Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...idiosyncratically (improvisation). . . ." In general, the black gospel tradition "ameliorates suffering by absorbing individuals into a community of fellow strugglers." White southern gospel on the other hand "forms...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...is Franco's body, a man's body, big, fit, and good looking. It's a body many men would like to walk around in, but it keeps Darl grounded in a story...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...is nuanced and complicated. In the early twentieth century many, if not most, in forestry and land management regarded fire as an unmitigated enemy of forests. Famous anti-fire campaigns featured...
Remnants of Flannery
...Drago's story is based is startling in its simplicity—a solid background with a black-ink drawing in the foreground—and as such, Drago's story follows an age old plot: two friends go...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...is in careful looking. Sometimes I am not sure what I am looking for, so I am in a state of watchfulness. When I went to Andalusia in August, there...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...of dominant ideology forms an important bridge toward Stoll's larger purpose in Ramp Hollow, which is to defend the integrity of peasants and the viability of their agricultural practices—when not...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...information (documents, recordings of performances and interviews, photographs, films) in their archives that could be digitized and used for teaching and research. If it hopes to thrive in a digital...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...explained in his 1993 book The Well-Placed Weed from which our documentary takes its title. Gainey's gardens feature a fascinating give-and-take between the structured and the free-flowing. Looking into Ryan...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...Ways (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996), 10. Historians have long noted the significance of Duden's Missouri boosterism,57Robert Frizell, Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri (Columbia:...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...1935 to 747 in 1941. Nonetheless, the South continued to lead the nation in the number of stillbirths and maternity and infant death rates, as well as in the incidence...