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Contents—Issue Number 8, 1999

The Civil War and Reconstruction | Plantation Literature
Poetry, Prose, and Fiction  | Book Reviews | North Carolina Writers


The Civil War and Reconstruction

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Women Civil War Reenactors: A Combat Dispatch from Fort Branch, by Patrick Huber
photography by Glenda Jakubowski
   
It's a Guy Thing, by Glenda Jakubowski
   
Abram Joseph Ryan, by Lorraine Hale Robinson
   
Cold Mountain in Time and Place, by Paul D. Knoke
art by Donald R. Sexauer
   
Cold Mountain, Bushwhackers, and the Guerrilla War in Appalachian North Carolina, a review by William Trotter
photography by David Newton
   
Mary Bayard Clarke and the Yankee Occupation of Raleigh, by Terrell Armistead Crow and Mary Moulton Barden
   
A Mind of the South: An Epistolary Perspective on the Reconstruction Era, by Amanda Tilley
   
A Civil War Letter from Richard to His Father, introduced by Randall Martoccia, edited by Amanda Tilley with Allyson Michelle Graham
art by James I. McElhinney
   
Gray Ghosts and Fading Hope: Two Views of Wilmington's Civil War History, a review by William Thiesen
   
"Living for Dixie": The Refrain of Postwar Nationalism in Two North Carolina Magazines, by Sharon Kennedy-Nolle
   
The Iconography of Postwar Magazine Covers, by Lorraine Hale Robinson
   
Singular Devotion and a Compound of Incongruities: Bryan Grimes and Thomas L. Clingman of North Carolina, a review by Mark A. Moore
   

Ante- and Postbellum North Carolina Plantation Literature

    

Speaking the Silences of Slavery: Carolina Lee Hentz's The Planter's Northern Bride and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Heidi LM Jacobs
   
Blurring the Color Line in Carolina Lee Hentz's Marcus Warland, by Betina Entzminger
   
What We Can Learn from a Better Bibliographical Record of Charles W. Chesnutt's Periodical Fiction, by Charles Johanningsmeier
   
Frisk's First Rat, an uncollected story by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
   
Black Voices, White Stories: An Intertextual Analysis of Thomas Nelson Page and Charles Waddell Chesnutt, by Keith Byerman
   
The Charles W. Chesnutt Association, by Stephanie Russell
   
The Civil War Imaginations of Thomas Dixon and Charles Chesnutt; Or, North Carolina, "This Strange World of Poisoned Air," by Judith Jackson Fossett
art by Shelton Bryant
   
The Story of Wildacres Retreat, by Becky Story
   
"We Were Whole Again": Kaye Gibbons's On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, by Mary Ann Wilson
   

Poetry, Prose, and Fiction

    

Chasing Johnny Armstrong, a poem by Al Maginnes
photography by W. Cameron Dennis
   
Miriam: Pine Barrens, a poem by Richard Chess
photography by Tama Hochbaum
   
Robin Braswell vs. Calley Braswell, Jinny Emery vs. Stephen Emery, and Michael Shoffner vs. Sarah Shoffner, three poems by Dannye Romine Powell
   
The Walls of the West of Ireland and What the Rain Said This Morning, two poems by Jeffrey Franklin
photography by C. W. Sullivan, III, and Tama Hochbaum
   
On the Silver Coast, a poem by Minnie Bruce Pratt
photography by Jacobus Boers
   
Last Judgment and Flag, two poems by Becke Roughton
photography by Steve Bauler and Jacobus Boers
   
Political Sonata, a poem by Christopher Davis
photography by Tama Hochbaum
   
Trains, an essay by Rebecca McClanahan
photography by Mary Thiesen
   
The Bad Motor on the Good Sheet, a short story by Ruth Moose
photography by Susan Young and Brandie Knox Kirkman
   
A Visitor, 1923, a short story by Eleanor Ross Taylor
photography by Joyce Joines Newman and Steve Bauler
   

Book Reviews

    

Learning to Listen, a review of Olive Tilford Dargan's From My Highest Hill by Walter Squire
photograph by Bayard Wootten
   
Laying the Rails, Crafting the Text, a review of John Ehle's The Road, by John Lang
   
Lessons in Memory: Jill McCorkle's Latest Collection of Stories, a review by Christina G. Bucher
   
Energetic Disturbances: A Debut Short Story Collection by June Spence, a review by Joy Castro
   
Newsrooms and Fishing Ponds: First Novels from Two North Carolina Writers, a review by Erik Bledsoe
illustrations by Daniel Wallace
   
Threads of a Dark Design, a review of Katheryn Stripling Byer's Black Shawl, by Peter Makuck
   
An Equal and Opposite Reaction: On the Poetry of Kathleen Halme and Michael White, a review by Jeffrey Franklin
art by Claude Howell
   

North Carolina Writers

    

Local and National Efforts to Honor George Moses Horton, by Marjorie Hudson
   
Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Inborden to Kuralt, by Lorraine Hale Robinson
   
NC Newsbriefs
   


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Greenville NC 27858-4353 | (252) 328-1537 | BauerM@ecu.edu

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