table of contents
Editor’s Note: Holding Pattern
Sharon P. Holland
Re-Imagining Slavery in the Hip-Hop Imagination
Regina N. Bradley
Declining Misery: Rural Florida’s Hmong and Korean Farmers
Joo Ook Kim
Taste as Emotion: The Synesthetic Body in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth
Jenn Brandt
“I’d sing You a Song if I Could Sing”: Art and Artifice in Ellen Douglas’s Can’t Quit You, Baby
Jaydn DeWald
Not Real Good at Modern Life: Appalachian Pentecostals in the Works of Lee Smith
Andrew Connolly
Fantasy and Haiti’s Erasure in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
Wanda Raiford
Laying Down the Rails: Sacred and Secular Groundwork in Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine and King Vidor’s Hallelujah
Leslie E. Wingard
