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Front Porch

Front Porch Readers sometimes ask how we at Southern Cultures find essays whose themes fit neatly together. I’d like to say that we have a stable of faithful geniuses who turn out matched sets of literary gems on regular orders, but my nose would grow. In truth, we’re mostly dependent on the kindness of friends and strangers alike, and most of our pieces come in by surprise. But it’s true that certain themes keep coming up in the material that people send us, which tells me that lots of people are chewing over the issue of regional culture and, especially, how it fits with anything larger, or at least anything else. Are southern cultures “traditional” or “modern”? Part of American culture or something different? Pure or polyglot? Alive or dead? These are among the ques- tions that keep coming up, and they command as many answers as we have writ- ers—and probably more. The articles in this issue are no exception. Author Benjamin Filene, for exam- ple, cannot resist a return to the well-known recent film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which is itself a kind of return to an imagined version of the 1930s South. above: There are few more http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Front Porch

Watson, Harry L.
Southern Cultures , Volume 10 (2) – Jun 8, 2004
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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2004 Center for the Study of the American South.
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Readers sometimes ask how we at Southern Cultures find essays whose themes fit neatly together. I’d like to say that we have a stable of faithful geniuses who turn out matched sets of literary gems on regular orders, but my nose would grow. In truth, we’re mostly dependent on the kindness of friends and strangers alike, and most of our pieces come in by surprise. But it’s true that certain themes keep coming up in the material that people send us, which tells me that lots of people are chewing over the issue of regional culture and, especially, how it fits with anything larger, or at least anything else. Are southern cultures “traditional” or “modern”? Part of American culture or something different? Pure or polyglot? Alive or dead? These are among the ques- tions that keep coming up, and they command as many answers as we have writ- ers—and probably more. The articles in this issue are no exception. Author Benjamin Filene, for exam- ple, cannot resist a return to the well-known recent film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which is itself a kind of return to an imagined version of the 1930s South. above: There are few more

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Published: Jun 8, 2004

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