Introduction: The rise of the boll weevil -- Homers of the cotton fields: William Faulkner and the blues in twentieth-century America -- Backwater rising, men sinking down: the great Mississippi flood in "Old man" and "High water everywhere" -- See my baby from the other side: the ghosts of lynching in "That evening sun" and "Last kind words blues" -- All my shrimps was dead and gone: male sexual dysfunction in sanctuary and "Dead shrimp blues" -- Lost lightning: self-reflexivity and southern nostalgia in The back door wolf and The reivers -- Conclusion: A long loop down into the Delta.
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