Remnants of Flannery
Flannery O'Connor's place in American literature is undisputed. A master of the short story, her The Complete Stories (1971) was voted the "favorite" of the sixty fiction winners of the...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...people and places that foregrounds photography’s jumbling of time. In very different ways, they hold the place or person—the subject—steady so time can float free. William Christenberry, Greensboro, Hale County,...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...a place "different from" the North. They were also addressing, in a surprisingly resistant way, conditions of upheaval within the South that bear some scrutiny. I will mention only one...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...of President Obama's administration, and even terrorist attacks. This episode highlights the panic such epidemics still provoke, and the resultant mischaracterizations of place, or nationality, as equivalent with culpability. John...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...depending on a government's interest or willingness to police or prohibit.2The best examination of this concept I've found is in Eric Monkkonen's history of police, which stands to this day...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
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...
And the Prize Goes to...
...asked many of the scholars on the syllabus to share their top five "tips" for best reading practices. The students also gathered hints from others who need to read quickly...