SUZANNE DISHEROON-GREEN is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Northwestern State University. Her previous books include Kate Chopin: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Works (Greenwood, 1999), Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana (Greenwood, 2001), and At Fault by Kate Chopin: A Scholarly Edition with Background Readings (2001).LISA ABNEY is Director of the Louisiana Folklife Center and Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern State University. She coedited Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana (Greenwood, 2001) and has served as guest editor for Southern Studies. She is also the general editor of Louisiana Folklife.

• Foreward: The Artful and Crafty Ones of the French Quarter by Robin Miller Introduction: Building Literary Louisiana Women, Work, and Culture in Reconstruction Louisiana Under Reconstruction: Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans (1877-1887) by Richard Collins Sallie Rhett Roman of the New Orleans Times-Democrat: Race, Women, and Southern Aristocracy in the Novellas, Tonie (1900) and Folette of Timbalier Island (1900) by Nancy Dixon "Do You Not Know That Women Can Make Money?": Women and Labor in Louisiana Literature by Tiffany Duet Living "Amid Romance": Ethnic Cultures in Ruth McEnery Stuart's New Orleans Stories by Joan Wiley Hall Louisiana During the Modernist Period 1919-1945 William Faulkner's Two-Basket Stories by Jo LeCoeur Cakewalks, Cauls, and Conjure: Folk Traditions in Arna Bontemp's God Sends Sunday and "A Summer Tragedy" by Lisa Abney "Huey Long" as Deep South Dictator: A Lion is in the Streets as Novel and Film by Philip Dubuisson Castille Depictions of Race and Class 1865-1945 Behind "The White Veil": Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Creole Color, and The Goodness of St. Rocque by Pamela Glenn Menke Masking and Racial Passing at Mardi Gras in Lyle Saxon's "Have a Good Time While You Can" by Larry D. Griffin "The nigger that's going to sleep with your sister": Charles Bon as Cultural Shibboleth in Absalom, Absalom! by Erin E. Campbell The "All-Seeing Eye" in Grace King's Balcony Stories by Susie Scifres Kuilan The Irreducible African: Challenges to Racial Stereotypes in George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes by R. Allen Alexander, Jr. "Why Don't She Stay in Her Class?": Caste Structures in Lyle Saxon's Children of Strangers and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God by Suzanne Disheroon-Green Bibliography Index

SUZANNE DISHEROON-GREEN is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Northwestern State University. Her previous books include Kate Chopin: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Works (Greenwood, 1999), Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana (Greenwood, 2001), and At Fault by Kate Chopin: A Scholarly Edition with Background Readings (2001).LISA ABNEY is Director of the Louisiana Folklife Center and Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern State University. She coedited Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana (Greenwood, 2001) and has served as guest editor for Southern Studies. She is also the general editor of Louisiana Folklife.

• Foreward: The Artful and Crafty Ones of the French Quarter by Robin Miller Introduction: Building Literary Louisiana Women, Work, and Culture in Reconstruction Louisiana Under Reconstruction: Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans (1877-1887) by Richard Collins Sallie Rhett Roman of the New Orleans Times-Democrat: Race, Women, and Southern Aristocracy in the Novellas, Tonie (1900) and Folette of Timbalier Island (1900) by Nancy Dixon "Do You Not Know That Women Can Make Money?": Women and Labor in Louisiana Literature by Tiffany Duet Living "Amid Romance": Ethnic Cultures in Ruth McEnery Stuart's New Orleans Stories by Joan Wiley Hall Louisiana During the Modernist Period 1919-1945 William Faulkner's Two-Basket Stories by Jo LeCoeur Cakewalks, Cauls, and Conjure: Folk Traditions in Arna Bontemp's God Sends Sunday and "A Summer Tragedy" by Lisa Abney "Huey Long" as Deep South Dictator: A Lion is in the Streets as Novel and Film by Philip Dubuisson Castille Depictions of Race and Class 1865-1945 Behind "The White Veil": Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Creole Color, and The Goodness of St. Rocque by Pamela Glenn Menke Masking and Racial Passing at Mardi Gras in Lyle Saxon's "Have a Good Time While You Can" by Larry D. Griffin "The nigger that's going to sleep with your sister": Charles Bon as Cultural Shibboleth in Absalom, Absalom! by Erin E. Campbell The "All-Seeing Eye" in Grace King's Balcony Stories by Susie Scifres Kuilan The Irreducible African: Challenges to Racial Stereotypes in George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes by R. Allen Alexander, Jr. "Why Don't She Stay in Her Class?": Caste Structures in Lyle Saxon's Children of Strangers and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God by Suzanne Disheroon-Green Bibliography Index

SUZANNE DISHEROON-GREEN is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Northwestern State University. Her previous books include Kate Chopin: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Works (Greenwood, 1999), Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana (Greenwood, 2001), and At Fault by Kate Chopin: A Scholarly Edition with Background Readings (2001).LISA ABNEY is Director of the Louisiana Folklife Center and Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern State University. She coedited Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana (Greenwood, 2001) and has served as guest editor for Southern Studies. She is also the general editor of Louisiana Folklife.

• Foreward: The Artful and Crafty Ones of the French Quarter by Robin Miller Introduction: Building Literary Louisiana Women, Work, and Culture in Reconstruction Louisiana Under Reconstruction: Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans (1877-1887) by Richard Collins Sallie Rhett Roman of the New Orleans Times-Democrat: Race, Women, and Southern Aristocracy in the Novellas, Tonie (1900) and Folette of Timbalier Island (1900) by Nancy Dixon "Do You Not Know That Women Can Make Money?": Women and Labor in Louisiana Literature by Tiffany Duet Living "Amid Romance": Ethnic Cultures in Ruth McEnery Stuart's New Orleans Stories by Joan Wiley Hall Louisiana During the Modernist Period 1919-1945 William Faulkner's Two-Basket Stories by Jo LeCoeur Cakewalks, Cauls, and Conjure: Folk Traditions in Arna Bontemp's God Sends Sunday and "A Summer Tragedy" by Lisa Abney "Huey Long" as Deep South Dictator: A Lion is in the Streets as Novel and Film by Philip Dubuisson Castille Depictions of Race and Class 1865-1945 Behind "The White Veil": Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Creole Color, and The Goodness of St. Rocque by Pamela Glenn Menke Masking and Racial Passing at Mardi Gras in Lyle Saxon's "Have a Good Time While You Can" by Larry D. Griffin "The nigger that's going to sleep with your sister": Charles Bon as Cultural Shibboleth in Absalom, Absalom! by Erin E. Campbell The "All-Seeing Eye" in Grace King's Balcony Stories by Susie Scifres Kuilan The Irreducible African: Challenges to Racial Stereotypes in George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes by R. Allen Alexander, Jr. "Why Don't She Stay in Her Class?": Caste Structures in Lyle Saxon's Children of Strangers and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God by Suzanne Disheroon-Green Bibliography Index