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Summer 2004 Issue, Vol. LVII, No. 3

• "Kate Chopin's 'A Pair of Silk Stockings': The Marital Burden and the Lure of Consumerism," Allen Stein
  
• "Cultural Studies' Misfit: White Trash Studies," Dina Smith
  
• "Recognizing the Step: Rodney Jones and the Southern Speaking Poem," Jim Murphy
  
• "'Something Haphazard and Botched': Flannery O’Connor's Critique of the Visual in 'Parker's Back,'" Thomas F. Haddox
  
• "'Prodjickin', or mekin' a present to yo' fam'ly': Rereading Empowerment in Thomas Nelson Page's Frame Narratives," Taylor Hagood
  
• "Magical Realism and the Mississippi Delta," Art Taylor
  
• "Variations on the Grotesque: From Poe's 'The Black Cat' to Oates's 'The White Cat,'" Marita Nadal
  
• "Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories: A Commentary on the Cultural Ideologies of Gender Identity," Andrea K. Frankwitz
  
  
  

• Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith, eds., South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, reviewed by Leigh Anne Duck
  
• Ann Romines, ed., Willa Cather's Southern Connections: New Essays on Cather and the South; Janis P. Stout, Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World, reviewed by Margaret Anne O'Connor
  
• James R. Cothran, Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South, reviewed by Camilla Wilcox
  
• Patrick Bizzaro, ed., More Lights Than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, reviewed by Casey Clabough
  
• Lucy Conniff and Richard S. Kennedy, eds., The Autobiographical Outline for 'Look Homeward, Angel' by Thomas Wolfe, reviewed by Joseph M. Flora
  
  
  

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