Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...original, periodical contexts, and to great effect. Indeed, Hardwig's recovery work yields some stunning insights, not least of which are an alternative literary history of the South—or, better, an alternative...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...arranged graphically so as to offer insights into complicated phenomena that are both richer and more comprehensible than what could be gained through the presentation of facts in isolation. For...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...interviews with people who knew Johnson and James, Wenders mixes authentic, non-music archival clips alongside the reenactments, further blurring history and simulation.4Despite the technical similarity between the authentic footage and...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...statement is more true than the first, noting that "one of the most stunning anomalies was the similarity between the work regime of racial slavery and that of wage labor...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...research, writing, and creativity established by Appalachian Studies. Those in the field need not worry that their hard-won insights will be lost or not attended to, because the next generation...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...methods. I had a similar experience a few years ago when thinking about some of this very same material, but in terms of space and place as part of a...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...cityscape.10I am grateful to my friend and colleague, Professor Naïma Hachad, who helped me brainstorm during and after the exhibit and enriched this piece with her insights. We ran towards...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...sky, "Well, once there was just dark. You ask me, the light's winning."19Cary Joji Fukunaga, "Form and Void," True Detective (HBO, March 9, 2014), Episode 8. ) as a cheap,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Epps. Viewers numbed by years of cheap thrills need a film like this to remind them that horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...would also allow for the cheaper transportation of fossil fuels, Spears argues that the NO DAPL protests were a great example of "an intersectional grassroots movement linking indigenous rights, climate...