Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...some pot if you consider that a foible, he comes home late at least once which possibly makes his mom cry, he sometimes fails to do his homework—but no real...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
Introduction James V. Catano Lush wilderness in a remote bayou and the exploratory genius of oil drilling technology; traditional ways of living and the intrusions of modern life; natural wealth...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
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...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...the murder, funeral, trial, and their aftermath. More precisely, Mace argues that there were significant differences in how print media covered the events based on section of the country—Midwest, Northeast,...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...Manganiello demonstrates, politically and economically powerful men pursued a vision of a modern, capitalist South predicated on developing rivers to produce cheap energy and promote economic growth well before TVA's...
The Border South
...we quickly discover that the South was not closed but permeable, not sealed airtight but punctured with openings. The region included Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, in the east and stretched...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...white working class—coded as male industrial workers. For months before and after the 2016 election, journalists reported on various Trump Countries, as they were dubbed—Appalachian communities supposedly serving as ground...