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the newsletter of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture • Summer 2011 the university of mississippi New Faculty Members Join Center

The Center welcomes four new faculty members to the Southern Studies program this fall. Bringing the number of Southern Studies faculty to 10, these professors will bring new specialties to the Center and add to current interests. Two of the new faculty members are tenure-track assistant professors in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and the other two will teach classes in both Southern Studies and history. Angela “Jill” Cooley Barbara Harris Combs comes to the Center from Georgia, where she has ence at Xavier University in her home- been teaching sociology at Shorter town of Cincinnati and receiving a law College. She received her PhD in soci- degree at Ohio State. Combs wrote a dis- ology at Georgia State University after Jodi Skipper sertation entitled “The Ties That Bind: studying both English and political sci- The Role of Place in Racial Identity Formation, Social Cohesion, Accord, and Discord in Two Historic, Black Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhoods.” A joint appointment in Southern Studies and Anthropology, Jodi Skipper spent 2010–11 as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Carolina. An anthropologist with archaeologi- cal training, Skipper wrote a dissertation at the University of Texas entitled “In the Neighborhood: City Planning, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage Politics at St. Paul United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas.” A Grambling BA graduate and native of Louisiana, Barbara Harris Combs Michele Grigsby Coffey continued on page 3 the D i r e c t o r ’ s C o l u m n

As I write, the movie version of The Help is about to come out. Based on the ex- Published Quarterly by traordinarily popular novel by Mississippi native Kathryn Stockett, The Help seems The Center for the Study of Southern Culture likely to become a popular reference point for talking about the South. It is intrigu- The University of Mississippi ing and ultimately mysterious how some movies become central to discussions about Telephone: 662-915-5993 the South and other movies do not. For example, one can refer to Steel Magnolias; Fax: 662-915-5814 E-mail: [email protected] Tyler Perry’s Madea movies; Gone with the Wind; Cool Hand Luke; I Am a Fugitive www.olemiss.edu/depts/south from a Chain Gang; Mississippi Burning; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; In the Heat of the Night; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; and others with confidence that most people will know IN THIS ISSUE them, while countless equally interesting films (I’m a big fan ofA Face in the Crowd, Summer 2011 for example, and Passion Fish) seldom enter our discussions. 1 New Faculty Members Join Center As a book, The Help has been subject of a lively controversy. A story of four inter- 2 Director’s Column twined voices of women in early 1960s Jackson, the book tells about work in kitchens 3 Living Blues News and childcare and about limits and potential of careers for African American and white 4 Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series: women, raises issues of the definitions of family life, and dramatizes questions about the Fall 2011 nature of relationships between employers and employees who spend a great deal of time 4 Lynn & Stewart Gammill Gallery Exhibition Schedule under the same roof. Some readers were troubled that a white writer presumed to speak 5 Ann Abadie, Longtime Center in the voices of African American characters without showing enough conflict, suspi- Associate Director, Retires from Post cion, and potential resentment. For those readers, the book seems too easy. Other read- 6 Call for Papers: Faulkner & ers, criticizing the book from a different perspective, thought Stockett was too relent- Yoknapatawpha “50 Years after Faulkner” lessly harsh on most of the employers of The Help. One Southern Studies MA student 7 Charles Reagan Wilson Explores wrote a paper last year analyzing the various arguments she found on online chat sites. Southern Spirit in New Book Those arguments will likely continue, and I have no desire to address them here. What I 8 Education Volume Latest Release in New Encyclopedia Series, with Special like about the book version of The Help, and what I hope to see in the movie, is that it dra- Lecture Planned matizes the difficulty of doing good documentary work. The central character, nicknamed 9 Sally Lyon Leaves Center Staff Skeeter Phelan, is a smart, talented, and well-intentioned white University of Mississippi 9 Modern Political Archives graduate whose passion it is to gain greater understanding of the African American wom- 9 Southern Literary Trail—Trailfest 2011 en who work in the homes of white women in Jackson. Her efforts to get to know those 12 Media and Documentary Projects women, to report the stories right and complete, and to deal with them in a responsible Partners with Center way form the drama of the book. The book details her process of encouraging, editing, and 13 Southern Studies Academic Alums transcribing their material, which leads to the completion of an anonymously published 15 Reading the South 19 Southern Foodways Register book-within-the-book called The Help, with the names of its subjects also anonymous. 23 Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha 2011: If Skeeter were alive in 2011 she would be a Southern Studies student. She would “Faulkner and Geography” not be making up her own rules of how to do interviews—she would take SST 533 with 24 2011 Eudora Welty Awards David Wharton and study oral history techniques, ethics, and good and bad examples. She 24 Ripley Main Street Association Hosts might learn documentary photography, and she would volunteer to help at the Southern Faulkner Heritage Festival, November Foodways Symposium and Oxford Conference for the Book. In history, gender studies, and 4–5, 2011 Southern Studies classes she would read Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens by Rebecca 25 12th Annual Faulkner Fringe Festival Moves to Prime Time Sharpless and maybe Within the Plantation Household by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and she 26 Contributors would study Mississippi in the civil rights era. In English, Southern Studies, and African 27 MIAL Awards Gala American Studies classes, she would read literature and memoirs, probably Ann Moody’s 29 19th Annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Coming of Age in Mississippi and maybe Willie Mae by Elizabeth Kytle or Idella Parker’s Williams Festival, October 14–15, 2011 Idella: Marjorie Rawlings’ “Perfect Maid,” which address issues about domestic labor and 29 Two 2011 Book Conference Speakers what things people say and what they keep quiet. She would study the intersections of Receive Prestigious Awards class, economics, politics, gender, race, and labor in classes in the social sciences, and if she 30 Southern Culture Catalog were here this fall, she could take SST 555, Foodways and Southern Culture. If she did it REGISTER STAFF right, she could try to write her book as part of an MA or honors thesis. In a scholarly way, Editor: James G. Thomas Jr. she would think about the ethics of documentary work and the possibilities of romanticiz- Graphic Designer: Susan Bauer Lee ing or exoticizing or projecting or getting it all wrong, and she would do her best. Mailing List Manager: Mary Hartwell Howorth And today’s Skeeter could, in Southern Studies, learn how to make her own Editorial Assistant: Sally Cassady Lyon movie. Starting this fall, Southern Studies will have a closer-than-ever partnership Lithographer: RR Donnelley Magazine Group with Media and Documentary Projects. This partnership has been friendly and productive for several years, producing numerous excellent documentaries and teach- The University complies with all applicable laws regard- ing affirmative action and equal opportunity in all its ac- ing filmmaking techniques to rookie documentarians. Today’s Skeeter might take tivities and programs and does not discriminate against advantage of the University’s new cinema studies minor. And while making her anyone protected by law because of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or status as a veteran own film, she could study films by reading Deborah Barker and Katie McKee’s -ed or disabled veteran. ited volume, American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary, looking forward to the

Page 2 Summer 2011 The Southern Register Media volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and taking a spring class with Zandria Robinson on issues Living Blues News in the films of Tyler Perry. With her Issue #214 of Living Blues is now on news- degree, she could do about whatever stands and includes a number of engaging in- she wanted, and would not, like 1960s terviews and features. Our feature story de- Skeeter Phelan, have to leave the state. tails the Memphis soul band the Bo-Keys. As I write, important changes, de- The current group mixes veteran ’60s and scribed elsewhere in this issue, are taking ’70s soul musicians with younger players who place. Four new faculty members are join- grew up loving their music. Two of the band’s ing the Center for the Study of Southern highest-profile vets are drummer Howard Culture, and the Center will have two Grimes and guitarist Charles “Skip” Potts. new associate directors. Our friend Sally We visit with them and get their take on the Lyon, who for six years has with great hu- Memphis soul scene then and now. mor dealt with registration issues, annu- LB also visits with 86-year-old West al reports, and the handwriting of two di- Virginia bluesman Nat Reese, a link to the rectors, is moving to Memphis with hus- bygone days when itinerant musicians en- band Dalton and daughter Lucy. And it tertained workers in the coal camps of the is not possible to describe what Associate region. His musical style sits at the intersec- Director Ann Abadie has meant to the tion of jazz, gospel, and blues. Center. Its first and most committed staff The new issue also includes a photo essay on Chicago’s famed Maxwell Street. member, Ann has since 1977 been in- Photographer Paul Procaccio stumbled on the lively Maxwell Street blues scene volved in leading, imagining, support- while looking for car parts with his brother in the early 1980s, and these photos, pub- ing, organizing, funding, publicizing, and lished here for the first time, capture that wonderful, wild, lost world. We conclude inspiring most of the activities at the with reviews of a number of new releases, including CDs by Quintus McCormick, Center, often while also editing its prose. Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, Rosie Ledet, and George “Harmonica” Smith. This year Ann is changing jobs, moving Finally, you will soon be able to findLiving Blues more easily on the news- into a part-time position to help com- stand. We recently joined the Hal Leonard Magazine Program. Hal Leonard plete the Center’s encyclopedia projects. Corporation is one of the largest music book publishers in the world, and this If Skeeter were here, Ann would teach association will make Living Blues available at music stores throughout the her to use The Chicago Manual of Style. country. Pick up a copy of Living Blues at your local bookstore, music store, or newsstand, or subscribe today at our website: www.livingblues.com. Ted Ownby Mark Camarigg continued from 1

Skipper has turned to issues of racial African American Activism and Protest tion. Combs and Cooley will be teach- definition and Creole and Cajun iden- in Depression-Era New Orleans” is the ing Southern Studies 101 classes in the tity in some Louisiana parishes for her title of the 2010 dissertation Visiting fall, and they will teach more special- next research project. Assistant Professor of History and ized seminar courses in the spring. For the first time, the Center will Southern Studies Michele Grigsby With research specialties that in- have a postdoctoral fellow and visiting Coffey wrote at the University of South clude city life, place and movement, ac- assistant professor in Southern food- Carolina. Coffey was an undergraduate tivism, racial definition, foodways, the ways—a position funded by the efforts at Baylor University, and she has taught law, memory and preservation, church of the Southern Foodways Alliance. numerous history courses at both the life, history, and the contemporary Angela “Jill” Cooley, with a new PhD University of South Carolina and the South, and with educations stretch- from the University of Alabama, will University of Texas of the Permian Basin. ing from Texas to South Carolina, the be teaching Southern Studies 555, The new faculty members will im- new faculty members will add to exist- “Foodways and Southern Culture,” in mediately expand the number and ing strengths of Southern Studies while the fall. With a recently completed dis- kinds of courses Southern Studies of- adding courses and approaches. Skipper sertation on race and Southern restau- fers. According to Center Director Ted and Combs will contribute particularly rants in the late 19th century through Ownby, “Teaching a foodways course to the Center’s emphasis on documen- the civil rights movement, Cooley will has been a Center goal for years, and the tary studies. Ownby said, “As an old- collaborate with SFA staff members number of students signing up for Jill timer here, I can remember when we and will also teach a history class relat- Cooley’s class shows how important it is had four faculty members for the en- ed to foodways in the spring. that we can offer such a class.” Skipper tire program. Adding four really accom- “Providing for Our Communities, will teach a special-topics course in the plished scholars will be an extraordi- Protecting Our Race, Proving Ourselves: fall on the politics of cultural preserva- nary addition to the faculty.”

The Southern Register Summer 2011 Page 3 Center for the Study of Southern Culture

SEPTEMBER The University of Mississippi 7 “The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ’n’ Roll” Preston Lauterbach, Music Brown Bag Lunch and Lecture Series Journalist, Memphis, Tennessee FALL Semester 2011 14 “Higher Learning and The Brown Bag Luncheon Series takes place each Wednesday Regional Identity: From at noon in the Barnard Observatory Lecture Hall during the Sectionalism and Segregation to regular academic year. Southern Studies” Clarence Mohr, Professor of The Center for American Places 26 “‘The Customer Is Always History and Chair of History at Columbia College, Chicago, ‘White’: Food, Consumer Culture, Department, University of South Illinois and the Civil Rights Movement” Alabama, Mobile, Alabama Jill Cooley, Postdoctoral Fellow 12 “Historians Look at Slavery: A and Visiting Assistant Professor of 21 “Bagels and Grits: How Jews Panel Discussion” Southern Studies Found a Home in the South” Deidre Cooper-Owens, Assistant Stuart Rockoff, Director, Professor of History, University of NOVEMBER History Department, Goldring/ Mississippi 2 “‘I Asked for Water, and She Woldenberg Institute of Southern Anne Twitty, Assistant Professor Gave Me Gasoline’: Tommy Jewish Life, Jackson, Mississippi of History, University of Johnson and Blues Tourism in Mississippi Copiah County, Mississippi” 28 “In the Pines: A Portrait of Susan O’Donovan, Professor and T. Dwayne Moore, History Holmes County, Florida” Chair of History, University of Graduate Student, University of Tyler Keith, MA in Southern Memphis Mississippi Studies, Oxford, Mississippi 19 “Images of Mississippi: 16 “Images of Southern Women OCTOBER The Politics of Cultural in Response to Feminism, 5 “Southern Crossings: Where Representation” 1980–2000” Geography and Photography Meet: Ted Atkinson, Assistant Professor Jennifer “Bingo” Gunter, MA, A Gammill Gallery Talk on the of English, Mississippi State Southern Studies, Oxford, Photographs of David Zurick” University Mississippi George Thompson, Director,

Exhibition Schedule August 23–October 14, 2011 October 15–December 16, 2011 Southern Crossings: Where Geography Roadside Fare: Southern Foodways Photographs and Photography Meet Kate Medley David Zurick

The Gammill Gallery, located in Barnard Observatory, is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., except for University holidays. Telephone: 662-915-5993.

Page 4 Summer 2011 The Southern Register Ann Abadie, Longtime Center Associate Director, Retires from Post

Ann Abadie, associate director of the Center since it began in 1977, has moved to a new position. On July 1 Ann officially retired as associate director, and beginning in the fall she will continue to work for the Center as a consultant, helping to complete The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and the Mississippi Encyclopedia. Ann Abadie has for years been the editor of the Southern Register, the organizer of the Oxford Conference for the Book, the coeditor of Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference volumes, associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture series, a leading figure in the success of the conferences on civil rights and the “Media and Civil Rights in the Law” conference in the 1980s, the co-orga- Center faculty, staff, students, and friends gather around a quilt made from past Oxford nizer of the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference for the Book and Faulkner Conference T-shirts during Ann Abadie’s retire- Conference, and a key figure in too many ment celebration. other large and small programs, events, grants, and initiatives to list. She worked Leyla Modirzadeh made from old Book that will support the Oxford Conference with university figures and consultants Conference and Faulkner Conference for the Book. Over its 18 years, accord- from off campus in the 1970s to design T-shirts. We also gave Ann a purse ing to Ownby, the conference has sur- the basic organization of the Center for made from the jacket of an Encyclopedia vived on grants and substantial gifts of the Study of Southern Culture and has of Southern Culture, so she can take the both funds and labor. “An endowment worked, primarily behind the scenes, on Encyclopedia wherever she goes.” will ensure the continuing success of the Center initiatives since then. Abadie, Supporters have made some substan- Conference for the Book as an impor- whose PhD is in English, has been a men- tial financial gifts to show appreciation tant part of campus and Oxford life.” tor to hundreds of faculty, staff, students, for Abadie’s work. One, from an anony- Replacing Ann Abadie, according to and friends of the Center. mous donor, will set up the Ann Abadie many friends of the Center, would be “We have honored Ann’s wish not to Prize to a student in Southern Studies impossible. To deal with the change, be feted with testimonials and toasts,” every year. the Center will have a new administra- said Center Director Ted Ownby. “She To show appreciation for Ann tive structure. Jimmy Thomas, who for says she doesn’t want to be the center of Abadie’s work, and to support one of the eight years has been the managing edi- attention, and, besides, there’s work to projects she helped to initiate and sus- tor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern do. But Ann has meant so much to the tain, the present and past members of the Culture, will take on the new position history of the Center that we offered Center Advisory Committee have made of Associate Director, Publications. her a few gifts, like the quilt that artist an impressive start on a new endowment Thomas’s job will include completing his work on the New Encyclopedia series — which is set to end with the publication HOT OFF THE PRESS! of 24 volumes by the end of 2012—editing the Southern Register, and working The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture on current and new publishing and edit- Volume 17: Education Volume 18: Media ing jobs at the Center. A current search HB117….$45.00 Friends….$41.00 Allison Graham and Sharon will fill a second new position, entitled PG117….$24.95 Friends….$22.96 Monteith, editors. Associate Director, Projects. The person HB118….$47.50 Friends….$43.50 in that position will deal with outreach, PG118….$26.95 Friends….$24.96 conferences, grants, and the Center’s website and other new media. For project details and ordering information, see pages 10 and 11.

The Southern Register Summer 2011 Page 5 CALL FOR PAPERS Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha “50 Years after Faulkner,” July 7–11, 2012

July 6, 2012, will mark the 50th an- Watson, Department of English, The niversary of the death of William University of Mississippi, University, Faulkner. This milestone presents an MS 38677-1848. E-mail: jwatson@ opportunity to reexamine and perhaps olemiss.edu. Decisions for all submis- reappraise Faulkner’s life, his work, sions will be made by March 15, 2012. and his place in U.S., Southern, and All conference attendees are en- 20th-century literary studies. The 39th couraged to come to Oxford a day ear- annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha ly and join us for a day of free program- Conference welcomes submissions ming on Friday, July 6, 2012, observ- that pursue such reflections “50 Years ing the 50th anniversary of Faulkner’s after Faulkner.” death. Events, all open to the public, Topics could include, but are by will include keynote addresses by a no means limited to, reassessments of major writer and a Faulkner scholar Faulkner’s later writings; new apprais- and biographer, a marathon reading als of Faulkner’s relationship to the of a Faulkner novel at Rowan Oak, Cold War, the civil rights movement, a reception and cocktail party on the and other midcentury historical, polit- Oxford Square, and a twilight cere- ical, and social contexts; examinations mony at the Faulkner gravesite featur- of Faulkner’s many “afterlives” in pop- ing brief readings and remarks. Make ular, print, and academic cultures be- your conference travel and lodging

tween 1962 and 2012; critical reflec- Martin Dain plans accordingly. tions on Faulkner’s canonical status in Finally, conference attendees may various literatures, or on issues of can- pers consist of approximately 2,500 also be interested to know that the onicity within his own oeuvre; exca- words and will be considered by the University of Mississippi will offer a vations or explorations of unsuspected conference program committee for graduate-level course, ENGL 566, or “other” Faulkners; new approach- possible inclusion in the conference in conjunction with next summer’s es to questions of aging and death in volume published by the University conference. The class, which carries Faulkner’s life and works; critical anal- Press of Mississippi. Plenary papers, three hours of credit, will meet from ysis of the scholarly repositionings and which should be prepared using the Monday, July 2, through Friday, July reinflections of author, career, and work 16th edition of The Chicago Manual 13, and will incorporate all conference that have informed Faulkner Studies of Style as a guide, consist of approxi- sessions and related events in its sched- since his death; and reflections on oth- mately 5,000 words and will appear in ule of contact hours. Conference regis- er developments (in the humanities, the published volume. tration will be included in the course publishing, education, the archive, or Session proposals and panel pa- tuition. Affordable dormitory lodging broader social currents) that are shap- per abstracts must be submitted by will be available on the University of ing the reading, teaching, and scholarly January 31, 2012, preferably through Mississippi campus. ENGL 566 is in- study of Faulkner, 50 years on. e-mail attachment. Panelists select- tended for teachers and graduate stu- This year, we especially want to ed for the conference program will dents seeking to enhance the confer- encourage full panel proposals for receive a reduction of the registra- ence experience by deepening their 75-minute conference sessions. Such tion fee to $100. For plenary papers, critical, pedagogical, and personal en- proposals should include a one- three print copies of the manuscript gagement with Faulkner’s writings page overview of the session topic must be submitted by January 31, while also obtaining transferable credit or theme, followed by two-page ab- 2012. Authors whose plenary papers hours for certification or advanced-de- stracts for each of the panel papers to are selected will receive a conference gree programs. Inquiries about ENGL be included. We also welcome indi- registration waiver and lodging at 566 should be directed to the instructor, vidually submitted two-page abstracts the Inn at Ole Miss from Friday, July Professor Jaime Harker, Department of for 20-minute panel papers and indi- 6, through Wednesday, July 11. All English, The University of Mississippi, vidually submitted manuscripts for manuscripts, proposals, abstracts, and University, MS 38677-1848. E-mail: jl- 40-minute plenary papers. Panel pa- inquiries should be addressed to Jay [email protected].

Page 6 Summer 2011 The Southern Register Charles Reagan Wilson Explores Southern Spirit in New Book

Charles Reagan Wilson, the Kelly Gene I want to bring music and art into the Cook Chair in History, professor of mix. I look at what was happening at Southern Studies and past Center di- the same time that our great writers were rector, has written Flashes of a Southern writing. And we also had our great musi- Spirit: Meaning of the Spirit in the U.S. cians, so we had Faulkner in Mississippi, South, published by the University of but also Robert Johnson and Muddy Georgia Press. The book is compiled Waters. What happens when you look from articles with common issues and at them together, what kind of common themes that were written over a 10-year themes do they have, and how are they period and first appeared in other places, different? What does this say about cre- such as European publications and hard- ativity in a state or in a region that had to-find journals. “I decided to bring them tremendous social problems?” together and revise what I had already Center Director Ted Ownby said written in terms of this theme of the im- Wilson’s essays draw material from a portance of the spirit in the South to the wide variety of sources, which is no sur- Southern identity,” he said. prise for someone who is also an edi- In his introduction, Wilson takes tor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern his inspiration from W. E. B. Du Bois’s Culture. “Studying ‘the spirit’ can be book The Souls of Black Folk, in which difficult,” Ownby said, “in part because Du Bois identifies the black spirit on the concept means different things to the Southern landscape. “Du Bois was scholars and historians, as well as peo- different people, and in part because talking about the South being a kind of ple who are interested in religion in it sometimes connotes things that are grounding for spiritual life above and the South. One of the most important hard to put into words. Wilson’s ap- beyond the materialism that was part of contributions is the focus on Southern proach of using essays on diverse top- the new South philosophy, which was creativity. “I argue that there was a ics is a terrific way to get inside how about the need for the South to make Southern cultural renaissance in the different Southerners experience and more money and become economically 20th century,” Wilson said. “We know express spirituality. The essays show diversified,” Wilson said. our writers and literary critics talk about how religion appears not just in topics The main audience for the book is a Southern literary renaissance, but we might conventionally define as religious history, but in fiction, music, art, beauty pageants, and more.” Charles A. Israel, associate profes- Mark Your Calendars! sor of history and chair of the Auburn September 20, 2011 University Department of History, Viking Range Lecture with James McWilliams wrote this review: “Collected here un- www.southernfoodways.org der the umbrella of what he terms ‘Southern’ spirit are some of his best October 28–30, 2011 essays, with discussions of Southerners The Cultivated South: 14th Southern Foodways Symposium both famous and forgotten, gospel mu- www.southernfoodways.org sic, high literature and self-taught art, November 16, 2011 all connected through Wilson’s deft un- Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern History with David Blight derstanding of the complicated role of religious experience in shaping and be- February 17–18, 2012 March 22–24, 2012 ing shaped by Southern culture.” Blues Today Symposium 19th Oxford Conference for the Book Wilson is also the author of Judgment www.livingblues.com www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis and Baptized in March 18–21, 2012 July 7–11 2012 Blood: The Religion of Lost Cause, 1865– Mississippi Delta Literary Tour Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha 1920, both published by University of www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com Conference Georgia Press. www.outreach.olemiss.edu/ events/faulkner Rebecca Lauck Cleary

The Southern Register Summer 2011 Page 7 Education Volume Latest Release in New Encyclopedia Series, with Special Lecture Planned

This past May the Education volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture appeared in the UNC Press Spring/ Summer 2011 catalog. It is the 17th volume in the series to be published, and thus far it has received high praise. Library Journal, for example, gave it a starred review, and in closing the review read, “This excellent (and singular) source of scholarship on education from a unique cultural perspective will be a welcome addition to academic libraries, especially in those institutions with strong education programs.” Thomas G. Dyer, na- tionally recognized scholar of history and higher education who taught for more Clarence Mohr than three decades at the University of Georgia, claims, “This extremely valuable volume is by far the most comprehensive overview of southern education In support of the volume, volume ed- the University of Georgia by Governor that we have. It provides a rich treatment itor Clarence Mohr, professor of histo- Eugene Talmadge, and the unqualified of educational topics and themes that will ry and chair of the History Department debacle of massive resistance at Ole define the field for further study.” at the University of South Alabama in Miss in 1962. These and many similar The Education volume of the New Mobile, Alabama, will give a special episodes marked the steady erosion of Encyclopedia series offers a broad, up-to- Brown Bag lecture at noon in Barnard a type of regional consciousness root- date reference to the long history and cul- Observatory on September 14; the title ed in the militant defense of tradition tural legacy of education in the American of his lecture is “Higher Learning and against outside threats. Over time, as South, surveying educational develop- Regional Identity: From Sectionalism college degrees became more the rule ments, practices, institutions, and politics and Segregation to Southern Studies.” than the exception in the upper eche- from the colonial era to the present. With “The talk will focus on the topic of lons of business and politics, the only over 130 articles, the book covers key my next book, Learning to Be Southern: version of Southern identity that could topics in education, including academic Higher Education and Regional Identity, sustain itself was the one that emerged freedom; the effects of urbanization on 1880–1980,” says Mohr. “In the book during the New Deal—‘regional plan- segregation, desegregation, and resegre- I will argue that, from the Gilded Age ning’ (or special pleading) within a na- gation; African American and women’s onward, higher education has repre- tional framework. This remains the case education; and illiteracy. These entries, sented the single most powerful, if least today when the identifiably ‘Southern’ as well as articles on prominent educa- acknowledged, force working to reori- university, like the Neo–Confederate tors, such as Booker T. Washington and ent Southern identity in the direc- Southerner, represents either a fading C. Vann Woodward, and major southern tion of national norms, a process that cultural artifact or a hothouse cultiva- universities, colleges, and trade schools, has required the tacit abandonment, or tion sustained by federal grants, tour- provide an essential context for under- more recently the public repudiation, ist dollars, and dry academic treatises standing the debates and battles that re- of regional particularism. When writing on ‘historical memory.’ By embracing main deeply imbedded in Southern edu- about struggles over segregation or aca- a mission of public service and region- cation. Framed by Clarence Mohr’s his- demic freedom historians and journal- al uplift Southern universities achieved torically rich introductory overview, the ists have usually emphasized the South’s the ironic result of placing regional essays in this volume comprise a greatly resistance to change. What seems most identity on the road to extinction.” expanded and thoroughly updated survey striking, however, is the unbroken series Please join us on September 14 in of the shifting Southern education land- of defeats sustained by the old order in Barnard Observatory for a special re- scape and its development over the span clashes such as the 1903 ‘Bassett affair’ ception for Professor Mohr immediate- of four centuries. at Trinity College, the 1941 assault on ly preceding the noon lecture.

Page 8 Summer 2011 The Southern Register Sally Lyon Leaves Southern Center Staff Literary Trail In August the Center will lose longtime staff member Sally Lyon, senior secretary to the director. Sally joined the Center staff in 2004 after graduating with a BA from the University TrailFest 2011 of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1999 and then lat- After a whirlwind journey across the South, Trailfest 2011 er working at the Oxford American magazine in Oxford, wrapped up another successful literary touring season this Mississippi, and for publisher Algonquin Books in Chapel past May. Sponsored by the Southern Literary Trail, a tri-state Hill, North Carolina. With some editorial experience un- collaboration of 18 Southern towns that celebrates 20th-cen- der her belt, Sally quick- tury Southern writers and playwrights through a variety of ly took to assisting Ann events in their home communities, Trailfest 2011 events Abadie with editing the consisted of a conference on Carson McCullers in Columbus, Southern Register, as well Georgia; the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration in as contributing to its Natchez, Mississippi; a lecture on Ralph Ellison at Tuskegee content. University; the Mississippi Delta Literary Tour; the Oxford “I feel quite fortunate Conference for the Book in Oxford, Mississippi; a 100th- to have been able to birthday celebration for Tennessee Williams in Columbus, work here at the Center Mississippi; a spring pilgrimage of homes in Columbus, with two fantastic direc- Mississippi; the Flannery O’Connor Conference at Georgia tors, Charles Wilson and College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia; and Ted Ownby, as well with a book festival in Montgomery, Alabama. the rest of the staff, faculty, and grad students. We really are like a little Kathryn Lyon family here in the Barn Yard. I’ll miss Oxford a bunch, of course, but I’m looking forward to Memphis and all the city has to offer.” Since joining the Center staff, Sally and her husband, Dalton, increased their family by one with the addition of their daughter, Lucy Rose, in 2008. The Lyons will all be missed at the Center, but they will not be far from Oxford. Dalton will be teaching and chairing the history department at St. Mary’s School in Memphis, so frequent excursions back “The thousands of participants in our Trailfest 2011 pro- to Oxford are expected and anxiously anticipated. grams, performances, and exhibits,” says Trail Director William Gantt, “proved again the endurance of classic Southern literature and the value of collaboration. In 2009, when organizers in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi com- bined efforts to coordinate our literary heritage celebrations through the Trail project, we could have never foreseen the Modern Political Archives level of success we achieved over just a few years. It has The Modern Political Archives at the University of been a gratifying experience and one we hope to continue Mississippi is pleased to announce the creation of a new for a very long time.” database entitled “Mississippi Members of Congress.” It A traveling exhibition, Eudora Welty: Exposures and provides basic information on all 159 Mississippians who Reflections, was also part of Trailfest 2011 and essentially have represented the state in the U.S. Congress since continues the momentum of this year’s success. The exhi- 1801: years in office, congressional districts, committee bition is a collection of Depression-era photographs taken memberships, and leadership positions. If the papers of a by the writer and compiled into her book One Time, One member are preserved in an archival repository, the data- Place. The exhibition opened at the Museum of Mobile in base will inform users of location, size, whether the col- September 2010 and is on exhibit at the Carnegie Visual lection is open or closed, and provide a link to any avail- Arts Center in Decatur, Alabama, until September 2, 2011. able online finding aid. The website also contains a his- It will then tour to the Mississippi University for Women torical map set showing changes in congressional districts Gallery in Columbus for the Welty Symposium in October. across time. Mississippi Members of Congress is available More information on the Southern Literary Trail and online at www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/files/ Trailfest 2011 can be found online at www.southernliter- exhibit/ms-members-congress/. arytrail.org.

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An informal partnership that has Southern Food: The Movie. Southern been productive for years becomes Food: The Movie will join two other fea- more formal this year, as Media and ture-length films made by York and his Documentary Projects (MDP) official- colleagues: Mississippi Innocence, a 2011 ly becomes a partner with the Center film about two men on Mississippi’s for the Study of Southern Culture. death row who gained their freedom Joining the College of Liberal Arts and through DNA testing, and Above the the Meek School of Journalism this Line: Saving Willie Mae’s Scotch House, a fall, Media and Documentary Projects documentary that chronicles the SFA’s will emphasize teaching and documen- post-Katrina rebuilding of the Scotch tary filmmaking while continuing to House, a New Orleans restaurant oper- produce promotional material for the ated by 92-year-old fried chicken ma- University. A quick and impressive way ven Willie Mae Seaton. To Live and to see the range and quality of MDP Die in Avoyelles Parish, a documenta- work is to sample its website at www. ry about a Louisiana cochon de lait, is olemissmedia.com and its video page at York’s latest film. www.vimeo.com/olemissmedia. MDP also works with the Center For Southern Studies, the formal to produce the Sounds of the South partnership seems a natural. According radio spots for Mississippi Public to Ted Ownby, “This is great news for Broadcasting. That series pairs York our program. It makes it easier to do with Charles Reagan Wilson, Jimmy what we’ve been doing and raises all Thomas, and a number of graduate stu- sorts of possibilities for new projects.” dent assistants in a project that prepares Many students come to college want- scripts taken from The New Encyclopedia From left: Andy Harper, Joe York, and ing to make films, Ownby said, and he of Southern Culture, intersperses music Matthew Graves in New Orleans at work is excited by the potential for this part- on the film Above the Line: Saving Willie and sometimes interview clips, and has nership to serve those students, wheth- Mae’s Scotch House Wilson read the finished product. The er they are in Southern Studies, jour- spots play Monday and Friday after- nalism, or another program. noons and Saturday nights. MDP also A particularly appealing and impor- produces the popular Highway 61 radio tant feature of the partnership between show, produced and edited by Southern the Center and MDP involves teaching, first they have ever made, and for the Studies alum Eric Feldman and hosted and the alliance helps to make those past two years some of the films were by Scott Barretta. teaching relationships permanent and screened at the Oxford Film Festival. In Beyond the classroom, numerous secure. MDP director Andy Harper is addition to classwork, MDP has helped Southern Studies graduate students thrilled with the new partnership, say- students make documentary films as have learned the technical aspects of ing, “When I took over Media and part of their master’s theses. The for- filmmaking while working as MDP stu- Documentary Projects eight years ago mal partnership will result in additional dent assistants. One sees MDP staff my goal was to find an academic home classes and internships in documentary and students everywhere—here film- from which to tell stories of the people film, and it will also benefit the new mi- ing a lecture, there teaching and learn- and traditions around us. The Center for nor in cinema studies. ing documentary techniques, and some- the Study of Southern Culture has been The partnership between the Center where else filming athletes or promo- doing that for over 30 years, and I can’t and MDP actually began several years tional material for the University. think of a better place for us to be.” ago when the Southern Foodways Media and Documentary Projects di- For the last four years David Wharton Alliance partnered with MDP filmmak- rector Andy Harper, a PhD in history, has team-taught a course in documenta- er and Southern Studies alum Joe York teaches courses on the Southern envi- ry fieldwork with Harper, and the class to make its first foodways film. That ef- ronment as well as documentary courses has become an important part of the fort has led to over 30 films by York, in both Southern Studies and journal- Southern Studies program. Each year a trail of festival appearances, a grow- ism. He is joined by MDP staffers Joe class members work in teams to pro- ing number of awards, and consider- York, Matthew Graves, Rex Jones, and duce 10- to 15-minute films, often the able work on a coming project called Karen Tuttle.

Page 12 Summer 2011 The Southern Register Southern Studies Academic Alums Teaching is one of the main ways Southern Studies alumni use their degrees. Perhaps a quarter—perhaps even a third— Sarah Alford Ballard of all Southern Studies alumni have gone into education, some in teaching, some in administration. Growing num- bers have college and university teaching positions, and four Southern Studies MA students in the past two years took classes taught by SST alumni. Many teach in high schools and middle schools. Some just teach occasionally. For example, this summer Amy Evans Streeter (MA 2003) taught a workshop for graduate students interested in foodways oral history techniques, Cathryn Stout (MA 2011) taught writing to middle school students in a summer program in Connecticut, and Sudye Cauthen (MA 1993) teaches workshops on oral history and memoir. Bert Way (MA 1999) has a new job teaching

Chuck Yarbrough

teaching typically has this sort of transnational reach, but remains firmly anchored in the regional. In other words, my courses ask global questions but examine these questions through the lens of the local—an approach that I first learned as a Southern Studies major.” Scott Small (MA 1999) has taught several classes that involve Southern Studies themes at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School. He mentions a class on Race and Sports in Modern American History as showing the influence of his classes in Southern Studies and particularly his work Velsie Pate with Chuck Ross in history and African American Studies. Of the classes he has taught at the University of Florida, Virginia Wesleyan, and Andrew College, Jay Langdale (MA 1996) history at Kennesaw State University and a new University writes, “I taught a history practicum based on Southern his- of Georgia Press book, Conserving Southern Longleaf, and tory that uses, among other things, Faulkner’s The Sound and Nattoria Kennell Foster (MA 2011) will be teaching high the Fury as a means to better understand how we think histor- school English in Marks, Mississippi. For this article, I asked ically. This idea first occurred to me in a seminar with Susan three questions of a few of our teaching alumni: what subjects Donaldson while she was visiting at Ole Miss.” and at what level do they teach, and how—if at all—does Other alums mentioned specific books that either influence their Southern Studies degree affect their teaching? their teaching or that work well in their classes. Teaching at Many teach classes in Southern Studies or in closely related the Episcopal School in Knoxville, Chris Renberg (MA 1994) fields. Sarah Alford Ballard (MA 2003), who after starting her writes that the clearest example of Southern Studies in his career in the Mississippi Teachers Corp now teaches English at classes is that he teaches To Kill a Mockingbird to eighth grad- Murrah High School in Jackson, incorporates Southern litera- ers. While teaching composition courses as she works on her ture into her world literature and American literature classes. PhD at the University of Pittsburg, Elizabeth Oliphant (BA Molly McGehee (MA 2000) teaches Southern Studies cours- 2006) “assigned a long portion of Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond es in her position in the English Department at Presbyterian Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which my College in Clinton, South Carolina. Along with courses in students received with enthusiasm and curiosity; hurricanes U.S. history and government, Chuck Yarbrough (MA 1995) are considered pretty exotic here in western Pennsylvania, teaches an interdisciplinary Mississippi Crossroads course at where most of my students grew up. They seemed to respond the Mississippi School of Math and Science in Columbus. to Trethewey’s book both as a record of an unfamiliar place Amy Clukey (BA 2003) has a new assistant professor posi- and as a homecoming story to which they could relate—and as tion in English at the University of Louisville. Influenced es- such it was a pleasure to teach.” Chuck Yarbrough writes, “In pecially by the New Southern Studies, she writes, “This fall each of my classes I encourage students to explore local and I’ll be teaching a graduate course called ‘The Transatlantic regional cultural/historic details in keeping with Ed Ayers’s Literature of Slavery.’ We’ll be discussing antebellum pro- ‘World History is simply local history writ large.’ (Thanks, slavery tracts and postbellum fiction by Thomas Nelson Page, Charles Wilson, for assigning Promise of the New South!)” Thomas Dixon, and William Faulkner alongside 19th- and Many alumni mentioned that interdisciplinary approaches 20th-century Caribbean, British, and French literature. My help their students start to interpret the world and their place

The Southern Register Summer 2011 Page 13 in it. Ron Nurnberg (MA 1995) serves as executive director University Press of MississiPPi of Teach for America in the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta. He summarizes that over the past 15 years “I have helped re- Larry Brown cruit, select, train, and provide ongoing professional develop- A Writer’s Life ment for over 1,000 new teachers in the greater Delta. From By Jean W. Cash our national recruitment materials to our Delta context ses- Foreword by Shannon Ravenel sions at induction to the courses and ongoing support that we The first biography of offer and provide our teachers throughout their commitment Mississippi’s beloved blue- in the classroom so that they better understand themselves collar writer who redefined and their Delta students and communities, Southern Studies southern fiction $35 hardback; $35 Ebook is fully embedded and intertwined.” Molly McGehee writes that as “in the Southern Studies MA program, my courses at Presbyterian College challenge students to think critical- ly about the places and areas they call home and the identi- The Other World of ties they claim for themselves while also allowing them the Richard Wright opportunity to celebrate the cultural connections between Perspectives on His Haiku the South, the nation, and the world.” Velsie Pate (MA Edited by Jianqing Zheng 2009) teaches classes on American Culture and Speaking The first scholarly consideration and Listening to international students in the University of of the over eight hundred haiku written late in Wright’s life Mississippi’s Intensive English Program. She writes, “One of $55 hardback the greatest things about teaching students from other countries is being able to see one’s own culture through their eyes. It allows one to see one’s own surroundings from a fresh per- The Last Resort spective. The instructor or staff member is the ambassador to the students. We have a responsibility to connect the students Taking the Mississippi Cure to the environment that they are immersed in while acknowl- By Norma Watkins The story of a childhood at edging and respecting the culture that each student brings to Allison’s Wells and one woman’s the program.” combat with the hypocrisies of Some stressed that their teaching methods continue things segregated society they found especially appealing in Southern Studies. Buddy $28 hardback; $28 Ebook Harris (MA 2001) practices what he calls “applied Southern Studies” in his work at North Carolina Central University, where he does research in “things like mobilizing rural church- es to prepare for natural disasters” and teaches Introduction to Mississippi John Hurt Composition classes. Sally Monroe Busby (MA 2002), who His Life, His Times, His Blues teaches seventh-grade English classes in Memphis, mentioned By Philip R. Ratcliffe the importance of listening, a skill she says she developed in Foreword by part in David Wharton’s classes. “One salient quality I have as Mary Frances Hurt Wright The first biography of the a teacher is the ability to listen. I believe this comes in handy blues revival’s most influential when teaching (and learning from) middle schoolers. They musician are learning to apply their experiences to the analysis of lit- $35 hardback; $35 Ebook erature and it helps to listen. I learned how to listen to lives in my Southern Studies classes—especially my documentary classes. In fact, I painted ‘When an old man dies, a library One World, Two Artists burns to the ground’ on one wall of my old classroom. My stu- John Alexander dents do a documentary project each year where they inter- and Walter Anderson view someone in the community and write vignettes of his/ Edited by Sue Strachan her life.” Sarah Alford Ballard wrote, “Pulling heavily from Essays by Annlyn Swan, Mark Stevens, the pedagogy of the Southern Studies program, I use music, Jimmy Buffett, and Bill Dunlap art, photography, history, and even food to help students bet- A revealing pairing of two great ter understand and ultimately connect to the text.” Using a southern creators; distributed for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art phrase the faculty would appreciate, Elizabeth Oliphant re- $55 hardback called her favorite classes as having “a certain beyond-the- canon funkiness that I really loved and hope I can recreate in the classes I teach.” www.upress.state.ms.us 800-737-7788 Ted Ownby

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Still in Print: The Southern Gretlund believes that Charles Novel Today. Frazier’s Cold Mountain, Josephine Edited by Jan Nordby Humphreys’s Nowhere Else on Earth, Kaye Gibbons’s On the Occasion of Gretlund. My Last Afternoon, and Pam Durban’s Columbia: University of South So Far Back “through their excur- Carolina Press, 2010. 285 pag- sions into history say something sig- es. $59.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. nificant about race and gender that is relevant for our present lives.” Thus, Fans of contemporary Southern fiction M. Thomas Inge proposes that “a part will find a wealth of reading recom- of Frazier’s project” in his best-selling mendations in this series of essays on novel “seems to be an eradication of 18 notable books published between common stereotypes, black and white 1997 and 2009. Contributors to Still alike.” Essayist Clara Juncker sees in Print focus on single novels, each by Humphreys’s narrator Rhoda Lowrie as a different author, but the scholars in- a heroic embodiment of female pow- troduce their essays with a two-page er; Rhoda’s “feminized, erotic space” “biographical sketch” that efficient- in the Lumbee Indian community of ly surveys the novelist’s whole corpus. Scuffletown, North Carolina, is a terri- Editor Jan Nordby Gretlund organiz- tory “between Union and Confederate es the studies into four sections. The ashy, sunless Appalachians and hor- spaces.” Kaye Gibbons’s protagonist, first three division headings reflect tra- ribly cold Gulf Coast make his posta- Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, is an up- ditional concerns of Southern litera- pocalyptic South almost as foreign as per-class white woman reviewing her ture: “A Sense of History,” “A Sense Ford’s suburban New Jersey. The 1950s long life in the year 1900, but schol- of Place,” and “A Sense of Humor” in- town of Seneca, South Carolina, in ar Kathryn McKee argues that Emma’s clude five essays apiece. The fourth sec- Rash’s book is a “uniquely Southern mysterious African American servant, tion, “A Sense of Malaise,” is shorter, landscape,” says essayist Bjerre, but Clarice, is the “most compelling char- with essays by Thomas Bjerre on Ron “state-controlled flooding” in the acter” in the novel. McKee wonders if Rash’s One Foot in Eden; by Robert 1970s destroys that Appalachian vis- Gibbons, “perhaps unconsciously, re- Brinkmeyer on Richard Ford’s The Lay ta. The malaise in all three works is cycles white America’s lingering fond- of the Land; and by Richard Gray on related to the bleakness of the natu- ness for uncomplicated black/white re- Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. ral world—a bleakness seldom associ- lations within the domestic sphere.” Despite a degree of “postmodern- ated with Southern literature. In fact, Historical parallels are explicit in istic alienation” in these last three Gretlund suggests that the main fea- Durban’s So Far Back, which shifts be- novels, says Gretlund, their authors ture of recent Southern fiction is not tween Charleston’s racial and econom- (like most novelists featured in Still in “a modern feeling of homelessness and ic unrest in 1837 and 1989; editor-es- Print) “are engaged in asking questions alienation” but, instead, “the reclaim- sayist Gretlund places this work in the of how we can invest our world with ing of forgotten, or hidden, historical tradition of Faulkner. Percival Everett’s comprehensible life and avoid living ‘a events, the claiming of ignored events satiric Erasure, the fifth “Sense of sickness unto death.’” Malaise is cer- in the present, and the acceptance and History” novel, is even more experimen- tainly a threat in all three, although ready use of the ethnic reality of the tal, with its fragmented narration by the Ford’s Northern setting marks his nov- South, or of the whole country, which sarcastic Thelonious “Monk” Ellison—a el—third in the Frank Bascombe tril- is a reality of obvious, and sometimes middle-class African American “raised ogy—as an unusual selection for this less obvious, prejudice.” on a border.” As Tara Powell deftly volume. (Born in Mississippi, Ford is While the Civil War is central in sums up, Everett “is writing a novel senior fiction writer at the University the “Sense of History” essays, all five about a novelist who is writing a jour- of Mississippi, so his Southern creden- novels in this first division do empha- nal, and that journal is the novel in tials are not in doubt.) McCarthy’s size neglected histories. Moreover, front of the reader.”

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Four of the five novelists highlight- the godmother for Edgerton’s tale of a of Southern writing and criticism by ed in “Part II: A Sense of Place” have, hitchhiking Bible seller in rural North women. Fiction of the past 15 years coincidentally, taught creative writing Carolina; essayist John Grammer notes includes well-reviewed novels by courses at the University of Mississippi: that this gullible youth journeys to full- Bobbie Ann Mason, Dorothy Allison, Steve Yarbrough (The Oxygen Man), er understanding in sections point- Ann Patchett, Cynthia Shearer, Ellen the late Larry Brown (Fay), Chris edly titled “Genesis,” “Exodus,” and Gilchrist, Doris Betts, Donna Tartt, Offutt (the newest member of the “Revelation.” Scott Romine cites Jayne Anne Phillips, Lee Smith, Native MFA faculty and author of The Good O’Connor and Faulkner, but also C. S. Americans LeAnne Howe and Barbara Brother), and the late Barry Hannah Lewis, as Wilcox’s forerunners; the Kingsolver, African Americans Tayari (Yonder Stands Your Orphan). Thomas “mushy world” of the fictional Tula Jones and Suzan-Lori Parks, and many Dasher stresses the impact of past ra- Springs, Louisiana, awaits the “retroac- others. Women have also been produc- cial and class violence on present-day tive work of grace” in Heavenly Days. tive scholars, with books by Mary Jean tragedies in the Indianola, Mississippi, Harington’s humor merges “broad hill- DeMarr on Kingsolver, Johanna Price of Oxygen Man. Jean Cash describes billy comedy” and “unabashed eroti- on Mason, and editors Carolyn Perry the “rough South” of Brown’s female cism,” says Edwin Arnold, who refers and Mary Louise Weaks on The History Bildungsroman, an on-the-road sto- to Enduring as “an essential novel” in of Southern Women’s Literature. The ry of the abused young Fay’s “qualified the “epic narrative” of the fictitious large number of contemporary female triumph” in her experience of “violent Stay More, Arkansas. Marcel Arbeit critics is reflected in Works Cited for sexual perversity” and Gulf Coast cor- admires Nordan’s dreamlike blend of Still in Print essays by Clara Juncker and ruption. The westward travels, naïveté, trauma and humor on a red-clay llama Kathryn McKee. This volume offers and moral dilemmas of Offutt’s “back- farm, where “light dawned” on young such a generous sample of contempo- country hero” lead essayist Carl Wieck Leroy, survivor of an almost magical rary Southern literature that it seems to make an extended comparison with lightning strike. selfish to ask for more or different se- Twain’s Huck Finn. Beginning with “A Time of Excellence in Southern lections. My inspiration is the title of Barry Hannah’s title (a Bob Dylan Fiction” is the title of Gretlund’s in- Kingsolver’s 2009 novel: The Lacuna. phrase), his novel is “packed with mu- troduction, and the essayists demon- sic,” says Owen Gilman, but outrageous strate the stylistic prowess, imagina- Joan Wylie Hall enterprises (including a Vicksburg cation, and social awareness of current sino), sleazy promiscuity, “religious writing in the South. As chair of the cant,” and violence make contempo- Center for American Studies at the Becoming Faulkner: The Art rary Mississippi a “postmodern swamp” University of Southern Denmark, and Life of William Faulkner. for Hannah’s mockery. Louisiana is no Gretlund strengthens the collec- better in James Lee Burke’s Crusader’s tion by including six European con- By Philip Weinstein. Cross, the final “Sense of Place” nov- tributors. The volume would be New York: Oxford University el. Essayist Hans Skei contrasts the even stronger with the inclusion of destructive greed of 21st-century kill- more than just three women writers Press, 2010. xiii + 250 pages. ers and capitalists with the evocative (Humphreys, Gibbons, and Durban) $29.95 paperback. memories of Burke’s grieving crusader, and more than a single minority “We go to biography,” writes Philip Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux. writer (Percival Everett, who would Weinstein, “to see a human life . . . Hannah’s rowdy Orphan is kin to probably scorn the phrase). Gretlund made sense of as a completed passage the five comic masterpieces of “Part says that “in the late 1980s and ear- through time, even if (for the sub- III: A Sense of Humor”—George ly 1990s women dominated both as ject of the biography) it didn’t make Singleton’s Work Shirts for Madmen, novelists and excellent critics. Now, much sense while it was happening.” Clyde Edgerton’s The Bible Salesman, at the end of the first decade after Biography, that is, falsifies the human James Wilcox’s Heavenly Days, the 2000, men clearly dominate both as experience of living in what Weinstein late Donald Harington’s Enduring, and novelists and critics.” Gretlund’s re- calls “ongoing time.” This experience Lewis Nordan’s Lightning Song. Charles spect for female authors is obvious is a state of perpetual unpreparedness: Israel views Singleton’s philosophical in his Pam Durban essay and in his shock, trauma, distress, a sense of life satire of neoconservatives and the “re- valuable books on Eudora Welty and bearing down on one relentlessly, in- habilitation industry” as a new twist on Flannery O’Connor; he predicts that tolerably. We negotiate this storm of the Southwest humor tradition, with “the shifting gender distribution in thoughts and feelings by drawing on the customary rural dialect, backwoods literary achievement” will “probably sense-making resources—words, mem- scams, alcohol, and sophisticated nar- change again within a few years.” ories, narratives—to anneal the turbu- rator. Flannery O’Connor could be Still in Print gives a limited notion lence of is into the orderly patterns of

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was, to make life graspable, manage- Faulkner into the raw intensity of the able. Biography does this. So do nov- lived present (and not coincidentally, els—at least most novels. But William into the narrative technique of inte- Faulkner’s project, as Weinstein pres- rior monologue) in The Sound and the ents it, was different, and this is what Fury; prior to that breakthrough work, makes him matter. he had not taken up the subject seri- In an earlier study, Weinstein of- ously in his published writing. The fered the lapidary observation that awful intensities of Sanctuary make Faulkner “was hurt into greatness.” the novel a “narrative experiment in Becoming Faulkner elaborates pow- how much pressure people can bear.” erfully, and often brilliantly, on that The need “to make readers experience claim. Faulkner became a novel- the blindness of the present as blind- ist who matters when, his career al- ness,” to force us into “a state of un- ready under way, he began to honor preparedness for what comes next and the messiness and anguish of the lived why . . . is why Light in August ‘begins’ present in his fiction instead of trying five different times.”Go Down, Moses to tame it into words. To do this he proves unique in the Faulkner oeu- had to deform the genre of the nov- to date, Flags in the Dust, and his long- vre in assigning to African American el—a vehicle for just such tamings— desired yet also dreaded mid-1929 mar- characters like Lucas Beauchamp and as he had inherited it from centuries riage to Estelle Oldham. Chapter 2 Rider the interior distress that signals of predecessors, even such recent and backtracks to 1918, to the failed elope- the author’s deepest investment in innovative precursors as Henry James ment with Estelle that may have been and engagement with his characters. and James Joyce. From The Sound and the most painful moment of Faulkner’s There is also, of course, a price to be the Fury through Go Down, Moses, his entire life. These biographical “stum- paid in eschewing a comprehensive major novels not only thematize the blings” (a favorite term in Becoming linear narrative to build biography drama of living in ongoing time, they Faulkner) proved blessing as well as on the discontinuous rhythms of life’s perform it as well, making the read- curse for the writer, opening out into stumbles. Weinstein is at his most in- ing experience itself an exercise in the the fictions that announced him to candescent as a critic precisely where distress, the discontinuity, and the in- the world as a major artist: The Sound Faulkner is as a writer, where the tensity of is, resisting the assurance of and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary. “troubled life” ignites into the “trou- a reliable narrative vantage point as Chapter 3 traces Faulkner’s anguished bling work.” In between such erup- long as textually—humanly—possi- entanglement in the racial confusions tions Becoming Faulkner treads rela- ble. This is what makes them so dif- of his time and place, a sense of per- tively familiar biographical ground, ficult, and so worth reading: a narra- sonal and cultural distress that erupts leaning heavily on Joseph Blotner— tive experiment that Weinstein finds in Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, little risk of salutary readerly stum- unprecedented, and unparalleled, in and Go Down, Moses, the novels that bling here. But the book’s most valu- Western literary representation. for Weinstein constitute Faulkner’s able contributions take place on the A different kind of novelist, then, “greatest claim on us.” The following unfamiliar, volatile ground where demands a different kind of biographi- chapter details the love affairs—with Faulkner twists words into undo- cal approach. To do justice to a writer young women and with alcohol— ing the work of words, narrative who confronted the fundamental “un- in which Faulkner (unsuccessfully) into undoing narrative. Writing of timeliness” of human existence head- sought “sanctuary” from the stresses the inception of The Sound and the on, the biographer must resist the urge that ruled his life and fueled his fiction. Fury, Faulkner himself described this to frame a narrative “progressing re- The much shorter fifth chapter turns ground as the site where his material sponsibly from 1897 to 1962.” Instead, to the dynamic of repetition and reen- “seemed to explode all about [him].” Weinstein directs his five chapters actment that informed Faulkner’s final Among the legions of scholars who to discrete versions of “trouble en- two decades—when “what had gone have explored the Faulkner oeuvre, countered but not overcome,” trou- wrong earlier” in his life “would inev- Weinstein may be the most attuned ble not so much annealed or tamed itably go wrong again”—and develops to this explosiveness, most adept at into Faulknerian art as igniting into it. the implications of such irresolution in unpacking its significance for the life Chapter 1 examines the period of per- and for the writings of the period. and the work, as Becoming Faulkner petual crisis between late 1927, when Along the way we are treated expertly demonstrates. Faulkner’s publisher rejected the nov- to breathtaking flashes of insight. el Faulkner was certain was his finest Childhood is the catalyst that propels Jay Watson

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“Fresh Catfish Today, the board stated in letters of liquified chalk, and through the screen doors beyond it came a smell of refrigerated food—cheese and pickle and such—with a faint overtone of fried grease.” —William Faulkner, Flags in the Dust

14th Southern Foodways Symposium The Cultivated South October 28–30, Oxford, Mississippi Kate Medley

The 14th Southern Foodways Sympo sium will be held October 28–30, 2011, in and around the town of Oxford and on the campus of the University of Mississippi. The Delta Divertissement, now in its ninth year, will take place October 27–28 in nearby Greenwood and Mound Bayou. Both events will explore the Cultivated South. For much of our region’s history, agriculture has driven the Southern economy. From sugarcane plantations in the Gulf South to bean-and-corn sub- sistence farms in the Mountain South, our lives have long revolved around the cultivation of soils and the propagation of crops. Much good recent work has been done on the documentation and pres- and scholar Elizabeth Engelhardt—to The symposium will continue to ervation of our natural resources. We explore the Cultivated South. showcase artistic expressions of food- now know the names of imperiled Curious eaters will sample Lowcountry ways import. Amos Kennedy, the strains of rice and their histories in the riffs on the prevailing farm-to-table eth- Alabama letterpress maven, will pay Lowcountry. We know the value of sav- ic from Mike Lata of Charleston, South broadside tribute to okra’s import. And ing the seeds of shucky beans to ensure Carolina. And April McGreger, a daugh- on Sunday morning, following hard on the future of Appalachian biodiversity. ter of Mississippi, now pickling and pre- the heels of the ballet we staged a cou- Now it’s time to explore the culture serving in Carrboro, North Carolina. ple of years back, we’ve commissioned of agriculture. To investigate the farm And Billy Allin, the locavore-in-charge an opera, based on Leaves of Greens, a ideal—from both Christian and Muslim at Cakes & Ale in Decatur, Georgia. collection of collard poems from Ayden, perspectives. To comprehend the un- Curious drinkers will taste tipples North Carolina. filled promises of 40 Acres and a Mule. from the late Eugene Walter, the bard Registration will open in early To reclaim the pimiento as a vegetable. of Mobile. And listen to the musings of August at www.southernfoodways.org. To welcome the return of olive trees to drinkways scholar Dave Wondrich and Please join us. Georgia and South Carolina. Now it’s novelist Jack Pendarvis, who know a time—with speakers like USDA crit- thing or three about cultivating a taste John T. Edge ic Shirley Sherrod, poet Kevin Young, for drink. SFA Field Trip Report Cajun Country Ramble: New Orleans to Eunice, Louisiana

This past June during our Field Trip, SFA Amy Evans Streeter Kurt Unkel of Cajun drove the prairies of Cajun country with Grain in Kinder, SFA app-loaded smart phones in hand. Louisiana, talks to Down blacktop back roads. Through SFA members about dog-in-the-road towns. To meat markets rice farming. that sell liver-flecked boudin. And crawfish boiling points where the tables are draped in newspaper. We began on Thursday, June 23, in New Orleans, in Calcasieu, Donald Link’s private dining room above Cochon. That night, Stephen Stryjewski dished catfish court bouillion and rice. And Paul Prudhomme and Donald Link held forth. We ended on Sunday morning, when, bellies full of boudin and crawfish, arteries pumping Tabasco, we drove home, again using smart phones to find breakfast boudin for the ride. Along the way, we heard from experts and raconteurs, including Marcelle Bienvenu, author of the classic Who’s Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can Joe York’s new film, on the cochon du past while mistaking it for a tractor ga- You Make a Roux? and who dished lait tradition; a smothered lunch featur- rage or chicken coop.” “That would be gumbo gossip; Jim Gossen, found- ing cooks from the SFA’s Lunch Houses a shame,” wrote SFA board member er of Louisiana Foods and who shared of Acadiana Oral History Project; the Brett Anderson, “because in actuality how crawfish came to be farmed rather live Rendezvous des Cajuns radio show at it’s among the best boiling pots on the than fished; Pableaux Johnson, a writ- the Liberty Theater in Eunice; a morn- planet.” We ended the weekend with er and photographer who grew up in ing romp through the crawfish fields zydeco at Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki, a dance hall in New Iberia and who is, in the words of with Craig West and Troy West, who business since 1947, famous for staging SFA board vice president Sara Roahen, run one of the oldest commercial craw- some of the best live music in the state. a “master smotherer” of all God’s cre- fish operations in the state; and crawfish The place lived up to its billing. ation; and Gerald Patout, director of the at Hawk’s, which “you could easily drive Arnold LeDoux Library at Louisiana State University, Eunice, who talked of What I Did on My Summer Vacation rice dressings and other delights. With SFA oral historians Amy Evans I had the pleasure of interning for the Southern Foodways Streeter, Sara Roahen, Rien Fertel, and Alliance this summer, and there was no coffee fetch- Mary Beth Lasseter leading, we experi- ing required! For the last year I have been editing Gravy, enced the Mowata Store where Bubba the SFA’s quarterly food letter, from Chapel Hill, North Frey stuffs boudin links and craw- Carolina, where I am a graduate student in folklore. This fish rice-larded chickens; an okra sup- summer in Oxford, I got to continue my work on Gravy and per at Ruby’s Cafe, open since 1959, contribute to many other SFA projects. I was the editorial in Eunice, where Dot Vidrine pre- assistant to Brett Anderson, SFA board member and New sides; Cajun Grain rice farm in Kinder, Orleans Times-Picayune restaurant critic, on the sixth in- where Kurt Unkel, a third-generation stallment of the Cornbread Nation book series. (UGA Press rice farmer, grows specialty varieties Sara Camp Arnold will publish Cornbread Nation 6 in the spring of 2012.) I also like brown jasmine; boudin biscuits, Amy Evans Streeter put together a bibliography for the Cajun Country Field glazed with Steen’s Cane Syrup from Trip in June and accompanied the staff on the trip. That weekend was easily the Justin Girouard of The French Press in highlight of my summer. Throughout my time here, I was so happy to spend more Lafayette; beer, boudin, and fiddles at time in person with the whole SFA staff, in and out of the office. I hope that some the Savoy Music Center in Eunice and of that energy and creativity rubbed off on me. I can’t wait to come back to Oxford Fred’s Lounge in Mamou; the debut of for the SFA symposium in October. the SFA’s Boudin: The Traveling Exhibit; Sara Camp Arnold

Boudin: The Traveling Exhibit Teaching Text by Amy Evans Streeter. Southern Food Boudin exhibit poster Angela “Jill” Cooley is thrilled to be- designed by Devin Cox. gin a postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for the Study of Southern The Southern Foodways Alliance’s Culture in August. Cooley recent- latest documentary project, a trav- ly completed a PhD in history at the eling exhibit, profiles the ubiquitous University of Alabama, where she also and beloved Cajun fast food boudin. worked as an adjunct history profes- The exhibit debuted on June 25 at sor. Cooley’s research field is Southern the Prairie Acadian Cultural Center foodways and culture, and she is par- in Eunice, Louisiana. In addition to being shown at other venues in Angela “Jill” Cooley Louisiana this summer, Boudin: The Traveling Exhibit will premier in New Orleans on November 11 at Boudin & Beer, a one-night event that is part of Emeril Lagasse’s annual char- ity wine auction, Carnivale du Vin. Thanks to funding from McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco® brand products, and Butterfield and Robinson’s Global Heritage Fund, SFA’s work on boudin began in 2006 ticularly interested in the transforma- with oral histories of storied boudin tion of food consumption in the 20th- makers like Robert Cormier of the century South as rural people moved Best Stop in Scott, Louisiana; Bubba into urban and suburban areas. Her Frey of the Mowata Store in Eunice, dissertation is entitled “To Live and Louisiana; and John Saucier of Saucier’s Sausage Kitchen in Mamou, Louisiana. Dine in Dixie: Foodways and Culture Today nearly 50 oral histories are available online as part of the SFA’s Southern in the 20th-Century South.” Cooley Boudin Trail at www.southernboudintrail.com. also has a Juris Doctor from the George Do you know where the boudin exhibit should stop next? E-mail Georgeanna Washington University Law School. Chapman at [email protected]. Favorite hobbies include traveling along small Southern highways, reading historical markers, and finding interesting places to eat.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, VISIT US AT OUR WEB SITE: www.southernfoodways.org or call Julie Pickett at 662.915.5993 or via e-mail at [email protected] New Orleans Sno-balls Sara Roahen First things first: a New Orleans sno-ball is not a snow cone, a pre-frozen, rock- hard concoction like those sold from ice cream trucks and concession stands elsewhere. As all of our New Orleans sno-ball oral history subjects attest, New Orleans sno is a product of locally made, carefully stored, and expertly shaved-to-order ice. The sugary syrups that color and flavor a New Orleans sno-ball are equally important to the final product, and each sno- ball maker protects his own syrup recipes. In fact, a majority of the recipes at Hansen’s Sno-Bliz in Uptown, Williams Plum Street Snowballs near Riverbend, and Sal’s Sno-Balls in Old Metairie have survived several generations of stand ownership. As you might expect to find in a sub- tropical city, New Orleans’ flavored- (above) A customer at Tee Eva’s Pies and ice tradition dates back to a time when Pralines vendors shaved the ice by hand and (left) An employee at Cristina Ice Service carried just a small selection of fla- in Marrero, Louisiana vorings. Then, in the 1930s, two sno- ball pioneers—George Ortolano and Ernest Hansen—independently built the city’s first electric ice-shaving machines. While a version of the Ortolano machine is still produced and sold by Schedule of Events George’s descendents at the compa- September 18–19, 2011 ny SnoWizard, Ernest Hansen built Stir the Pot at Poole’s Diner, his machines primarily for person- featuring John Fleer al use. His legacy is in the family sno- Raleigh, North Carolina ball stand, still run today by his grand- daughter Ashley Hansen. September 20, 2011 In spite of the sno-ball’s nostalgic Viking Range Lecture appeal, flavor innovation is rampant. by James McWilliams In these new oral histories, you’ll hear University of Mississippi Claude and Donna Black talk about in- venting Plum Street’s new king cake Sara Roahen October 28–30, 2011 flavor. Steven Bel’s customers at Sal’s every one, at least where the sno-balls The Cultivated South: are stuffing orange dreamsicle sno-balls themselves were concerned: “fun.” 14th Southern Foodways Symposium (a recent addition) with soft-serve ice Oxford, Mississippi cream. At Southern Snow, a machine- Sara Roahen and flavor-manufacturing plant, Bubby January 29–30, 2012 Wendling sells a novelty buttered-pop- Sara Roahen is an SFA board member and Stir the Pot at Poole’s Diner, corn extract. And Tee Eva, who also oral historian for the Southern Foodways featuring Chris Hastings specializes in fresh pralines, crumbles Alliance. She tasted sno-balls all over New Raleigh, North Carolina her own pecan candies over sno-balls Orleans for this assignment, trying all the for an off-the-menu treat. flavors. Her verdict: root beer sno-balls May 20–21, 2012 These interviews only scratch the are best when it’s blazing hot, and cream Stir the Pot at Poole’s Diner, surface of New Orleans’s sno-ball cul- of nectar is best when it’s cooler. Look for featuring Steven Satterfield ture, which is as varied and deep as these newest SFA histories online at www. Raleigh, North Carolina the city’s neighborhoods. But one sen- southernfoodways.org. timent, one word, arose during nearly Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha 2011 “Faulkner’s Geographies” Courtesy Bruce Newman/ Oxford EAGLE

The major thrust of the 38th annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference, “Faulkner’s Geographies,” was to open what has appeared to be the tight- ly sealed world of Faulkner’s mythic Yoknapatawpha County—a “postage stamp of native soil,” “William Faulkner, sole owner and proprietor.” With 160 Faulkner fans on hand, from 24 states and 4 countries, 19 presenters not only dem- onstrated the great variety of geographical boundaries and crossings that constitute the action of Yoknapatawpha, but traced the lines that link it to places far from Faulkner’s Mississippi, transforming (Left to right) Cynthia Shearer, Howard Bahr, Don Kartiganer (moderating), Keith it from a world unto itself into a fulcrum Fudge, and William Griffith discuss their roles as present and past curators of Rowan of interacting forces. Oak, William Faulkner’s Oxford home, during the Curators of Rowan Oak panel in Nutt Yoknapatawpha extends south- Auditorium on the University of Mississippi campus. westerly into what José Limón called Greater Mexico in Light in August and, Colby Kullman as Jenna Sciuto, Erin Sweeney, Valerie Loichot, and Ryan Heryford described it, Yoknapatawpha extends southeast- (Left to right) Jennie erly into the Caribbean in Absalom, Joiner, Lorie Watkins Absalom! Stefan Solomon expands Fulton, Jay Watson, Yoknapatawpha into the North with and Theresa Towner at African American migration in Intruder the Tuesday afternoon in the Dust, and John Shelton Reed Faulkner Cocktail Party. pushes the boundary into the world of the New Orleans French Quarter, where Faulkner lived during the first half of 1925 and which was subsequent- ly absorbed into his fiction. Even as the imaginary Yoknapatawpha revealed a much wider geographical Media Archive of the University’s Mississippi Department of English, fea- range than hitherto realized, Faulkner’s John Davis Williams Library—princi- tured readings and dramatizations from Oxford roots were solidly confirmed by pally the Cofield and Dain collections Faulkner, poetry, storytelling, and a re- four curators of Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s but also including the Museum’s new- port called “The Secret History of home from 1930 until his death in 1962. ly acquired images of Faulkner by Henri William Faulkner’s Pipe Cleaners” (sor- Howard Bahr, Keith Fudge, William Cartier-Bresson. ry, no details to be divulged: what hap- Griffith, and Cynthia Shearer—cu- Three sessions of Teaching Faulkner pens at The Fringe stays at The Fringe). rators from 1973 to the present—de- by James Carothers, Charles A. Peek, Regular features of the conference scribed the development of Rowan Oak Terrell Tebbetts, and Theresa Towner included Seth Berner’s Collecting to its current designation as a National provided the specificity of particu- Faulkner session, a sampling from his Historical Landmark. lar textual passages and document- Faulkner holdings, a University Press of A further localization was manifest- ed Faulkner’s geographical sensibility Mississippi display of books on Faulkner ed in an exhibition at the University with discussion on his carefully labeled and the South, and tours of Oxford and Museum entitled Faulkner’s Geographies: maps from Absalom, Absalom! and The North Mississippi. The usual round of A Photographic Journey. The exhibi- Portable Faulkner. social events kept the conference, like tion included photographs of Faulkner A freewheeling, open-mike Faulkner Faulkner’s fiction, always in motion. and the surrounding environs from Fringe Festival, ceremonially mastered several collections in the Southern by Colby Kullman of the University of Donald M. Kartiganer

The Southern Register Summer 2011 Page 23 Ripley Main Street 2011 Eudora Association Hosts Welty Awards Faulkner Heritage Festival, Emma Richardson Each year the Center for the November 4–5, 2011 Study of Southern Culture gives the Eudora Welty Nobel Prize–winning author William Faulkner has deep Awards for Creative Writing roots in Tippah County, Mississippi. Two of his great-grand- to two Mississippi high fathers lived and died there, and both had a profound ef- school students for short fect on Faulkner as a man and as a writer. The more infa- stories or poetry written dur- mous of the two grandfathers was Colonel W. C. Falkner, ing the previous school year. who was fatally wounded on the Ripley courthouse square First place carries a prize of on November 5, 1889, by his former business partner R. $500 and second place a J. Thurmond. The Colonel’s story is retold by William prize of $250. University Faulkner in Flags in the Dust and The Unvanquished, with the professors judge the con- Colonel appearing as the character Colonel John Sartoris. test, and the winners and The Faulkner Heritage Festival seeks to explain to Ripley their parents and teachers natives and visitors alike the importance of the Colonel’s are invited to the opening story on William Faulkner’s writing. banquet at the start of the The 2011 Faulkner Heritage Festival will begin on First-place winner, Kate Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Thompson (second-place win- Friday, November 4, with a writer’s workshop led by Conference to accept their ner, Anna Adorno, not pictured) Ben McClelland, who teaches writing and literature at awards. This year, we had the University of over 25 entries from across the state. Interestingly, though our Mississippi, and will two winners come from different high schools, they both hail end on Saturday eve- from the town of Picayune. ning with a recep- The first-place winner for 2011 is Kate Thompson for her tion at the Harrison poem “Mama’s Hands.” The judges were impressed by Kate’s Law Office, which fea- “attention to detail and the way she used—in just 22 lines—a tures pictures of homes very simple scene to tell a larger story.” Kate is a 2011 graduate and people important of the Mississippi School for Math and Science in Columbus to Faulkner’s life and (MSMS) and a current resident of Picayune. In the fall, Kate work. Friday’s activities plans to attend Mississippi State University to major in bio- will also include a tour medical engineering with a pre-veterinary concentration. of the Ripley Cemetery Other than writing, her hobbies include stepping and modern where a 40-foot-tall dance. She also plays the piano and ukulele. Kate’s English Italian marble stat- teacher at MSMS, Emma Richardson, nominated her poem ue of Colonel Falkner for the award. This year marks the 10th time a student from overlooks the railroad the Mississippi School for Math and Science has placed in the he built, and a screen- contest. Colonel W. C. Falkner ing of a film version of The 2011 second-place winner is Anna Adorno for her Faulkner’s novel The poem “Thunder.” The judges remarked that Anna’s poem was Sound and the Fury. an “unusual metaphysical love poem, a mixture of intrigu- Festival activities on Saturday will include presentations ing images, and a curious investigation of the nature of time.” by historian Jack Elliott and literary scholar Sally Wolff- Anna is a 2011 graduate of the Mississippi School of the Arts King. Elliott will talk about his research of old land records in Brookhaven and also a current resident of Picayune. She in the Tippah County courthouse and their connections to plans to attend the University of Southern Mississippi in Faulkner’s family and fiction. Wolff-King will discuss her the fall and hopes to major in pre-medicine. Jeanne Lebow, new book, Ledgers of History, which reveals new sources for Anna’s English teacher at the School for the Arts, nominated Faulkner’s fiction. Local historian Bruce Smith will head Anna’s poem for the award. a two-hour walking tour of places in historic downtown For more information about the awards or to see a list of Ripley that figure into the Colonel Falkner saga. past winners, please visit the Center’s website. For details about the program and arrangements, visit Ripley Main Street on the Web at www.mainstreet.ripley. Sally Cassady Lyon ms or e-mail event coordinator Melinda Marsalis at msmel- [email protected].

Page 24 Summer 2011 The Southern Register 12th Annual Faulkner Fringe Festival Moves to Prime Time

Carolyn Ross was honored to lead off the first Faulkner Fringe Festival sched- George Kehoe and uled for prime time. Initiated 12 years Betty Harrington ago as a 10:00 p.m. event, the program was a response to the desire of Faulkner Conference attendees who were not on the formal program but who wished to have their say. Southside Gallery im- mediately offered a space for our ven- ue. Even with a change in ownership from Milly M. West to Wil and Vicki Cook, Southside has remained loyal to the Fringe program. This year, Faulkner Conference director Don Kartiganer was applauded for supporting the inde- pendent Fringe by attending and partic- ipating in the program for many years, and Beverly Carothers was thanked for serving as volunteer bartender and “bell ringer.” Presenters must do something related to William Faulkner (however remotely) and have a time lim- it of 10 minutes. If they go over time, Colby Kullman Beverly rings a chain of cowbells. This 11-year-old Lucius Priest to the four- tion of song, voice variations, and move- July, Betty Harrington joined Colby day adventure with Boon Hogganbeck ments brought Faulkner’s text alive. Kullman as co-host of the evening. driving Grandfather’s car to Memphis Jo Dale Mistilis told the story of ac- To begin the festival, Ross read a while the grownups were at a funeral on tor Juano Hernandez, who played the piece of several interludes from The the Coast. In the midst of rollicking fun part of Lucas Beauchamp in the film Reivers, featuring the response of and serious business, Faulkner inserts version of Faulkner’s Intruder in the narration that showcases Lucius’s take Dust, which was filmed in Oxford. In it, Colby Kullman on the battle between Virtue and Non- a proud, solitary black man in a small Virtue and why the latter always wins. Southern town is accused of murder- Reporting an epic journey not ing a white man known to be his ad- to Memphis but to the “loo” in the versary. Mistilis’s story explained that, Nebraska State Capitol, Chuck Peek as a Puerto Rican actor, Hernandez told of a personal adventure worthy of could find no lodgings in Oxford other Faulkner’s best comic characters. As he than in the home of G. W. Bankhead, passed the “heads” of the famous and Oxford’s black undertaker. Like his infamous national and local political Faulkner character, Hernandez accept- celebrities, Chuck reached many “in- ed this arrangement gracefully, wanting convenient truths” as he reflected on nothing more than his “receipt.” the meaning of life. Jim Carothers fol- Betty Harrington, widow of confer- lowed Peek, his longtime collaborator ence co-founder Evans Harrington, and in the Teaching Faulkner sessions of Oxford actor George Kehoe teamed up the Faulkner Conference, with a series for a medley of “Faulkner in His Own of comic memories and anecdotes from Words” that featured excerpts from in- earlier Faulkner Conferences. terviews and letters and an antiwar vi- Rebecca Jernigan performed a dramat- gnette from the Pulitzer Prize–winning ic reading from “Shingles for the Lord,” (1955) novel A Fable. For many years concluding with a song. Collaborating Mrs. Harrington directed dramatic Milly West with local musicians, she led the audi- readings of Faulkner’s work that were a ence in hymn singing. Her combina- staple of the conference.

The Southern Register Summer 2011 Page 25 Don Kartiganer talked about visits to Rowan Oak by the poet W. S. Merwin, the Czech Jewish novelist Arnos Lustig, and Salman Rushdie. He explains, “I think it was a good and CONTRIBUTORS representative example of the variety and quality of the writ- served as intern for the Southern ers who value Faulkner so highly. It’s like a trip to Lourdes, Sara Camp Arnold Foodways Alliance this summer. This fall she will return Jerusalem, or Mecca for healing or inspiration, depending on to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she is a graduate the need. I’m not sure I know of three more whom I found student in folklore at the University of North Carolina. so entertaining, but in the great Faulkner tradition I’m sure Arnold is also the editor of Gravy, the SFA’s quarterly I could make up a few. Howard Bahr, on the curator’s panel, food letter. alluded to writers as not being the most pleasant visitors, but that’s not been the case in my experience.” Mark Camarigg is the former assistant editor and cur- Milly West read a passage from As I Lay Dying and asked the rent publications manager for Living Blues magazine. audience if they recognized it. Of course they would, right? After all, these are Faulkner scholars. But, as she stated in her opening Rebecca Lauck Cleary is a communications spe- remarks, she was studying what she called “The Name Game,” cialist in the Office of Media and Public Relations at and in the paragraphs she selected she substituted John for Darl, the University of Mississippi. She received a BA in George for Vernon, Diana for Dewey Dell, Paul for Jewel, and Journalism from the University in 1997. Daddy for Pa. Nothing else was changed—not the quotes, the John T. Edge serves as director of the Southern events, the place—yet no one knew the passages. Her theory Foodways Alliance. He writes a monthly column, is that without the familiar Faulkner names, often well-known “United Tastes,” for the New York Times, is a contribut- passages are not recognizable. Milly also speculated that John ing editor at Garden & Gun, and is a longtime columnist Grisham follows Faulkner’s lead in using often outlandish names for the Oxford American. to make his stories more memorable. For this she read a passage from Grisham’s The Brethren in which she drew a comparison to Joan Wylie Hall teaches in the English Department Faulkner’s use of crazy unforgettable Southern names. at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Former student of Evans Harrington and retired librarian Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction and articles who worked with the Mississippi Collection on campus, B. C. on Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Grace King, Crawford told tales of Faulkner, Oxford, and Ole Miss that he Frances Newman, and other authors. was privy to in his tenure at the J. D. Williams Library. Donald M. Kartiganer is Howry Professor of Faulkner “Linda” concluded the Fringe program by revealing the in- Studies Emeritus at the University of Mississippi and di- credible hoax she has played at the Faulkner Conference for rector of the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference. the past three years. Everyone fell for a tale involving marriage, love, money, and power. Too intimate for the Southern Register, Colby H. Kullman is professor of English at the this tale must be told by “Linda” herself, so join us in 2012 and University of Mississippi. Among his publications are inquire if you dare. Perhaps in 2012 I shall learn her real name. Theatre Companies of the World and articles on Tennessee Williams and other modern dramatists. Colby H. Kullman Sally Cassady Lyon worked at the Center as the director’s assistant from 2004 to 2011. She is a Gulfport We would love to keep in closer touch native and Sewanee graduate. Sally and her husband, Dalton, have one daughter, Lucy Rose. They now live in with our friends. Two easy ways include: Memphis, Tennessee. 1. Facebook users, please “Like” the Center Panny Flautt Mayfield, an award-winning photographer for the Study of Southern Culture. Being a and journalist, is director of public relations at Coahoma Facebook Friend of the Center brings you Community College in Clarksdale, Mississippi. news large and small, announcements, job , director of the Center, holds a joint ap- ads, and occasional gossip. Ted Ownby pointment in Southern Studies and history. 2. Southern Register readers, please send us your e-mail addresses. At the Center we frequently hear that we should Sara Roahen is a Southern Foodways Alliance board remind Friends of the Center to make annual contribu- member and an oral historian for the SFA. tions. The easiest way for us to contact you, and one of Mary McKenzie Thompson is a farmer and retired high the easiest ways for you to contribute as a Friend of the school teacher of English and creative writing from Center, is through an annual e-mail message. Please send Clarksdale, Mississippi. your e-mail address to [email protected]. Being a friend means making responsible use of your e-mail—we won’t Jay Watson is Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and share it with anyone, we won’t treat you as if you just professor of English at the University of Mississippi, bought a sweater from us, and we promise to send you an where he teaches Southern literature. He currently e-mail just once a year. serves as president of the William Faulkner Society.

Page 26 Summer 2011 The Southern Register MIAL Awards Gala

The Mississippi Institute of Arts and Bridget Pieschel Letters (MIAL) marked its 32nd year with a Celebration of Arts and Letters at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on June 4, 2011. The weekend included readings and signings by MIAL award winners, the annual membership meeting, a reception honoring the year’s winners, and the awards banquet. Noted art historian Mary D. Garrard, a native of Indianola and Professor of Art History Emeritus at American University in Washington, D.C., received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Garrard’s scholarship has focused on Italian Renaissance art and feminist studies. Her book Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art is widely acknowledged as a major contribution to the history of art. Ava Leavell Haymon accepted the Left to right: Brad Watson; James Sclater; Mary Garrard; Rolland Golden; Ava Leavell Poetry Award for her book Why the House Haymon; Samuel Jones’s sister, Sarah Smith, accepting for him; Natasha Trethewey; and Oraien Catledge. Not pictured, Eden Brent. They are holding their MIAL 2011 awards, in- Is Made of Gingerbread. The Nonfiction dividual replications of Walter Anderson’s fairy tale figures, created by Shearwater Pottery. Award went to Natasha Trethewey for Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Winning the Fiction Award for his story collection MIAL President Bridget Pieschel Anne Robbins of Pontotoc, execu- Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives was presided at the banquet, and Mary tive secretary; and Bridget Pieschel of Brad Watson. Rolland Golden was pre- Anderson served as mistress of cer- Columbus, immediate past president. sented the Visual Arts Award for River emonies. In addition to a monetary Two new board members were also and Reverie: Paintings of the Mississippi by award, each winner also received a elected: Jimmy Thomas of Oxford and Rolland Golden. Oraien Catledge accept- fairy tale figure, originally created by Robin Dietrick of Jackson. ed the Photography Award for Oraien Walter Anderson and reproduced at Among the founders of MIAL were Catledge: Photographs. The Musical Shearwater Pottery. Aubrey Lucas, Noel Polk, William Composition (Contemporary/Popular) Officers for the coming year for MIAL Winter, Cora Norman, and Keith Award went to Eden Brent for Ain’t Got were elected at the annual member- Dockery McLean. Judges for the MIAL No Troubles. The Musical Composition ship meeting: David Beckley of Holly awards are chosen for their prominence (Classical/Concert) Award was shared by Springs, president; Sandra Shellnut in their respective fields and are all from Samuel Jones for Concerto for Violoncello of Pass Christian, vice-president; Jan out of state. The MIAL juried compe- and Orchestra and James Sclater for Taylor of Jackson, treasurer; Nancy tition is unique in Mississippi. Next Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble. Guice of Laurel, archivist; Margaret year’s awards ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, June 2, 2012, in the Grand Hall of the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi. Awards will be presented for works first shown, published, or performed in 2011. All nomi- In Memoriam nations must be made by MIAL members. Anyone may join MIAL and thus Dean Faulkner Wells be eligible to nominate artists in each Oxford, Mississippi category. For more information about MIAL and membership, visit the web- 1936–2011 site at www.ms-arts-letters.org.

Mary McKenzie Thompson

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19th Annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival October 14–15, 2011

Clarksdale, Mississippi’s 19th annual Panny Flautt Mayfield tinguished Broadway career, and presti- Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams gious actor/director Erma Duricko will Festival, October 14–15, 2011, will fo- present readings and conduct the stu- cus on the region’s signature drama, Cat dent acting workshops. Other seasoned on a Hot Tin Roof. Taking center stage actors presenting readings or porch plays in October will be veteran theater di- are Johnny McPhail and Alice Walker of rector Eda Holmes of Toronto, Canada, Oxford, Jeff Glickman of Pensacola, and who is directing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Sherrye Williams of Clarksdale. during the 50th season of the prestigious The festival includes receptions with Canadian Shaw Festival, running May Southern cuisine and blues and gospel through October. Miss Holmes, who music in historic homes; an organ re- in January 2011 visited Clarksdale and cital at St. George’s Episcopal Church; Coahoma County to research her pivot- a tour of St. George’s rectory, which fea- al role as director, will be describing her tures memorabilia from “Tom” Williams experiences directing the play and the On a research trip to Clarksdale in and early festivals; an open house at the impact of Tennessee Williams on her January 2011 Canadian theater director Clarksdale Woman’s Club; a lively stu- own career. She also will address student Eda Holmes and her husband, Tim, tour dent drama competition; and acting actors during the drama competition. the Clarksdale historic district, where the workshops. Accompanying Holmes will be two Tennessee Williams postage stamp was For updates on the festival’s schedule, unveiled in 1995 on the front porch of veteran Canadian actors performing visit www.coahomacc.edu/twilliams. the Tom Ross home (behind couple). scenes from Cat. Their interpretations Sponsored by Coahoma Community of classic Mississippi Delta characters College, the festival is free and open promise extraordinary interaction with to the public thanks to grants from the festival’s scholar panel, regional ac- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Mississippi Coahoma Community College, the tors, young Mississippi theater students Humanities Council Scholar Award Coahoma County Tourism Commission, competing in the festival’s acting com- winner Colby Kullman will moderate the Mississippi Arts Commission, the petition, and local Southerners. the panel with scholars Coop Cooper, Mississippi Humanities Council, the Eminent Williams scholar Kenneth Ann Fisher-Wirth, Dorothy Shawhan, Rock River Foundation, local business- Holditch will deliver the keynote ad- and Ralph Voss. Veteran theatrical writes, and individual donors. dress, “The Games That People Play: er/actor Jeremy Lawrence will discuss Croquet, Football, and Mendacity in Tennessee Williams and his own dis- Panny Flautt Mayfield

Two 2011 Book Conference Speakers Receive Prestigious Awards

Congratulations to 2011 Oxford Wright Thompson, a native of Human Interest Writing. Thompson, Conference for the Book speakers Clarksdale, Mississippi, won the 2011 a senior writer for ESPN.com and Joyce Farmer and Wright Thompson Scripps Howard Ernie Pyle Award for ESPN The Magazine, covers topics for their recent book awards. ranging from baseball to The National Cartoonists bullfighting. In 2010 he set

Society presented its award Jody Hoy a record by appearing for for the best graphic work of the fifth consecutive year 2010 to Farmer for Special in the annual Best American Exits, a memoir that details Sports Writing. The Scripps the decline and death of her Howard award recogniz- elderly parents and addresses es that Thompson’s “sto- caregiving issues for the elder- ries go beyond sports,” that ly today. Farmer was a pioneer he “looks beyond sports

of feminist underground com- Sonia Thompson to capture moments of ics with her series published humanity.” between 1972 and 1985. Special Exits is her first book. Wright Thompson Joyce Farmer b The Southern Register Summer 2011 Page 29

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