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Yankee Interloper and Native Son: Carl Carmer and Clarence Cason: Unlikely Twins of Alabama Expose

Yankee Interloper and Native Son: Carl Carmer and Clarence Cason: Unlikely Twins of Alabama Expose SC 9.1-Beidler 2/6/03 10:52 AM Page 18   ...................... Yankee Interloper and Native Son: Carl Carmer and Clarence Cason Unlikely Twins of Alabama Exposé by Philip Beidler n the early 1930s, Carl Carmer and Clarence Cason wrote two remarkably similar, controversial cultural exposés of early-twen- tieth-century Alabama—Stars Fell on Alabama (1934) and 90 De- grees in the Shade (1935). One author was a cultural outsider; the I other was an Alabamian born and bred. Yet despite this differ- ence, the shared cultural fable they fashioned became an intensely southern story: both humorous and dark, teasing and haunted, absurd and poignant to the point of being lurid in Carmer’s case and even tragic in Cason’s. Moreover, the authors’ strangely intertwined destinies, down to the similarities of their names and the comparable subjects and timing of their books, are marked by biographical and literary coincidences hardly seen in fiction, not to mention history. Yet their story is equally important as a parable of numerous intensely human missed connec- tions and ill-imagined mirrorings as well—the ironies of a peculiarly southern and peculiarly modern set of meanings and morals. The setting was Tuscaloosa, Alabama, once a bustling river town and site of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Yankee Interloper and Native Son: Carl Carmer and Clarence Cason: Unlikely Twins of Alabama Expose

Beidler, Philip D.
Southern Cultures , Volume 9 (1) – Mar 31, 2003
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SC 9.1-Beidler 2/6/03 10:52 AM Page 18   ...................... Yankee Interloper and Native Son: Carl Carmer and Clarence Cason Unlikely Twins of Alabama Exposé by Philip Beidler n the early 1930s, Carl Carmer and Clarence Cason wrote two remarkably similar, controversial cultural exposés of early-twen- tieth-century Alabama—Stars Fell on Alabama (1934) and 90 De- grees in the Shade (1935). One author was a cultural outsider; the I other was an Alabamian born and bred. Yet despite this differ- ence, the shared cultural fable they fashioned became an intensely southern story: both humorous and dark, teasing and haunted, absurd and poignant to the point of being lurid in Carmer’s case and even tragic in Cason’s. Moreover, the authors’ strangely intertwined destinies, down to the similarities of their names and the comparable subjects and timing of their books, are marked by biographical and literary coincidences hardly seen in fiction, not to mention history. Yet their story is equally important as a parable of numerous intensely human missed connec- tions and ill-imagined mirrorings as well—the ironies of a peculiarly southern and peculiarly modern set of meanings and morals. The setting was Tuscaloosa, Alabama, once a bustling river town and site of

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