In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction

Haints, Hollers, and Hoodoo

Kinitra D. Brooks
pp. 2-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917558
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Southern Voices

Something Beautiful out of the Darkness

Jesmyn Ward, Regina N. Bradley
pp. 8-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917559
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Essay

Specters of the Mythic South: How Plantation Fiction Fixed Ghost Stories to Black Americans

Alena Pirok
pp. 16-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917560
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Photo Essay

What Has Been Will Be Again

Jared Ragland, Catherine Wilkins
pp. 32-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917561
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Snapshot

Fear of a Black (Southern) Planet: Kara Walker's Night Conjure

Kameelah L. Martin
pp. 50-53
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917562
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Snapshot

Mama Possum

John Jennings
pp. 54-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917563
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Fiction

Night Walker

Kimberly Anderson
pp. 57-59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917564
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Fiction

A Girl, a Man, a Storm, a City

K. Ibura
pp. 60-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917565
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Fiction/Photo Essay

Blood Harmony

Rebecca Bengal, Kristine Potter
pp. 64-75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917566
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Snapshot

Dark Corners: The Appalachian Murder Ballad

Julyan Davis
pp. 76-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917567
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Not Forgotten

Mystery of the Talking Skull: Family Secrets in Southern Appalachia

Stephen Simmons
pp. 78-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917568
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Back Porch

The Uncanny Keep On Talkin'

Regina N. Bradley
pp. 92-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917569
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Mason–Dixon Lines

& When They Come For Me (Reprise)

Golden
pp. 96-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917570
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Contributors

pp. 98-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2023.a917571
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