Introduction
Katharine A. Burnett, Todd Hagstette, and Monica Carol Miller
Part I: Foundations
Introduction: Foundations
Todd Hagstette
1. Academic Origins of Southern Studies (Spotlight: I'll Take My Stand)
Ted Atkinson
2. Antebellum Literature (Spotlight: William Gilmore Simms)
Katharine A. Burnett
3. Appalachian Literature (Spotlight: Ron Rash)
Zackary Vernon
4. The Civil War (Spotlight: Augusta Jane Evans)
Karen Tracey
5. Class and Economics (Spotlight: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941))
David A. Davis
6. Colonial Writing (Spotlight: John Smith)
Dan Waldon
7. Community (Spotlight: Monique Truong)
Elizabeth Gardner
8. Drama (Spotlight: Tennessee Williams)
William Mark Poteet
9. Film (Spotlight: Deliverance)
Robert Jackson
10. Foodways (Spotlight: Rick Bragg)
Erica Abrams Locklear
11. Gender (Spotlight: Sherley Anne Williams)
Michael Bibler
12. The Global South (Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi)
Amy K. King
13. The Harlem Renaissance (Spotlight: Jean Toomer)
Ricardo A. Wilson II
14. Home (Spotlight: Alice Walker)
Nagueyalti Warren
15. Humor (Spotlight: Mark Twain)
John Bird
16. Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Era (Spotlight: To Kill a Mockingbird)
Julie Buckner Armstrong
17. Local Color and Regionalism (Spotlight: Charles Chesnutt)
Bill Hardwig
18. Modernism (Spotlight: William Faulkner)
Thomas F. Haddox
19. Music (Spotlight: The Country-Soul Triangle [Memphis-Muscle Shoals-Nashville])
Ellie Campbell
20. Native Souths (Spotlight: LeAnne Howe)
Kirstin L. Squint
21. Poetry and Verse (Spotlight: Natasha Trethewey)
Christie Collins
22. Postbellum Literature (Spotlight: Thomas Nelson Page)
Christopher Bundrick
23. Reconstruction and the New South (Spotlight: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper)
Sherita Johnson
24. Religion (Spotlight: Flannery O'Connor)
Matt Bryant Cheney
25. Science and Technology (Spotlight: Walker Percy)
Doug Davis
26. Sexuality (Spotlight: Kate Chopin)
Jaime Cantrell
27. Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Frederick Douglass)
Sandra Burr
28. Southern Gothic (Spotlight: Toni Morrison)
Melanie Anderson
29. Southern Periodical Culture (Spotlight: The Double Dealer [1921-1926])
Sian Round
30. Wilderness South (Spotlight: James Kilgo)
Anthony Dyer Hoefer
Part II: Touchstones
Introduction: Touchstones
Katharine A. Burnett
31. Anti-Tom Literature (Spotlight: Caroline Lee Hentz)
Peter Templeton
32. Asian American South (Spotlight: Ha Jin)
Suzanne Kamata
33. Autobiography (Spotlight: Maya Angelou)
Matthew Sutton
34. Blues (Spotlight: Langston Hughes)
Elizabeth LeRud
35. Children's Literature (Spotlight: Mildred Taylor)
Laura Hakala
36. Classical Music (Spotlight: James Weldon Johnson)
Tamyln Avery
37. Cold War Literature (Spotlight: Ralph Ellison)
Atsushi Marutani
38. Cosmopolitanism (Spotlight: Edgar Allan Poe)
Kristopher Mecholsky
39. Creolization (Spotlight: George Washington Cable)
Amanda M. Capelli
40. Detective and Mystery Fiction (Spotlight: Margaret Maron)
John Jebb
41. Early Contact Souths (Spotlight: La Florida)
E. Thomson Shields, Jr.
42. Ecocriticism and the Environment (Spotlight: Wendell Berry)
Sarah-Marie Horning
43. Feminism (Spotlight: Lee Smith)
Monica Carol Miller
44. Grit Lit (Spotlight: Larry Brown)
Peter Jay Ingrao
45. Hispanophone Literatures (Spotlight: Nineteenth-Century Hispanophone Periodical Poetry)
Ayendy Bonifacio
46. Ireland and the U.S. South (Spotlight: Lafcadio Hearn)
Jessica L. Martell
47. The Lost Cause Myth (Spotlight: Gone with the Wind)
Sean Heuston
48. Masculinity (Spotlight: Robert Penn Warren)
Wes Berry
49. Migration (Spotlight: Gayl Jones)
Joanna Davis-McElligatt
50. New Southern Studies (Spotlight: Kiese Laymon)
Kathryn McKee
51. Nostalgia (Spotlight: Peter Taylor)
W. Matthew J. Simmons
52. Old Southwestern Humor (Spotlight: Johnson Jones Hooper)
John Miller
53. Plantation Fiction (Spotlight: John Pendleton Kennedy)
Christopher Bundrick
54. Postbellum Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Booker T. Washington)
Adam Yeich
55. Pre-Invasion Indigenous Texts (Spotlight: Cherokee Oral Stories)
Eric Gary Anderson
56. The Proslavery Argument (Spotlight: James Henry Hammond)
Todd Hagstette
57. Southern Diarists (Spotlight: Mary Chesnut)
Julia Nitz
58. Television (Spotlight: Ava DuVernay, Queen Sugar)
Stephanie Rountree
59. The Transatlantic South (Spotlight: Katherine Anne Porter)
Joseph Kuhn
60. Virginia before Jefferson (Spotlight: William Byrd II)
Amanda Louise Johnson
61. Women's Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Harriet Ann Jacobs)
Delphine Louis-Dimitrov
Part III: Trajectories
Introduction: Trajectories
Monica Carol Miller
62. Activism (Spotlight: Toni Cade Bambara)
Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder
63. Affect (Spotlight: Eudora Welty)
Jill Fennell
64. Afrofuturism (Spotlight: W.E.B. Du Bois)
Samanda Robinson
65. Border Souths (Spotlight: Cormac McCarthy)
Sally Ann Schutz
66. The Carceral South (Spotlight: Ernest Gaines)
Elizabeth Steeby
67. Comics in the U.S. South (Spotlight: Nate Powell)Matthew Teutsch
68. Disability Studies (Spotlight: Carson McCullers)
Bruce Henderson
69. Environmental Refugees (Spotlight: Moira Crone)
Zackary Vernon
70. The Freak South (Spotlight: Erskine Caldwell)
Erik Kline
71. The Gulf South (Spotlight: Jesmyn Ward)
Jim Coby
72. Hip Hop and the South (Spotlight: Atlanta Hip Hop)
Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
73. Lesbian South (Spotlight: Dorothy Allison)
Jamie Harker
74. Mill Town Literature (Spotlight: Wiley Cash)
Jimmy Dean Smith
75. Multiethnic Souths (Spotlight: Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge)
Amy Schmidt
76. Neo-Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Colson Whitehead)
Allison Harris
77. New Media (Spotlight: Blake Hausman)
Gina Caison
78. The Ozarks (Spotlight: Donald Harington)
Joe Farmer
79. Plantationocene (Spotlight Randall Kenan)
Sandra Burr
80. Queer Souths (Spotlight: Randall Kenan)
Eric Solomon
81. Southern Cityscapes (Spotlight: George Saunders)
William Murray
82. Southern Hyperboles (Spotlight: Lillian Smith)
Michal Choinski
83. Southern Pirates (Spotlight: Joseph Holt Ingraham)
Kathleen Crosby
84. The Speculative South (Spotlight: Octavia Butler)
Ellie Campbell
85. Trans and Non-Binary Souths (Spotlight: Meredith Russo)
Phillip "Pip" Gordon
86. Trauma (Spotlight: William Styron)
Jean W. Cash
87. Undead Souths (Spotlight: Dead Birds)Eric Gary Anderson
88. Understanding Southern Studies and Cultural Studies
Jennie Lightweis-Goff
