Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...some of the numerous ways Confederate writers meditated on the distinct and not-so-distinct nature of their slaveholding nation and articulated their great expectations about what that nation and its literature...
The Border South
...geopolitics of the sectional crisis. In the eighteenth century the South's borders were not a subject of either concern or observation, and identities were shaped more around states than regions....
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...or the narrator's."8Ibid., 57. O'Connor thus works to exact from her characters — many of whom can be considered victims of a crippling secular egoism — a heightened spiritual awareness....
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...Callaloo Conference, our seventh annual gathering, which focuses on "Making Art: Writing, Authorship, and Critique," a subject that seldom, if ever, receives significant headliner attention at academic conferences today. For...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...contact with their Benson and Snoddy relatives living in the area, and they probably pieced quilts, embroidered, crocheted, or knitted while visiting family and friends. Construction: Unlike the other family...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...disease. Weiner examines physicians' beliefs that climate and environment were imagined to influence southern bodies in ways that made them react differently to disease than northern bodies. The Deep South...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...racist constructions validated exclusionary actions, such as the demonization of the Chinese that rationalized the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Fevered Measures ends with the declaration that "Mexicans, Mexican immigrants, and...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...