Most Recent Articles from Southern Quarterly

• Editor's Introduction 

  This special issue of The Southern Quarterly, "The South in a Global Context," seeks to explore the ways the South has always been and continues to...

  04/01/09 by Iglesias, Luis A · More from publication

• New Empire in the 'New South': Jim Crow in the Global Frontier of High Imperialism and Decolonization, The 

  The legacy of Jim Crow, that epoch of social order that defined race relations in the American South for two-thirds of the twentieth century, takes...

  04/01/09 by Darden, Gary Helm · More from publication

• Writing the Borderline Subject of War in Susan Choi's The Foreign Student1 

  "An international framework helps us discover what happened at home. External events affect internal American histories. Even the terms -...

  04/01/09 by Parikh, Crystal · More from publication

• Ever-Expanding South: James Weldon Johnson and the Rhetoric of the Global Color Line, The 

  The influence of Latin America on James Weldon Johnson, as an author, an activist, and as the leader of the NAACP, is often overlooked despite a...

  04/01/09 by Page, Amanda M · More from publication

• Transnational Vision of Richard Wright's Pagan Spain, The 

  In his paradigmatic book, The Black Atlantic (1993), Paul Gilroy devotes a long chapter to Richard Wright's works, placing him at the center of...

  04/01/09 by Lowe, John W · More from publication

• Exploding the Canon/Cannon: Elizabeth Spencer's The Light in the Piazza 

  One of the chief preoccupations of what has been termed the "new southern studies," is dismantling the once sacrosanct notion of "place," a...

  04/01/09 by Seltzer, Catherine · More from publication

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