Genres of Southern Literature
...Heilman's essay, entitled "The Southern Temper," a seminal exercise in genre making (it was first published in 1952 in Louis Rubin and Robert Jacobs, Southern Renascence, and was reprinted in 1961 in Rubin...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...her college-bound daughters. She discovered her artistic voice in the fiber arts, swiftly mastering quilting and surface design techniques through which she powerfully expressed herself and engaged an audience. ...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
..."unritual"—with a new sense of the sacred that allows for remembrance and re-humanization. Rituals—be they initiations, funerary rites, or collective acts of remembrance—confer "humanity" on those who practice them and...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...began sorting through the rubble, rumors arose that a drunken gay patron named Roger Dale Nunez had initiated a fight, been kicked out of the bar, and threatened on his...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005). Agricultural biodiversity refers to human-modified components of biodiversity that contribute to the sustenance and health of human populations.8Shand, Human...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...depicts Appalachia as a wild and rural refuge from urban and suburban development. But this first Frazer photograph disrupts its own image of Appalachia as simple, rural refuge by including...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...understood about enslaved women. They reflect an important part of what it means to be human. That humanity is not new though it has been newly allowed to speak. Front...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
Essay Map of global ecoregions. Courtesy of World Wildlife Fund. Environmental history emphasizes the role of humans as an integral part of their natural surroundings. Ecological systems and biological diversity,...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...1940s, Gainey grew up poor and gay in rural South Carolina and attended Clemson University, where he studied ornamental horticulture. Using vernacular plants in classical garden design, he became a...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...sometimes draw between human and animal worlds. Central to the concept of coexistence is modifying the behavior of both human and animal, requiring an ongoing effort to sustain a dialogue-of-sorts...