On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). As Indian removal gets underway in the early 1830s, captivity narratives situated...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...how antebellum southern physicians—white males all—used information about their patients to advance their own professional and sectional political agendas.1Sadly, Professor Weiner died before the book was completed. Mazie Hough, assistant...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...a captured copy of the 1915 Plan de San Diego revealed Carranza adherents' intent to use a series of violent uprisings to regain territory in the old Spanish Southwest (Texas,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...your true motivations and priorities." Americans face an uncomfortable truth, she noted. History demanded "self-revelation" about the stories we accept without questioning, about the narratives we use without thinking. She...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...research, writing, and creativity established by Appalachian Studies. Those in the field need not worry that their hard-won insights will be lost or not attended to, because the next generation...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...a trip around the time of the marriage. He reportedly purchased a magnolia tree seedling as a gift for his bride and planted it next to their house. A century...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Georgia. In his interesting but not entirely successful study of non-Native participants in the southeastern deerskin trade, Paulett uses the word "mapping" to convey their processes of coming to know...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Cause ideology to the formation of southern literature (à la the "Southern Renaissance"), Hardwig reminds readers that much local color literature takes place far away from the plantation, in places...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
..."the South" becomes "unmoored from its local or provincial connotations" and "finds its rightful place within transnational discourses" (82). Like others before him, Lowe uses an aquatic metaphor, "crosscurrents," in...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...theorization becomes most apparent where Dubcovsky vacillates between the historiographically loaded term—the “South”—and la tierra adentro. Dubcovsky devotes only a paragraph to explicating the decision to use "early South" to...