The very best essays from fifty years of scholarship and thought
Essays by Margaret Walker Alexander, Alfred Bendixen, David C.
Berry, Augustus M. Burns, James Taylor Carson, Thadious M. Davis,
Susan V. Donaldson, Don H. Doyle, Barbara C. Ewell, Robert L. Hall,
William H. Hatcher, Arthell Kelley, Manning Marable, Joseph
Millichap, Willie Morris, John Solomon Otto, Harriet Pollack,
Kathryn L. Seidel, John Ray Skates, Randy J. Sparks, Martha Swain,
and Anne Bradford Warner The Past Is Not Dead is a collection of
twenty literary and historical essays that will mark the fiftieth
anniversary of the Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly
journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies. Like its
companion volume Personal Souths, this essay collection features
the best work published in the journal. Essays represent every
decade of the journal's history, from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Topics range from historical essays on the Mississippi frontier,
southern religion, African culinary influences, and New Deal
politics, to literary essays on George W. Cable, James Dickey,
William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright. Important
regional subjects like the Yazoo Basin and Mississippi blues are
given special attention. Contributors range from such noted
literary figures as Margaret Walker Alexander and Willie Morris, to
literary critics Thadious M. Davis, Susan V. Donaldson, Kathryn L.
Seidel, and Joseph Millichap, to scholars of African American
studies such as Robert L. Hall and Manning Marable and historians
including Don H. Doyle, Randy J. Sparks, and Martha Swain.
Collectively, the essays in The Past Is Not Dead enrich and
illuminate our understanding of southern history, literature, and
culture, and celebrate the work of a distinctive, distinguished
journal.
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