Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...is set and was filmed: language, imagery, music, and casting. It was shot on location in two Missouri Ozark counties, Taney and Christian. Taney County sits right on the Missouri-Arkansas...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...I began to investigate the possibility some seven years ago, I was surprised to learn that it was perfectly legal to have a coop in Decatur. So I approached my...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...for these times; how we might pursue an alternative imagination. What is needed, I think, is to uproot 'space' from that constellation of concepts in which it has so unquestioningly...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...took place at the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 1991. As fate would have it, I was in that course. A non-Indian graduate student in anthropology, Pam Innes,...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...it boomed, had an increasingly hard time presenting itself as a "single community" around which all residents could rally and with which all residents identified (121). Residents instead sought out...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...and even during the Great Depression in the 1930s, but Jean's interest in photography waned. Sometime in the early 1940s he sold his interest in the company to his brother...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Yet it is a mistake to treat southern gospel as wholly synonymous with white gospel. Nor is its cultural function exclusively or even primarily of scholarly interest for what it...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Cherokee sensibilities, tohi and osi, which embody notions of flow, equanimity, and power. An individual's actions always implicate him or her in the flow of the world, posing a constant...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...shed as the house appears in relative contrast — pleasant, somewhat imposing, and upright. It is larger than I had expected and inviting despite its desertion. A small sign indicates...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...the 2014 Callaloo Conference, we have invited distinguished intellectuals and artists to help us return to subjects that we, at our inaugural meeting in New Orleans in March 2008, partially...