On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...ways. And both elide captivity altogether (though these texts continue to be generically categorized as captivity narratives) opting instead to depict local Indians as gangs of all-consuming homicidal psychopaths who...
Remnants of Flannery
...to complete his so-called "glorified suicide trilogy"—which currently combines the films The Guard (2011) and Calvary (2014)—with a film that takes its title from O'Connor's story "The Lame Shall Enter...
Vestibule
...love. I don't just want to thank her for giving me the trump card — "house of worship" — I hold in every stupid party game that begins, "Where's the...
Rent
...us and spiders—seasonless—survived the broom to live in every corner, their egg sacs hung like soft, spun pearls. Every spring, the bedroom filled with termites flying, having come up from...
The Change
...the petals with our bare, calloused, hands and twisting downward, quick, hard, only one time, snapped them off. Before edgers and herbicides took what they call weeds, when we walked...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...pretty. The dirt smelled like cats. Nobody knew who the statues were. Where was Stonewall Jackson? We wanted Stonewall on his horse. The old cannons were puny. We asked about...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...red velvet wedding jackets, banjos, hand-carved walking canes, soccer jerseys, foreign-language newspapers, real estate brochures entreating “Come to Virginia!” The exhibit emphasizes the multiplicity of reasons immigrants came to Virginia...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...canon to fully appreciate the complexity of the time and the struggle. The combination of Berger's image selection and his carefully researched narrative does just that. Postcard featuring iconic images and...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...Changing America: Indivisible (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000); One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013);...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...a buoyant island of happy prostitutes. This detour from carbon catastrophe is beautiful; the screen dazzles with utopian lights that reiterate, in a vague and careless way, a wished-for matriarchy....