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...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...health and healing where there were small numbers of Black patients.11Fett, Working Cures. Gonaver warns us not to read Galt's attitude as any kind of emancipatory rhetoric, but as representing...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...affairs. The fiercely segregated First Baptist Church of Jackson counted several influential lieutenants of Jim Crow society among its active leadership and membership: segregationist Governor Ross Barnett taught Sunday School,...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...Interviews James Franco," The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 15, 2013, http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/james-franco-on-his-adaptation-of-faulkners-as-i-lay-dying. And this town isn't just Tinseltown. Indeed, Franco has been cutting a swath across the country from...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...and a screened front porch. An oak tree shelters the house from the late afternoon sun. The white iris is in bloom, as is the white wisteria. There is an...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...creative and innovative mapping of the country's "petrochemical culture." The book creates a new benchmark for representing eco-cultural history, outlining the impact of the nation's oil dependent economy on the...
Piedmont Blues
...reflects this, meshing traces of gospel, fiddle tunes, blues, country, and ragtime into its rolling, exhuberant sound." --Nick Spitzer Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley has significant links to the...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Robbie Ethridge, Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). Smithers makes a promising start when he grounds his study in two...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...hot spots are categorized by page number and the user can specify a range of pages that will restrict the map's details and move through the events of those pages....