Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...himself), the study of Confederate literature illuminates "the still-shadowy relationship between literature and nationalism" by enabling scholars to explore a concentrated, intense effort of novelists, poets, and critics to write...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...conduct interviews as resources became available between 2003 and 2008. Before writing questions I would often revisit the MARBL archive to re-read the letters between Raymond and each interviewee. I...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...between the two men. Both Campbell and Marlette denied any connection between the real and imaginary characters under the black hat. In his writing and in public discourse, Campbell could...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...earned her B.A. in English with membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Omega sorority, married and gave birth to her first son. While completing her PhD in English Literature...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
"I'm tired of these categories." —Patricia Yaeger1Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930–1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), ix. In a recent New York Times opinion...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...'matrix of perception' through which one makes sense of the world and the seat or generator of one's dispositions, inclinations, and tastes" (7–8).1For an extended discussion of the relationship between...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...is barely decipherable, his stories are full of crude reference to whores and excrement, and his disdain for his betters is clearly his main objective. In the opening conversation of...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...of traditional knowledge, including handicrafts such as sweetgrass basket weaving, cultivation of unique agricultural species (e.g., Sapelo red peas), and Gullah-Geechee storytelling. Top, the UGAMI complex on Sapelo Island, Georgia,...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off." "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Maria Carter Syphax, ca. 1870. Bottom, Charles Syphax (1791–1869) and William B. Syphax, ca. 1865. Daguerreotypes by unknown creator. Courtesy of Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, ARHO 6408...