Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...the National Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC, in Spanish) for Los siete contra Tebas in 1968, but that institution published the book with a note that accused the writer...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...to 2003. Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, I moved to Arkansas in 2003, where I taught high school for two years in the Mississippi Delta, the eastern part of the state....
Local Color
...that local color writing first articulated for American audiences. From William Faulkner in the Delta to Flannery O'Connor in middle Georgia to Lee Smith in the Appalachians, the South's best...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...The big machine passed, as usual, through the dewy Delta cottonfields' pre-dawn haze, continuing on its course without stopping. Meanwhile, the fugitive had laid down on his stomach, perpendicular to...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...published work in the field of environmental studies include: Mikko Saikku, Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Shirley Stewart Burns, Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia Peter West, Trying...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...technologies can facilitate and extend humanistic inquiry and analysis. The HyperCities companion book allows its authors to choreograph a series of arguments contextualizing the maps published on the HyperCities website....
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...half of the twentieth century, referred to his family's "long service" to Emory.9The 1943 Emory-at-Oxford College yearbook was dedicated to Henry "Billy" Mitchell. At his 1958 funeral, he was eulogized...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...