Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
Eskridge newspaper
Eskridge Star. Untitled. July 13, 1899. "We are opposed to mob law: Our civilization is too far advanced for such business: We live too far north for that kind of...
Jackson, Mississippi images
Jackson, Mississippi: Speeding Car, Farish Street Just a few blocks west of the State Capitol is Farish Street, at the heart of what was once Jackson's main African American business...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...who would be my father. They married, something grew, a family and a business pumping as on the main highway. In photos I’ve seen my father brooding— a face stretched...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...of business, including ". . . the leg bone of the Indian chief who was hung in 1795 and left to dry, near the old mill here in town, and...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...a lot of prints of it for my brother and the business partner. To reshoot in 2021, it was difficult because I had to find someone with patience to go...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...city's master class, in the decades preceding the war, coalesced around a defense of black enslavement that touted white racial superiority and a belief in slavery's humanitarian benefits. A rising...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...to consider includes (but is not limited to): Spaces and Identities Intersectionality, hybridity, identity: race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, regional identity, and class Migration narratives, globalization, queer diaspora, and spaces of...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...of Fermor's classic.10Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Introduction," in The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands (New York: New York Review of Books, 1950, 2011), ix–x. The genealogical link is apparent....
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
Review Sensory history is an exciting new approach to writing history. It offers a fresh take on past perceptions. Sensing between the lines of written sources, the sensory historian recasts...