Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Ozarks. The store is the modern-day equivalent of the old-timey gristmill, a place of congregation for anyone with a minute to spare. I began the Arkansas component of a long-term...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...53. Front cover of Crowning Day (Dayton, VA: Ruebush-Kieffer, 1900). Courtesy of Douglas Harrison. At the end of the nineteenth century and into the first three decades of the twentieth...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...of their slaves were valuable to them for their present ability to labor; but much the greater number of them were an absolute burden but very valuable on account of...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...on the day-to-day lives of the Lovings" and "make a really slow, quiet film."2Joe Robberson, "Director Jeff Nichols talks 'Loving,' His relationship With the South & His Muse, Michael Shannon,"...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...being transferred to Milledgeville State Prison. Laboring and living in horrific conditions, Cobb submitted three clemency requests between 1907 and 1910. Suffering from a variety of maladies, including a large...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...broad range of southern labor themes, including panels related to slavery and unfree labor; prisons and labor; oil, fishing, and the Gulf Coast; work and disaster capitalism; tourism and the...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Harp singing features day- or weekend-long gatherings, where participants sing without an audience from a songbook called The Sacred Harp. The convention in Cork drew a crowd unprecedented among European...
Genres of Southern Literature
...the last half-century, although critics have disagreed vigorously over where to look for the distinguishing conventions that allow the assignment of genre identification to texts. In today's critical climate we...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...D. Moore (CC BY-SA 3.0). Photograph of the Arnold Bakery from Wikimedia Commons. Pragmatically, producing urban space depends on the deployment of capital and labor. But city building also requires...