2011 Studies in American Culture - 34.1
Symposium: Excavating Place
Jim Warren
Digging into Place
John Lane
Excavation as an Environmental Idea
John Leland
The Place You Find Yourself
Janisse Ray
An Excavation of Place
Articles
Karl Shaddox
Is Nothing Sacred?: Testing for Human in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Sirpa Salenius
Defining America through the “International Theme”:
Nathaniel Parker Willis’s Paul Fane (1857)
Alex Pitofsky
Masculine Competition and Boarding-School Culture in The Catcher in the Rye
Erich Nunn
“He Ain’t Wrong, He’s Just Different”: Willie Nelson’s Queer Outlaws
Thomas Ruys Smith
“Bring Our Country Back”: Country Music, Conservatives, and the Counter-Culture in 1968
Suzanne Parenti Sink
Fueling the Southern Underground Movement: Inquisition v. The City of Charlotte
Poems
Henry Wise
Twelve Drops
Ted Olson
Three Poems
Review Essay
David Fillingim
Reading Old-Time and Americana Music
Reviews
Todd Kennedy
Films by Gordon Ball, by Gordon Ball
Rob McDonald
Gravely Concerned: Southern Writers’ Graves, by John Soward Bayne, and A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses, by Anne Trubek
Dennis Hall
Winchell and Runyon: The True Untold Story, by Trustin Howard
Mary Beth Pennington
Democracy and Rhetoric: John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming, by Nathan Crick
Kary Doyle Smout
Preaching the Inward Light: Early Quaker Rhetoric, by Michael P. Graves
Ryan R. Holston
Bye Bye Miss American Empire: Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and Their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America’s Political Map, by Bill Kauffman
Louis Blair
Toward Wiser Public Judgment, Edited by Daniel Yankelovich and Will Friedman
Rodger A. Bates
The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, by David Kilcullen
Margaret Earley Whitt
Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, Edited by Harvey Molotch and Laura Noren
Thomas E. Douglass
Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians, by Alan Jabbour and Karen Jabbour
Tom Jacobs
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher, by Frederick L. Kirschenmann
Jennifer Gunter
Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film, by Ruth Barton
David L. Vanderwerken
Authors Out Here: Fitzgerald, West, Parker, and Schulberg in Hollywood, by Tom Cerasulo
Jo Koster
Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France, by Daniel S. Pierce
Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland
War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914, by Cynthia Wachtell
Betina Entzminger
In the Shadow of the Black Beast: African American Masculinity in the Harlem and Southern Renaissances, by Andrew B. Leiter
Andrew B. Leiter
Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination, by Darieck Scott
Sylvia Cook
Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America, by James B. Salazar
Bob Coleman
Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts, by Henry Louis Gates
John Leland
Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane, by Mark A. Smith
Elizabeth Cummins
My Old Kentucky Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans, by Rusty Williams
Bob Coleman
Lincoln on Trial: Southern Civilians and the Law of Order, by Burrus M. Carnahan
Ted Olson
Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky, by John Ed Pearce
Notes on Contributors
Cover – Nic Persinger, “Sabraton Esso Station, West Virginia” (2011)