Introduction: A Glass Half Full (Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger)
Section One: Alcoholism, Temperance, and the South
1. Alison Arant (Wagner College), Mama Likes Her Gin: Black Blues Women, Freedom, and Alcohol in the Prohibition South
2. John Stromski (Independent Scholar), The Spirits of Tradition: Calhoun Cocktails, Douglass Temperance, and Charles Chesnutt
3. Susan Zieger (University of California, Riverside), The Last Black Temperance Activist: Frances Harper and the Black Public Sphere
4. Cara Koehler (University of Bamberg, Germany), “It’s either the candy or the hooch”: Unlawful Appetites and Abject Bodies in Orson Welles’ Border Film Touch of Evil
5. Matthew Sutton (East Tennessee State University), The Tennessee Two-Step: Narrating Recovery in Country-Music Autobiography
Section Two: Revising Narrative through Intoxication
6. Caleb Doan (Louisiana State University) and J. Gerald Kennedy (Louisiana State University), Drink, Doubling, and Perverseness in Poe’s Fiction
7. Katharine A. Burnett (Fisk University), The Methodical Drinker: Alcohol, Economics, and Regional Identity in Early Virginian Literature
8. Zackary Vernon (Appalachian State University), The Inebriation and Adaptation of Larry Brown’s Big Bad Love
9. Monica C. Miller (Middle Georgia State University), Flannery O’Connor, “Interleckchuls,” and Cocktail Culture
10. Ellen Lansky (Inver Hills Community College), Trashed: Women Under the Influence of Alcohol in Wright’s Native Son
11. David A. Davis (Mercer University), Miss Amelia’s Liquor: “The Ballad of the Sad Café” and Surregionalism
Section Three: Alcohol’s Production, Commodification, and Circulation in the South
12. Jenna Sciuto (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts), Racial Ambiguity, Bootlegging, and the Subversion of Plantation Hierarchies in Faulkner’s South
13. Christopher Rieger (Southeast Missouri State University), Moonshine in the Sunshine State: Alcohol’s Roots and Routes in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s South Moon Under and Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not
14. Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield (Carson-Newman University), Granny Fees for Apple Pie: Gender and the Settler South in Moonshine Cinema
15. Robert Rea (University of Mississippi), The Bourbon Street Hustle: Midcentury Tourism in John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces
16. Hannah C. Griggs (Emory University), Jim Crow, Mardi Gras, and the Ojen Cocktail
17. Jennie Lightweis-Goff (University of Mississippi), W’s Good Time
Contributors
