Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...turning point for writing about the violence inherent in the enforcement of racially delimited identities. The embodied conflict of Joe Christmas ignited political writers, often male, across the wavering and...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...Conference, as well as the 2009 Friends of Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the 2008 Maureen Egen Exchange Award from Poetry & Writers, and the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...C., a dentist and a drug addict, who was later murdered in this house with an axe blow to the head. Untitled (Sumner, Mississippi, Cassidy Bayou in background), 1971, printed...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
Review I came to Brett Gadsden's work with some doubts of how and why the state of Delaware merited its own local study, and with growing apprehension about the proliferation...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...who represents the district west of Anniston in which the site is located, pushed instead in 2006 for money for a Confederate memorial. Commissioner Henderson supported $58,000 for restoration of...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...realizes the deep-seated conflict between these two identities is Jerry Jeff Walker's 1973 performance of Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Up Against the Wall (Redneck Mother)"—about how a white, working-class honky-tonk patron...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...singers but had a scheduling conflict with the annual Sacred Harp singing in Calhoun and had never had an opportunity to attend. Over lunch I and a couple of other...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...plot conflict involving exaggerated, comic collisions of characters based on class and education, civilization vs. barbarity. His narrator is the southern aristocrat. When one of his folk characters swears, the...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Elegantly photographed in elite settings, Page's large portraits, printed on canvas to reflect painted portraits in the installation, depict contemporary Charlestonians with the names of planter families. Recalling the complex...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...conflict from the pre-colonial period to the twenty-first century. Possible topics include, but are not limited to Redistricting and voting patterns Effects of demographic shifts in urban, suburban, and rural...