.Volume 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . ..2002

Ce Dell Davis’ Story and the Arkansas Delta Blues

by Barry Lee Pearson

from Closely Watched Lanes (poetry)

by Errol Miller

“Black and Furious”: The Racial Implications of Color in William Faulkner’s Sanctuary

by Amity J. Brown

Apo / Calypso (poetry)

by Gordon Osing

The Time They Called Him Boy (essay)

by Paul Ruffin

Elysian Fields (poetry)

by William Miller

The Sacred and Secular: My Search for Messages from God and Man

by Curtis Steele

The Cow Island Open (fiction)

by Eric Miles Williamson

Where the Delta Ends (poetry)

by Errol Miller

The Shotgun Houses of Trumann, Arkansas

by Richard Allen Burnes

Delta Sources and Resources

A selection of Delta Websites III by Guy Lancaster

Peter R. Aschoff (1949-2002)

Reviews

Chopin, At Fault: A Scholarly Edition with Background Readings, reviewed by Thomas Bonner Jr.Jones, Beatrice of Bayou Teche, reviewed by Joan Wylie Hall

Grau, The Hard Blue Sky, reviewed by Guy Lancaster

Dillard, The Book of Changes, reviewed by James Katowich

Wilcox, Miss Undine's Living Room, reviewed by C. D. Albin

Sullivan, Jesus and Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church: A Fable, reviewed by Danny Duncan Collum

Wiltz, Glass House, reviewed by Frances M. Malpezzi

de Man, The Talisman and Other Helena Poems, reviewed by Frances Hunter

Bausch, The Cry of an Occasion: Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, reviewed by Diane Payne

Inge and Piacentino, The Humor of the Old South, reviewed by James Kirkland

Ginés, The Southern Inheritors of Don Quixote, reviewed by Annette Trefzer

Nevils and Hardy, Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole, reviewed by Robert W. Rudnicki

Pollack and Marrs, Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade?, reviewed by Lisa Cade Wieland

Sandweiss, Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City, 1670-2000; Cuoco and Gass, Literary St. Louis: A Guide, reviewed by Robert Graybill

Cobb, From Quarry to Cornfield: The Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe Production, reviewed by Mark R. Schurr

Wyatt-Brown, The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1880s, reviewed by S. Charles Bolton

Billings and Fernandez, A Law Unto Itself? Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History, reviewed by John D. Smart

Coryell, Appleton, Sims, and Treadway, Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers That Be, reviewed by Elizabeth D. Leonard

Klier, Pavie in the Borderlands: The Journey of Théodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, 1829, Including Portions of His Souvenirs atlantiques, reviewed by Jenny Ellerbe

Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865, reviewed by Benjamin S. Lawson

Hughes, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Confederate, reviewed by James J. Johnston

Meek and Hattaway, Gettysburg to Vicksburg: The FiveOriginal Civil War Battlefield Parks, reviewed by Keith A. Sculle

Hollandsworth, An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866, reviewed by Lorien Foote

Perman, Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908, reviewed by Charles W. Eagles

Holley, The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South, reviewed by Tri Watkins

Davis, Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930, reviewed by L. T. Williams

Hauser, My Farm on the Mississippi: The Story of a German in Missouri, 1945-1948, reviewed by Linda S. Pickle

Shakoor, Civil Rights Childhood, reviewed by Janelle Collins

Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health, reviewed by Emilye Crosby

Cheseborough, Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, reviewed by Alan Brown

Schindler, Mardi Gras Treasures: Invitations of the Golden Age, reviewed by Carolyn Ware

Herndon, Canoeing Mississippi, reviewed by Peter R. Aschoff

Contributors

Photographs by Shannon Kyle Beasley, Leslie R. Chin, and Leif Hassell

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