Presentation
Part 2: Engelhardt’s discussion of state market bulletins’ history, content, readership, circulation, and archival importance
Part 3: Engelhardt overviews the correspondence among bulletin readers and Lawrence
Part 4: Engelhardt asks questions such as, “What do farm bulletins and letters reveal about race, class, and gender history?”
Part 5: Engelhardt relates the influence of market bulletins in Eudora Welty’s “The Wanderers.”
Part 6: Engelhardt Q & A. Topics include how Lawrence’s correspondence inform her writing
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Northwestern State University of Louisiana’s Watson Memorial Library Cammie G. Henry Research Center for the materials from the Warren Way Collection, which were the inspiration for this talk and appear in facsimile in the video. Also thanks to the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for digitizing the 1920s market bulletins from Raleigh, North Carolina, which appear in the video. This presentation, given at Woodruff Library at Emory University, April 24, 2012, was sponsored by Emory’s American Studies Program and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library with support from the Hightower Fund.
About the Author
Elizabeth Engelhardt, professor of American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, writes about food, gender, race, and class in the US South. She is lead author of Republic of Barbecue: Stories Beyond the Brisket (2009) and author of A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food (2011). Engelhardt is co-editing (with John T. Edge and Ted Ownby) a forthcoming volume about southern food methodologies.