick end administrators attended the annual meet- would come to communism if ing of the Russian Association for the Americans would simply give Study of American Literature and 10,000 automobiles to Russians. Culture, December 1-7, 1997, in Moscow. Palievsky related this anecdote The Gorky Institute of World to the recent coming of capital- Literature of the Russian Academy of ism to Russia and the complexi- Sciences hosted the meeting, which ties it has brought, complexities included a separate program entitled that still make Faulkner relevant William Faulkner's Centenary.Yassen to Russians. Zassoursky, of Moscow State Ann Abadie, acting director of University, welcomed participants at the Center, sketched the history of the opening ceremony, and Peter the relationship between Russian Palievsky, of the Gorky Institute, also scholars and the University in her spoke, suggesting that Faulkner had opening talk, "William Faulkner: long ago been prescient about the end From Mississippi to the World." of the Soviet system. Palievsky recalled The first trip by Center personnel to Russia was in 1984, for a sympo- sium on William Faulkner, fol- lowed by attendance at two other symposia, one on Sholokov and the other ies, and other emblems of mortality. Tom on culture of the American South. Rankin, associate professor of Art and Scholars from the former Soviet Union Southern Studies, added a visual element who have been at the University for to the meeting, showing slides while dis- extended stays include, among others, cussing "Evoking William Faulkner: Palievsky, Sergei Chakovsky, and Maya Martin]. Dain and Yoknapatawpha." Koreneva, the latter of whom helped Robert Haws, chairman of the plan the conference and spoke on Department of History and former "Faulkner: The Art of Creation." Fulbright Professor of American History Most of the sessions at the Faulkner at Moscow State University, lectured on Centenary included University faculty. "Faulkner and the Historical Context." Donald Kartiganer, William Howry He brought together the fictional story Professor of Faulkner Studies at the of Charlotte Rittenmeyer in The Wild University, spoke on "Faulkner vs. the Palms and the real-life story of Francis Reader," and Robert Brinkmeyer, profes- Birkhead, a young Mississippi woman sor of English and Southern Studies, who, in 1918, had a botched abortion, placed Faulkner's work in like Rittenmeyer in Faulkner's tale, and the broader context of the filed a seduction and breach of promise interwar period of the 20th lawsuit against Mississippi Lieutenant century, addressing the Governor Lee Russell. Haws used the topic "Faulkner and the paper to explore American attitudes World at War." Another toward abortion at the time and Center faculty member, Faulkner's sensibility in portraying them. Charles Reagan Wilson, These and other papers presented at argued at the conference the December meeting in Moscow pro- that Faulkner's work grew vided the grand finale of a year-long out of the South's culture celebration the Faulkner Centenary in of death, analyzing his por- a variety of sites throughout the world. trayal of funerals, cemeter- Charles Reagan Wilson

Page 8 Winter 1998 The Southern Register Ulknerand America"-the theme of the 25th annual Faulkner and RYoknapatawpha Conference-is at 1998 Faulkner and once an obvious way of approaching the writer and a surprising one, given the kinds of critical attention he has received over the last two and a half decades. In Yoknapatawpha the early years of the conference, as was befitting its title and raison d'etre, the emphasis tended to be on Faulkner the Mississippianand Southerner, the creator Conference ofYoknapatawpha. Moreover, this was an aspect of his life and work that New Criticism, convinced that the best read- The American Novel from James to Mailer; native Southerners and award-winning ing of a writer was one that dissociated Kathryn Burgess McKee, University of actresses, will perform the Joan him from his time and place, had serious- Mississippi,author of essaysand papers on Williams short story "Twenty Will Not lyoverlooked. More recently, in a seriesof such writers as Kaye Gibbons, Ellery Come Again," which traces the conferences devoted to ideology, gender, Channing and Ralph Waldo Emerson, author's long relationship with William cultural context, and the natural world, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Josephine Faulkner, and scenes from the novel the emphasis has been on approaches that Humphreys, Bobbie Ann Mason, Light in August. might still include the local, while Sherwood Bonner, and Ellen Glasgow; Other program events will include expanding out into larger political and Peter Nicolaisen, Paedagogische the presentation of the winners of the cultural realms, but continued to ignore Hochschule, Flenburg, Germany, author ninth Faux Faulkner Contest. The con- the distinctively "national" context. of books in German on Edward Taylor, test, coordinated by the author's niece, In fact, to some extent there has been Ernest Hemingway,Joseph Conrad, Dean Faulkner Wells, is sponsored by a tendency to regard the "American" Thomas Jefferson, and Faulkner; Noel Jack Daniels Distillery, Yoknapatawpha context as a term and concept calculated Polk, University of Southern Mississippi, Press and its Faulkner Newsletter, and the to suppress the significance of both the author of A Study of William Faulkner's University of Mississippi.There will also local and the multicultural makeup of "Requiem for a Nun" and Children of the be discussions by Faulkner friends and the country itself: "American," in other Dark House:Text and Context in Faulkner; family, a slide presentation by J. M. words, as an elitist code of matters exclu- Hortense Spillers, Cornell University, Faulkner and Meg Faulkner DuChaine, sively male, white, and Anglo-with a author of numerous essayson black femi- and sessions on "Teaching Faulkner." decided bias toward the New England nist criticism, including the groundbreak- The University's John Davis Williams literary tradition-and significantly in ing "Chosen Place, Timeless People: Library will display Faulkner books, opposition to what may be most vital Some Figurations in the New World," manuscripts, photographs, and memora- about the country and about Faulkner. '''The Permanent Obliquity of an bilia; and the University Press of The result has been an inclination In(pha)llibly Straight': In the Time of the Mississippi will exhibit Faulkner books among Faulkner's best critics to steer Daughters and the Fathers," and "Mama's published by university presses through- clear of the "American" dimension of Baby,Papa's Maybe: An American out the United States. Films relating to William Faulkner. Grammar Book," and coeditor of the author's life and work will be avail- "Faulkner and America," which will Conjuring: Black Women, Fiction, and able for viewing during the week. take place July 26-31, will be the first Literary Tradition; and Linda Wagner- Tours of North Mississippi are sched- Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Martin,University of North Carolina at uled for Tuesday. Sunday there will be a Conference to address explicitly that Chapel Hill, author of Hemingway and buffet supper served a the home of Dr. complex connection: how Faulkner Faulkner: Inventors/Mas ters, Dos Passos: and Mrs. M. B. Howorth Jr., and and his work "fit" into the various Artist as American,Ellen Glasgow: Beyond Wednesday a picnic will be served at at American literary, political, and histor- Convention, Sylvia Plath: A Biography, Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak. The. ical traditions; the degree to which this Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography, conference will end on Friday, July 31, distinctively Southern writer might be, and "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein with a reception at the home of Mr. as an extension of, or contradiction to, and Her Family. and Mrs.M. C. Falkner. his Southernness, an American writer. In addition to the formal lectures, For more information about the Among the speakers who will be pre- there will be a dramatic production by conference, contact Charlene Dye at senting papers will be James Carothers, Voices of the South, a two-woman the Institute for Continuing Studies, University of Kansas, author of William company specializing in "narrative the- P.O. Box 879, The University of Faulkner's Short Stories; Richard Godden, ater": the art of adapting short stories Mississippi, University, MS 38677; University of Keele, author of Fictions of and novels for the stage from the lan- telephone 601-232- 7282; fax 601-232- Labor: William Faulkner and the South's guage and images inspired through the 5138; e-mail [email protected]. Long Revolution and Fictions of Capital: text. Alice Berry and Jenny Odie, Donald M. Kartiganer

The Southern Register Winter 1998 Page 9 Center Becomes Fourth The Center for the Study of Southern Culture gratefully acknowledges the fol- Sponsor of Natchez lowing individuals who have made memorial contributions to our programs: Literary Celebration 3/v~f!/ Betty Lou Dahlberg Ely Dale and Ann Abadie Ninth Event Set for June 4..6, 1998 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Upton Black Jr. Shelby Flowers Ferris he Center is joining forces with to Tell the Tale. Rushing is the author of the award-winning Natchez four books on Southern gardens, one of Dr. Lucien Ferris TLiterary Celebration, becoming which, Passalong Plants, won a national Al and Libby Hollingsworth the fourth sponsor of the annual event. award for the best gardening book in Lucy Somerville Howorth "We are truly excited and delighted to America in 1994. Elinor Boyce have such a prestigious organization Patricia Galloway, special projects Ashton Douglass cosponsor our literary celebration," officer at the Mississippi Department of George Ingram said Carolyn Vance Smith, one of the Archives and History, will talk about George Hite McLean Sr. founders and a current cochair of the Choctaw Indians and their relation to Al and Libby Hollingsworth NLC. Other sponsors are Copiah- the land, and historian James Wiggins Jr. Lincoln Community College, the will present "Land Fever: Settling the Irving A. Metz III National Park Service, and the Natchez Old Southwest." John Michael Vlach, Lynn Tackett National Historical Park. author of Back of the Big House:The Don Clark Triplett "It is with special pleasure that we Architecture of Plantation Slavery, will B. C. and Bonnie Crawford will cosponsor the Natchez Literary present "Reflections of Antebellum Celebration," said Ann Abadie, acting Society in Southern Landscapes." Also Elizabeth Dobbin White director of the Center."We have sup- confirmed as speakers are landscape B. C. and Bonnie Crawford ported the celebration since its found- architects Edward L. Blake Jr., whose ing in 1990 and are honored to join the talk is titled "Time, Place, and a other sponsors in this important pro- Landscape's Architecture," and Gordon The Society for Commercial gram. Through the years, the celebra- W. Chappell, who will speak on the use Archaeology (SCA) invites proposal tion has drawn both local and national of the land by early settlers for both prac- for papers for its annual conference to audiences and has provided thousands tical and aesthetic purposes. be held October 21-24, 1998. "Drivin' of people with a new and enriched In addition to Blotner, literary the Dixie: Automobile Tourism in the understanding of our region's literary scholars signed up for the program South" will explore automobile tourism experience." include Peggy W. Prenshaw, who will and its impact on the commercial-built The ninth NLC will be June 4-6, discuss Southern women writers; environment in the region. The confer- 1998, with the theme "The South: Its Sterling Plumpp, who will speak on ence will include one day of papers (20 Land and Its Literature." More than a blues and Mississippi writers; Jerry minutes each) and two days of tours dozen scholars, writers, and lecturers Ward, on Mississippi autobiographical focusing on cultural resources along the have confirmed presentations. These voices. Also, Kenneth W. Holditch and routes of the Dixie Highway in North include Joseph Blotner, who will talk Colby Kullman will discuss the use of Georgia and Tennessee. about the influence of land on the writ- the land in the dramas of Tennessee Papers should examine any aspect of ings of William Faulkner and Robert Williams, and Patrick Samway, S.J., roadside architecture or historic high- Penn Warren;Clifton Taulbert, who will examine the influence of New ways. Papers that address Southern will discuss the Mississippi Delta; Orleans on Southern Writers. resources are especially encouraged. Courtney Parker, who will speak about For additional information, contact Submissions (300-word abstract and a regional foods; and Felder Rushing, Carolyn Vance' Smith, P.O. Box 894, brief biographical summary/cv) should who will talk about yard art and old- Natchez, MS 39121-0894; telephone be sent by June I, 1998, to Steven H. time garden objections. 601-446-5874; fax 601-446-1296. Moffson, SCA Conference, c/o Blotner is the author of biographies Tickets are available by calling Natchez Historic Preservation Division, 57 of Faulkner and Warren. Taulbert's Box Office at 800-862-3259. For infor- Forsyth Street NW, Suite 500, Atlanta, books include Once Upon a Time When mation about lodging and other GA 30303. For additional details, con- We Were Colored. Parker, an award- arrangements, call the Natchez tact Moffson by telephone (404-651- winning food joutnalist, is the author Convention and Visitor Bureau at 800- 5906), fax (404-657-1040), or e-mail of How to Eat Like a Southerner and Live 647-6742. ([email protected].).

Page 10 Winter 1996 The Southern Register ,Reading the Bout Reading the South: Book Reviews and Notes by Faculty, Staff, Students, and Friends of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture

Elizabeth Spencer, Landscapes of the Heart: A into wider worlds. She studied at Vanderbilt University, Memoir. By Elizabeth Spencer. New York: working with the Agrarian legend Donald Davidson, and Random House, 1998. 346 pages. $24.00. taught for several years, including at the University of Mississippi in the late 1940s. She tells of Ella Somerville, Elizabeth Spencer's new memoir is "the Oxford lady to reckon with," one of considerable charm, with vivid whose dinners and parties were leg- details, entertaining stories, and inci- endary, and of Stark Young, who deliv- sive characterizations. She has won ered a memorable lecture during the acclaim for her nine novels and three Southern Literary Festival at the short story collections, and her new University. She moved on to New York autobiography will surely add to her City to devote full time to writing. reputation. This gentlewoman of Winning a Guggenheim Fellowship, Southern letters evokes the past, from she lived in Italy, which became her growing up in Carrollton, Mississippi, most significant literary source after the to her time in New York City, Italy, South. She finds beauty everywhere, and Canada.It is a discreet book, from the statues and fountains that are though, in which she conveys the a part of everyday life to the pleasures sights and sounds and, especially, the of the opera she discovers. She meets marvelous stories of the people she has her future husband, John Rusher, in known but not how these experiences Italy, and they eventually move to moved her emotions. She does not Canada, where she long taught. bare her soul, but her observations and Spencer picnics with Saul Bellow insights of people and places are in Paris, discusses Faulkner with his reward enough. friend Phil Stone, sips whiskey with Spencer's childhood was "a time of Philip Rahv (editor of Partisan Review), enchantment and love," and she tells attends the Bread Loaf writers' confer- of playing among pecan trees, eating ence in Vermont, has a memorable sup- cold watermelon on summer days, and per with Robert Frost and Donald roller skating through town during long afternoons, seeing Davidson, and visits often with Robert Penn Warren and, "Lawyer Yewell asleep in his office window." She summons particularly, her friend Eudora Welty, who lovingly recurs haunting memories of family and townsfolk from Carrollton, throughout. Each real-life character is finely drawn, and Mississippi. She loved visiting her aunt who "would talk a Spencer entertainingly recreates her encounters with the blue streak-visiting she called it."Her uncle had a weakness famous and the ordinary with detail and verve. for miracle cures, including the Crazy Water Crystals that Charles Reagan Wilson many Southerners trusted. Spencer comes to see that "my memories have more in common with country life as Editor's Note: Elizabeth Spencer will "come home to Mississippi" in described by Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Turgenev than with the March to participate in the fifth Oxford Conference for the Book. America of that time as we read about it in Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis." Spencer grew up with racial segregation, "the ugly sys- Body Parts. By Jere Hoar. Jackson: University tem," she calls it, taking it for granted as "part of the eternal" Press of Mississippi, 1997. 286 pages. $26.00. as a child.The vicious beating of her family's cook by a townsman seared into her soul, becoming "the greatest hor- Body Parts, the first collection by Jere Hoar, emeritus pro- ror I can in all my life remember" and a key incident in her fessor of Journalism at the University of Mississippi and an novel A Voice at the Back Door (1956). Spencer etches a attorney, contains II stories spanning the last 60 years. The memorable portrait of the complexity of the Southern social volume has been warmly received, as a few excerpts from system in general, noting its "gentle and soft" aspects but not reviews indicate. flinching from its painful memories. Kirkus Reviews: "Many of Hoar's tales are set in the same The second half of this memoir shows Spencer moving region of Mississippithat Faulkner wrote about-but his closest

The Southern Register Winter 1998 Page 11 "conservative redneck" from Sullivan's Hollow, Mississippi, ,Reading the South by birth-has seen and heard it all. Though Ignatius's antics may have ruffled a few feathers at Paradise Vendors (Toole's fictional equivalent of literary ancestor is really Erskine Caldwell. That's especially Lucky Dogs), Strahan's true in 'The Snopes Who Saved Huckaby.' ... It's a delightful deadpan delivery and story, funny as Caldwell, but gentler, with a hilarious sequel, sly wit give readers the 'How Wevel Went.' . .. By contrast, 'Tell Me It Hasn't Come impression that Ignatius to This' is mindful more of Flannery O'Connor." would have been the Tom Drury, New York Times Book Review: "In II stories, least of his worries. the writer ranges across seven decades and three or four "Ex-carnies, phony modes of storytelling to present a rough survey of the clergymen, seamen mythology and manners of the 20th-century South. Thus we between ships, disillu- find moving Depression memories next to raucous tall tales sioned doctoral candi- next to violent modern satire. Jere Hoar draws comparisons dates, the love-scorned, to O'Connor here, Barry Hannah there, Erskine Caldwell the sex-crazed, and somewhere else; and sometimes the stories take over, draw- wayfarers simply look- ing no comparison at all." ing for an alternate Brett Lott, Raleigh News and Observer: "Jere Hoar is the lifestyle"-Strahan has real thing. had them all in his Which is a blessing and a curse. The blessing: In a time employ. Reading of his when books seem increasingly homogenized and diluted, travails, you can't help but laugh. Through it all, Strahan force-fed to us through literary IV tubes hooked directly to professes to be unfazed by the circus that is his job. But even the thin drip of New York publishing conglomerates, Hoar's Strahan has his limits, as evidenced by his appraisal of one of voice is a welcome, refreshing aberration. Rock-hard and his veteran vendor's taste in attire: "Smitty came in the shop crystal-clear, his lines and their images give us a world we wearing red hot pants, fishnet stockings, pink ballerina slip- have no choice but to acknowledge as here with us, its heart pers, a ruffled tuxedo shirt, a bra, a Prince Valiant-style wig, beating so furiously we can't help but look up from the page and smoking a pipe. He insisted on working his cart like that. to our own world, and in that moment see the truth this I told him absolutely not. Board of Health regulations dictat- writer speaks. ed that the pipe had to go." The curse: It takes a university press, and along with it all the Author Jerry Strahan will speak at the fifth Oxford attendant difficulties of distribution and marketing that smaller Conference for the Book, scheduled for March 13-15,1998. presses have to get the truth out. Be ready to have to special- John T. Edge order this one, although it will certainly be worth the wait."

Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando Managing Ignatius: The Lunacy of Lucky Dogs de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms. By and Life in the Quarter. By Jerry E. Strahan. Charles Hudson. Athens: University of Georgia Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Press, 1997. 561 pages. $34.95. 1998. 264 pages. $24.95. In Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto With the posthumous publication of John Kennedy Toole's and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, Charles Hudson, one of comedic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces, LSU Press the most preeminent American scholars, places the capstone introduced the world to one of the most compelling, appalling, on a 15-year-long effort in scholarship, publications, and and ultimately entertaining characters in the history of debate. Using the chronicles of the Hernando De Soto and Southern letters. Walker Percy, in his introduction to the other early Spanish expeditions and much archeological evi- novel, termed Ignatius J. Reilly a "slob extraordinary, a mad dence, Hudson and his colleagues in the past decade and a Oliver Hardy, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." half have produced the best-argued reconstruction of the Percy claimed that Reilly has "no progenitor in any Ii~era- trail of De Soto through the Southeastern United States, and ture I know of," and anyone who has been fortunate enough in the course of this reconstruction, they have come to a to read Toole's novel would be hard pressed to take Percy to deep understanding of the native polities, or chiefdoms, task. Even more difficult than imagining Ignatius's progeni- through which De Soto and his army of 600-plus passed. tor is imagining his progeny. The mind reels. Hudson brings all of this research together in a volume that With the publication of Managing Ignatius by Jerry itself reads like one of the De Soto chronicles-only one Strahan, LSU Press has brought to light not one but many written by an acute observer, intelligent scholar, and precise possible progeny. As longtime manager of the troupe of street anthropologist. vendors who peddle Lucky Dog hot dogs in the New Orleans Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun lands the reader at French Quarter, Strahan-a historian by training and a Tampa Bay and then takes her through La Florida, as North

Page 12 Winter 199B The Southern Register America was called at the time. Hudson gives an almost day- The Natures of John and William Bartram. By by-day account of De Soto's movements and the grueling Thomas P. Slaughter. New York: Vintage Books, hardships of life on the march through a territory fiercely 1997. 304 pages. $14.00 paper. defended by its native inhabitants. In truth, it is these native inhabitants, and not De Soto, that Hudson has pursued so Attention, bird people, travelogue people, art people, doggedly. But it was De Soto's footsteps through the 16th- plant people, environmental people, 18th-century people, century South that led the way to understanding people people, and Cold Mountain fans: here is the book for Southeastern Indian society at the moment of European con- deep winter reading. In tact. Through painstaking examination of De Soto's move- The Natures of John and ments, Hudson and his colleagues were able not only to place William Bartram Thomas Southeastern Indian chiefdoms on a modern map, but also to P. Slaughter, a history discover something about the internal structure and dynam- professor at Rutgers ics of these political orders, the daily lives of the people, and University, examines the relationships between chiefdoms. the lives of John The Indians that De Soto encountered were quite differ- Bartram, one the great- ent from the Southern Indians with which most people are est botanists of the familiar. The people living in the South during the 16th-cen- Colonial era, and his tury were constituents of well-defined political territories, son, William, America's ruled by an elite believed first native-born natu- to be descended from the ralist painter. Not only Sun, and with political does Slaughter use the and religious centers lives of the two Bartrams dominated by large earth- to illuminate the worth en mounds and other of 18th-century science, monumental architec- exploration, and envi- ture. They were also heirs ronmental ethics (not to a centuries-old mili- such a modern concept, after all), but he examines the tary tradition. Apalachee, father/son relationship of the men, especially the curse of the Cofitachequi, Coosa, son who must grow up in the father's very long shadow. Tascaluza, Quizquiz, William's fecklessness, melancholia, and bad luck make his Guachoya, Quigualtam, life much the more interesting of the two; he eventually Anilco-these are the became his own man, writing his Travels (Penguin, $13.95 names of the some of the paper), in which are many exquisite descriptions and water- South's ancient chief- colors of the Southeast, its flora and fauna and native people. doms that Hudson Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain, used Bartram's restores to our historical Travels as the spiritual compass and crutch upon which the consciousness. Moreover, wounded Civil War soldier, Inman, depended to guide him Hudson brings these chiefdoms to the forefront of the histor- home. (See Southern Register, Fall 1997.) ical stage as the powerful caciques, or rulers, and their fearless Thomas Slaughter, who will speak at the fifth Oxford warriors confront, cajole, harangue, acquiesce, accommodate, Conference for the Book, March 13-15,1998, is also the edi- and otherwise interact with Hernando De Soto and the oth- tor of William Bartram: Travels and Other Writings (New York: ers in this premodern Spanish army trekking through La Library of America, 1996). Florida in what turned out to be a futile search for riches and Lisa N. Howorth an altogether doomed expedition. Hudson's narrative style emphasizes the daily encounters between the knights of Spain and the warriors of the Sun as single events, with some Life in Black and White: Family and Community being mundane and with some being quite spectacular. in the Slave South. By Brenda E. Stevenson. New However, he never loses sight of the larger significance with- in which these encounters took place, and he places all of York: Oxford University Press, 1996.457 pages. these events within a longer-term historical context. Th~ end $35.00, cloth, $16.95 paper. result is not only an account of the De Soto expedition and a Stevenson details the differences of the meanings family reconstruction of the conquistador's route, but also an extra- and community had for free people and slaves in antebellum ordinary volume on the life and ways of 16th-century Native Loudoun County, Virginia. While whites defined themselves Americans in the South. and their hopes for permanence and status through their Robbie Ethridge households, slaves struggled to maintain control over their family lives. Like many historians, Stevenson stresses the adaptive nature and malleable definition of slave families, but unlike most, she sees the potential for tension, frustration,

The Southern Register Winter 1998 Page 13 Besides giving accounts of people, places and events ~eading the South which have gone on to become synonymous with the blues, The World Don't Owe Me Nothing is also an amazing read because of Honeyboy's gift for storytelling and language. For and suffering that accompanied that adaptability. Full of the those off-put by the absence of footnotes, Michael Frank has stories of individuals and addressing an important topic, this added appendices to clarify the dates and other particulars of fine book may become a classic in Southern scholarship. the stories. Ted Ownby The World Don't Owe Me Nothing is a major accomplish- ment in the field of black autobiography and is a must-read for anyone with an interest not only in the blues, but in Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Afro-American history, Southern culture, or oral history. Racial Identities among Southern Baptists, Scott McCraw 1865-1925. By Paul Harvey. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.330 Conversation with the Blues. By Paul Oliver. pages. $17.95. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Studying all Baptists in the postbellum South, Harvey's Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. work proceeds along two parallel tracks, showing how whites and then African Americans dealt with four themes: organiz- $49.95. ing churches and associations, addressing issues of middle- This is a beautiful hardback reissue of Paul Oliver's 1965 class respectability, the place of preachers in a congregation- classic which, along with Blues Fell This Morning and his al polity, and ideas and limits of progressivism. In doing so, other works, established him as one of the earliest scholarly Harvey shows that Baptists were a complex group, full of exponents of the blues. Compiled from interviews Oliver questions and tensions and not the group so many have conducted in 1960, Conversation with the Blues features the found so easy to stereotype. words of blues performers from New Orleans to Chicago and Ted Ownby all pertinent points in between. We are given the words of rural and urban artists of various levels of popularity or obscurity speaking on all aspects of blues culture. The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life Oliver's contributions include a lengthy introduction that And Times Of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy reveals his love and respect for the blues as a poetic medium of black culture, detailed notes on the speakers, and stunning Edwards. By David Honeyboy Edwards. photographs, which alone would make a formidable volume. Foreword by Albert Murray. Chicago: Chicago This new edition is accompanied by a CD that includes Review Press, 1997. $24.00. some of the book's moving narratives that were taken from This is the oral autobiography of Honeyboy Edwards, as Oliver's field tapes of the 1960s. told to Janis Martinson and Michael Frank, who are to be Scott McCraw congratulated for deftly piecing together interviews with Honeyboy conducted over a five-year span without sacrific- ing the distinctive, highly readable flow of his speech. Southern Writers. Photographs by David G. Honeyboy Edwards was born in 1915 in Sunflower County, Speilman and Text by William W. Starr. Mississippi, and could be the original die used to cast the Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, Mississippi-born, Chicago-bred itinerant bluesman.Edwards, a man who proclaimed early in life that "I had three waysof mak- 1997. 150 pages. $24.95. ing it: the women and my guitar and the dice," gives firsthand This pictorial of 72 critically and popularly acclaimed accounts of plantation life in the Mississippi Delta including writers of the contemporary American South on their native the flood of 1927. Honeyboy also shares the particulars of small ground reveals each bard's sense of place, work methods, and town dances, vagrancy laws, and county cotton farms that were habits. Photographer David G.Speilman delights in the often worked by black men brought in on trumped-up charges interplay between a writer's work space and his literary genre coincidentally at harvest time. . while book critic Starr offers insightful sketches that attend Driven by an amazing wanderlust, Honeyboy experienced to each subject's life, work, and critical reception. This is a much that has become part of the blues lexicon. He often photographic album of the best sort, picturing a distinct time traveled by hopping legendary trains such as the Pea Vine, in the literary life of the South. With its informal portraits of the Southern, and the Yellow Dog.He performed in such favorite and as yet unread authors, it is a visual guidebook to blues Meccas as Memphis,Helena,Dallas's Deep Ellum, and contemporary Southern literature. Chicago's Maxwell Street Market in its prime with a list of companions that include Big Joe Williams, Tommy For these and other books call McClennan,Charlie Patton, Memphis Minnie, and Robert 800-648-4001 or fax 601-234-9630. Johnson to name just a few. 160 Courthouse Square· Oxford, Mississippi 38655

Page 14 Winter 1998 The Southern Register News of the Spirit Lee Smith Talks About Southern Writing, Women's Humor, and Naming Her Stories

Lee Smith recently left her North Carolina that I never suspected before.Faulkner is work means something less or some- home, where she teaches creative writing at rewarding to read at whatever point you thing different to people outside the North Carolina State University, to visit are in life. South? Oxford and read at Square Books from her I do think there still exists a certain newest short story collection, News of the You also said during that interview: prejudice against regional writing. Spirit. Smith has written two other volumes "All great literature is regional." You Certainly an anti-Southern prejudice still of short fiction and nine novels, among them praised the "exquisitely specific" nature exists unless a writer somehow manages to Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies, The of regional writing. Devil's Dream, and Saving Grace. Can you expand on that idea of a connec- I watched you talk about the centen- tion between place nial of William Faulkner's birth on and writing? TV with Jim Lehrer, and 1 thought Well, the great we might start by going back to some thing about the novel of your remarks on that program. You is that it confirms the said: "I read Absalom, Absalom! like everyday, and it tracks some people read the Bible." Can you people through time in talk about that? a way no previous form When I first read Faulkner 1was in col- of narrative ever did. lege, and 1 was already trying to write The paradox, of course, things. At that point I was blown away by is that any writer who the language.I was just drunk on the lan- would be universal has guage. I really don't think I understood a got to first of all be whole lot of what was going on. 1think I absolutely specific to her own or his own break through that or overcome it in one was drawn to it because like anybody who time and place. Faulkner, of course, is so way or another. It's sort of an anti-corn- is from the South and who would write wonderful an example of that in this pone thing. It particularly has to do with about it, I also was alienated from it. I country. The more specific you can be to dialect. You write in dialect at your peril, think I really identified with "1 hate it! I time and place and circumstance, then whether it is African American or rural hate it!" in a way that I never understood the more universal the work will be South or Appalachian or just whatever it at that point. Later, I was interested in because people reading fiction don't want might be. There's a certain set of associa- the sense of place because I come from to be in their own heads; they want to be tions that people (not people in the another place that's made an indelible in the world of the fiction, and you have South, but elsewhere) have that must be imprint on me and that fascinated me. to give them a sufficient world. overcome, and that's done in various Later, I think, as I was trying to write, I ways. I think a good example is Cold was interested in the writing itself and in How do you connect that sort of Mountain, which is written in this beauti- the technique. One thing I didn't get to specificity to the notion that great ful, sort of 19th-century prose and, say on that show was that Faulkner wrote writing is universal? although it's taking place in the South each one of his novels with a different Well, to be abstract does not mean to and it's about the Civil War, yet it doesn't narrative strategy.He was above all a be universal. This is the paradox. Young have the cornpone thing that turns peo- great innovator, a totally experimental writers are always turning in these stories ple away. It is not a first-person narrative, writer, the first great experimental writer, where nobody has a name and 1say "why and of course the dialect, when it's used in I think, in this country. Those novels are don't you give them a name?" It's "he and conversation, doesn't turn people off. I all like doors that any would-be writer can she"; the charact~rs are abstractions. So I think another thing that turns people off walk through, and so it's exciting to read say: give them a name, put a shirt on is the notion of the South as violent. For Faulkner when you're trying to learn to them, give them a kind of earring, are instance, I think one of the great, great write. Later, after a certain age, you dis- they wearing sandals or are they wearing writers of all time is Larry Brown. I think cover mortality and then Faulkner makes wingtips? The more specific you can be, Father and Son should have the readership a whole different kind of sense and you the more universal, and this can be hard that Cold Mountain is getting. I think discover all kinds of things like loss and at first to get across to students. they both should have it. But Larry's peo- unredeemable sadness of one kind or ple are violent, and, like dialect, that another. Then you get to a whole bunch Is region ever a barrier to understand- of other things-ideas and attitudes- ing? For instance, do you think your continued on next page

The Southern Register Winter 1998 Page 15 scares people. Inman [a character in Cold what they mean." Can you say more ical consequence of living that way. That Mountain], on the other hand, has simply about that? topic was scary to me. I didn't know I was fallen into a violent world. He has to deal I think it's only recently that women writing about that specifically. I was just with it, but he didn't create it; it's not feel perfectly comfortable in saying what writing the story of Crystal, but I think coming out of his own personality. I think they mean. And a number of them still making it funny at certain points enabled there are things that are part and parcel of don't. Women of my generation were me to write it. The same is true for "The the Southern experience, and if you write brought up to make other people feel Happy Memories Club" in News of the about them in a certain way, you are going good, you know. My mother's great quote Spirit. I think we're all scared of aging and to mystify or throw off readers in other was "a lady never lets a silence fall." That of dying and of having our loved ones parts of the country. is terrifying!Youwere supposed to smooth change beyond recognition and losing the the way, make other people very comfort- things we've given our life for. Alice You praised Faulkner for his ability to able. Part of making other people feel Scully's language and her teaching are all combine comedy and tragedy. It seems comfortable can be to not state a prefer- so important to her in that story, and so to me that you have that same ability- ence, or to not state an opinion too those losses are terrifying. The best way I to make something funny and at the strongly. But with humor I think you can can touch it is through humor. It makes same time profoundly serious. say something and make a little joke of it. me able to deal with those issues. And I Well, I don't know. I think that maybe You can say what you want to say without hope it would make someone else able to I am one of those people who take an it being threatening to someone else. You read about them. essentially tragic view, a very serious view, can get what you want to say across with- and the thing is if you do that then you've out offending. Humor is a corrective. I Let's talk some more about News of got two choices: you can just go in the mean, there may be something that we're the Spirit. You seem to be equally closet and close the door after you or you trying to get across, and we just don't good at writing short stories and nov- can make a joke and figure out ways to want to hurt someone's feelings or rock els, but is your writing process differ- make it through the world. I think that the boat. Women have become very ent? Do you start on something and humor is often very, very helpful. I came adept at this, particularly, I think, women say-this has got to be a story? from a funny family that just loved mak- earlier who were not in positions where Actually, I do. I kind of know what it's ing jokes and telling stories. For me, one they could exercise power directly. They going to be. But it takes me a long time to of the functions of story and of writing is had to find all sorts of ways to get things do stories and I don't think they're really that it provides a way to make it through done the way they should be done and the very good. They're not what I think sto- the night anyhow. way they wanted them done without ries should be; mine are more like little angering people. collapsed novels. They have too much in Is reading out loud part of your writ- them. I have trouble paring them down ing process? Do you stop and think: Particularly Southern women I imagine. and making them be what a story should "how does this sound?" Absolutely. That's where, of course, be. The stories are not formally formed No. But I do think that part of the the whole stereotype of the steel mag- enough. But I love the shorter form. I process for me is certainly oral. I mean, I nolia comes from, the one who's smil- particularly like the IOO-pagestory. It's an do hear a voice in my head literally when ing and cracking the whip. Women unsalable length, but it's my favorite I'm writing and oftentimes it is the first had to become adept at both if they length. I love that completely unpublish- person voice of the speaker or the narra- wanted to take care of children and get able forsaken length. tor. That was particularly true for News things done. of the Spirit because this collection is spe- "The Bubba Stories" in News of the cific people's stories. The book has only What has the humor in your work Spirit-is that you? gotten one bad review, and it was in allowed you to say or to do that you Yeah, oh yeah, it really is. That very Boston. Somebody sent it to me. It's might not have been able to otherwise? painful period of the writing class scenes is hysterical-it's written by this woman I think now I feel very comfortable in me. Although I did not have an affair who hates it. She says the book is just writing about anything in any way I want with my teacher, nor did I make up a like those people who come up to you on to. But earlier on, humor allowed me to brother. But those were some of my ideas the street and pull at your sleeve and write about things that were scary to me. about wanting to write. start telling you a long story that you did- In an earlier novel, Black Mountain n't have time to hear. And they don't Breakdown, for instance, I was writing What holds this collection of stories know when they should leave you alone. about passivity among women. There I together? "Who are these insistent women in this was writing about something that I was These stories were all about women book?" she asks. But of course, it's true in feeling very strongly and that I think my telling stories. Two of them messed me up a way. She's right. generation felt-again that thing of being and turned into novels. Saving Grace was raised to please other people, your mother going to be one of these and she would When we were having our earlier or your husband or whoever-but not not quit. She just would not quit. But I conversation, you said:"Women have being raised to wake up one day and won- always used humor to help them say der who you are, which, of course, is a log- continued on next page

Page 16 Winter 1998 The Southern Register paper exploring the issue of poverty in Southern Studies 401 Southern culture. Representative papers from last fall's class include Poverty and Culture in the 20th ..Century South Tamika McCullar's study of Richard Wright's literary depiction of poverty outhern Studies and History historical, anthropological, and socio- and family life and Jason Wester's SProfessor Ted Ownby's Southern logical texts related to poverty in the analysis of economic change at the Studies undergraduate seminar, SST South, including Pete Daniel's Breaking Choctaw reservation in Philadelphia, 40 I, is a study of the cultural response the Land, James Agee and Walker Mississippi. Several students chose to to poverty in the South. Noting that Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, research poverty in their hometowns one of the apparent continuities in the Nicholas Lemann's The Promised Land, when writing their papers. For exam- South is the degree of poverty and the Harry Crews's Classic Crews, and ple, Lesley Ayres of Hammond, importance of poverty upon the identi- Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Louisiana, wrote about the need for ties of its inhabitants, Ownby has struc- Carolina. Ownby was pleased with the public transportation in the rural areas tured the course to explore the follow- students in last fall's class, noting their of her parish while Lindsay Nusloch of ing questions: (I) How have poor high interest in the course: "Although New Orleans, Louisiana, recorded her Southerners interpreted and solved many people think most of our observations of the community of lower their own economic problems? (2) [Southern Studies] undergraduate stu- income residents living in her city's How have Southerners who are not dents come from upper-class back- Catholic-sponsored AIDS care clinic. poor interpreted poverty and dealt with grounds, the topic of poverty was alive Overall these students gained a better it? (3) Does poverty inspire particular and personal. It was the most talkative understanding of poverty and the forms of creativity? (4) How has group of undergraduate students I have nature of cultural responses to it. Southern poverty changed with the ever taught." For more information on the decline of agricultural work and the In addition to taking a final exami- Southern Studies 401 seminar, contact growth of Sun Belt cities? nation and participating in class discus- Ted Ownby by phone at 601-232-5360 To attempt to answer these ques- sion on the readings, each student in or via e-mail at [email protected]. tions, SST 401 students read fictional, SST 401 is required to write a research Allison Vise Finch had her in there initially as a story. And then also I had a story that became The Christmas Letters. It was just 120 pages, Notes on Contri.utors but it was published separately. And so I feel like I've been working on this book Charlene Dye coordinates Public Program on the Donald M. Kartiganer, author of The Fragile for a long time. I do have trouble con- South for the Institute of Continuing Studies at the Threacl: The Meaning of Form in Faulkner's Novels, is trolling my characters. University of Mississippi. She is completing an M.A. the Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the degree in Southern Studies. University of Mississippi. How did "News of the Spirit" get to John T. Edge, a graduate student in Southern Studies, Scott McCraw is a graduate of the Southern Studies be the title story? writes about Southern food and travel. At present, he is master's program. He is currently working at the Center Actually I had wanted to name some- at work on the Southern Culture Cookbook, to be pub- as on administrative assistant. lished by Putnam in 1999. thing "News of the Spirit" for a long time. Kathryn McKee is James M. and Madeleine But originally the title I had on that par- Robbie Ethridge is one of two James M. and McMullan Assistant Professor of Southern Studies at the ticular story was "We Don't Love with Madeleine McMullan Professors who joined the University of Mississippi. She also holds a joint appoint- Our Teeth," and I really wanted that. University faculty in the 1997 Fall Semester. Aspecial- ment in English. ist in Southeastern Indians, she holds an appointment Ted Ownby, author of Subcluing Satan: Religion, That's what the characters in the story in Southern Studies and Anthropology. Recreation, anclManhoocl in the Rural South, 1865·1920, say to the dog ••• Allison Vise Finch, a Southern Studies graduate stu- holds a joint appointment in Southern Studies and History. dent who holds a B.A. in English from Baylor I really wanted that title and every- Linda Peal White, on accomplished editor and University, is currently studying the effects of major body at the publisher thought it was sort author, is a writer for the public relations bnd market· chain stores on small business owners in the South. of kinky and kept imagining some kind of ing department at the University of Mississippi. weird sexual thing! So then I thought of Susan Glisson is a do~toral student at the College of Charles Reagan Wilson, a Southern Studies and William and Mary. She received a moster's degree in "News of the Spirit." But I liked "We History professor, is academic director for the Center. He Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in Don't Love with Our Teeth" as a title. is coauthor of the Encyclopeclia of Southern Culture and 1994 after earning two B.A.degrees, one in history the author of Juclgment ancl Grace in Dixie: Southern and the other in religion, at Mercer University. Conducting the interview was Kathryn Faiths FromFaulkner to Elvisand 8aptizecl in Blood McKee, one of two James M. and Madeleine Lisa N. Howorth is the editor of The South: A McMullan Professors at the University of Treasury of Art ancl Literature and author of Yellow Mississippi. McKee has a joint appointment Dogs, Hushpuppies, ancl Bluetick Houncls: The Official in Southern Stwlies and English. "Encye/opeclia of Southern Culture" Quiz Book.

The Southern Register Winter 1998 Page 17 vansBurnham Harrington died in Welty and Robert Penn Oxford on December 1, 1997, after Warren, critic Malcolm Ebattling courageously with cancer Cowley, actress Ruth for several months. He will be missed by Ford, and photographer family, friends, colleagues, students, and Martin Dain gathered an endless list of persons whose lives he to pay tribute to enriched during his n years. William Faulkner. Harrington grew up in Mississippi, Festival president again living in several towns where his father in 1976 and 1987, was a Baptist minister and, no matter Harrington organized where the family lived, vying with his addresses and readings mother for each issue of the Saturday by such writers as Evening Post. "My mother was a great Robert Canzoneri, reader, and she and I would hide the Beverly Lowry, Willie Post from each other until we had read Morris, William Styron, all the fiction," he said. "I loved to read and Sterling Plumpp. so much and decided I would like to Two participants in write stories like those I read. I think it the 1965 Southern was that simple." Literary Festival-Eudora Welty and and serving on the search committee After completing his B.A. at Ruth Ford-returned to Oxford in for its first director, he for many years Mississippi College in 1948, Harrington 1987 for the University's Faulkner and was one of six instructors for the popu- was a high school teacher, first in Yoknapatawpha Conference, an annual lar team-taught course Introduction to Decatur and then in Oxford. In 1955 six-day event Harrington helped orga- Southern Studies. he became an instructor at the nized in 1974 and directed for the next Harrington was, as Jim Dees wrote in University of Mississippi, where he 20 years. While orchestrating lectures, the Oxford Eagle, "one of the true trail- later earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees discussions, readings, tours, and other blazers on Oxford's path to literary emi- and was promoted to professorial rank activities, Harrington selected and nence." But his interests were not exclu- in 1962. He chaired the English arranged passages from Faulkner's work sively literary or academic. Dees notes Department from 1978 until 1987. for dramatic readings called Voices from that Harrington was also, along with his A beloved teacher of literature and Yoknapatawpha, with various versions wife, Betty, a long-time supporter of free- creative writing, Harrington drew on his presented at the annual conference. dom of speech causes such as those cham- own experiences as a dedicated reader For the 1976 meeting he wrote the pioned by the ACLU and Common and as an accomplished author. Among book and lyrics for The Battle of Cause. He attributed some of his political his publications are The Prisoners, three Harrykin Creek, a musical comedy convictions to the Meredith crisis at the other novels, numerous short stories, and based on a Faulkner short story. University in 1962. "That night when I many essays.His story "The Knife in the Richard Howorth, one of his former saw the MississippiHighway Patrol incit- Dark" was adapted for television by Rod students and now proprietor of Square ing people to throw rocksat Meredith was Serling in the 1950s, with actor Paul Books in Oxford, said he will always the night I became an activist," Newman taking the leading role. Also, remember how Harrington "brought Harrington said. he wrote the script for Faulkner's literature to life. He was just a tremen- All who knew Evans Harrington Mississippi:Land into Legend, a documen- dous teacher. Because of what he did would no doubt agree with Barry tary film, and the book and lyrics for two here and the people he brought to the Hannah, who said "I don't know of a musical comedies. University, specifically Barry Hannah, better reader, literary man, and uncom- In addition to teaching courses and the University has a reputation for a mon gentleman." All who knew him nurturing creative writers, Harrington writing program that's known across will continue to miss him and to rejoice organized a number of outstanding pro- the nation." . in his memory. grams featuring writers and their work. A Harrington's broad intellectual and Memorial contributions to the leader in the Southern Literary Festival academic interests were evidenced by Evans Harrington Creative Writing for more than 30 years, he contributed to his serving as an enthusiastic member Scholarship Fund, which provides an many annual meetings and planned mem- of the planning committee for the annual award of $1,000 to promising orable programs for sessions held at the Center for the Study of Southern young writers in poetry and fiction, University during his three terms as presi- Culture, and he remained one of its may be sent to the University of dent. In 1965 he organized a three-day strongest advocates. In addition to Mississippi Foundation, P.O. Box 249, meeting during which authors Eudora planning and speaking for the Center University, MS 38677.

Page 18 Winter 1998 The Southern Register Gift Ideas /rom the Center for the Study of Southern Culture Raisin' Cotton Raisin' Colton depicts life on a R A IS lC!ollon Mississippi Delta cotton plantation from 193B to 1942, as seen through the home movie camera The Valentine, the Museum of the Life and History of of Emma Knowlton Lytle. Mrs. Richmond, Virginia, opened an exhibition on January 16 to Lytle donated the originalBmm kick off its centennial year. The exhibit, Settlement to Streetcar silent home movies to the Southern Media Archive. Producer Karen Glynn has inter- Suburbs: Richmond and Its People, highlights events, institutions, woven these movies with a recently recorded commentary from Mrs. Lytle. Raisin' and individuals that have shaped the city's development. It Colton depicts the full cycle of a cotton crop from breaking ground, to making a bale, includes biographical sketches of city residents and a time line to weaving the cloth in the textile mills of North Carolina. The film was recently fea- in the shape of the James River. For more information, call 804- tured in an article in Soybean Digest. 1997, 34 minutes. V9997 $25.00 649-0711. The Oain & Cofield Collection Posters Alsace to America: Discovering a Southern Jewish Heritage, an High quality lB" x 24" duotone posters featuring timeless photographs of exhibit presented by the Museum of the Southern Jewish William Faulkner Experience, will be on display at the Mtel Center in downtown Jackson from May 29 to August 31,1998. The exhibit is being presented as a companion to the Mississippi International Commission on Culture's Splendors ofVersaiUes exhibit. Alsace to America reflects the life and times of 19th-century Jewish pio- neers who immigrated to the Mississippi River regions from Alsace and Lorraine provinces of France and Germany. Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster by calling 601-355-5252. For more information call the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience at 601-362-6357.

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