Mississippi Delta
...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...City in the late Twenties, were more anecdotal reinvention than anything else. It is impossible to read them without concluding that Saxon had spent an idyllic childhood on this or...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...once."24Ibid., 73. The "iterable structure" of the frame—the fact that "the frame breaks with itself to reproduce itself"—gives rise to an inherent instability in this interpretive moment.25Ibid., 24. In one...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I don’t think I avoid sexuality anymore perhaps like I did when I was younger in my work. I certainly don’t do it personally! But within the work, I was...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...extensive and informative chapters. Cholera, in contrast, receives no such spotlight, since it “did not arrive in the region until very late in the story, in the 1830s, and did...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Indiana, where he died, reported this as a consequence of his suffering in Spartanburg.4The jail time in Spartanburg is linked to Barrett's death in his obituary as reported in New...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007). It is salutary to occasionally violate these framing devices—their utility notwithstanding—in the interest...
Palomares Bajo
...[Palomares] rather than to it."12Méndez, "Palomares contamination." Szulc, 14, 153. Secrecy around Palomares medical records is confirmed in Arjun Makhijani and Stephen I. Schwartz, "Victims of the Bomb," in Schwartz,...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...his 1852 visit that "Mammoth Cave is as large as a county, but having another county on top of it, it is not represented, I believe, in the Kentucky Legislature....
"Aint that Something?"
...Gipe captures its looming presence in an illustration of the word in all capital letters; Dawn says, "It was the first time I ever heard the word." (302). Prescription pill...