Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...and crafts movement and other pottery-based art forms, see Susan Donaldson's "Cracked Urns: Faulkner, Gender, and Art in the South," in Faulkner and the Artist: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1993 (Jackson:...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...them down, even going on a stake-out in New Orleans.20Sibley, Turned Funny, 258. The children had gone to live with Cricket's parents in Indiana and neither Mary nor Celestine saw them...
"Aint that Something?"
Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...for Zelia, colonial laws dictated that the slave must be blamed and executed for her master's injury.4Commenting on the Black Code and the kinds of punishment inflicted on slaves for...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...hazards to the public health and environment."87Ibid., xii. Plyler certainly would have agreed with the characterization that DDT poisoned people in their own homes and that government sanctioned the practice...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...2009). Writing in 2006, New York Times contributor Kelefa Sanneh argued that the snubbing of New Orleans rap appeared exceptional, particularly in light of the fact that rap as a...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...wonderful legends in repudiation. And then the Southerner seems a fetid frog capable only of ejecting the brown sputum of snuff or tobacco into the deep sand of the twisting...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...with Dr. Henry Norton Torrey and Nell Ford Torrey, and ending with their daughter, Eleanor Torrey ("Sandy") West. The Torreys oversaw the building of a large home for themselves, as...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...