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The silencing of Emily Mullen -- Brer Rabbit in China : Lelia Tuttle and the American missionary experience -- Gerald W. Johnson : the Southerner as realist -- James McBride Dabbs : Isaac McCaslin in South Carolina -- Louis Rubin, newspapering, and the autobiographical impulse -- The savage South : an inquiry into the origins, endurance, and presumed demise of an image -- "This hellawful South" : Mencken and the late Confederacy -- Of canons and culture wars : Southern literature at the millennium -- Post-Faulkner, post-Southern : Richard Ford's The sportswriter -- The loneliness artist : Mary Mebane's Mary and Mary, wayfarer -- Up in the country -- Booking passage : W.J. Cash and a Southern awakening -- My Dixie classic. |
