Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...minority in India, in the mouths of political agitators, and on city walls, especially since the 1980s. "Those who wish to live in Hindustan will have to live like us...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...evidence of the continuing existence of places away from the big place where, increasingly, we all live." And the reviewer for The North American Review remarked that Gautreaux "knows how...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...horse appear so lively. The narrator recalls in horror: The removal of the blanket disclosed a sore on Bullet's back-bone that seemed to have defied all medical skill. It measured...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...crop in the inhospitable soil of the Midwest. "A negro rapist has been. . . burned at the stake, chained, kerosened and burned alive, in strict accordance with the method...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...the place where you live, and then to make choices to enhance that place. But bioregionalism was not merely a set of ideas in Port Townsend. It was manifested in...
The Liminal Site
...vertical feet down from the ridgeline and about 250 feet above downtown.1We now live in North Vancouver, British Columbia, but—since we moved during the Great Recession—we were unable to sell...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...season one, Rust and Marty uncover strange genealogies and rigged systems, sometimes reluctantly and always at great cost to their lives and security. They commit awful violence against people, such...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...that the majority of the students in that seminar were from Europe. In reading and reflecting about their questions, I re-lived my experience as a graduate student at the University...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...in Anniston since the 1930s, and growing up, Mims and her family—mother, father, and twelve siblings—lived right near the plant. Her parents farmed land near a drainage ditch that carried...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
Introduction During the antebellum era, New Orleans became the second largest port of US immigration after New York City, leading hundreds of thousands of Germans to begin new lives at...