The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...can use the parameters of our database to translate a Faulkner story via an algorithm into a "forced directional graph," which is a map that both lists specific narrative elements...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...want to be in that number."14Edwin Bocage, as quoted in Various Artists, Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album (Nonesuch Records, 2005). Nick Spitzer, Eddie Bo, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. A...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...the United States (2012–2014). She directs the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. Many of her poems first appeared in various forms in Callaloo, a journal that for her serves...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...African American grave site decorative traditions, such as personal photographs, items of clothing, and other relics and items that provide the traveler or mourner with a direct link to the...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...space as possible across the hemisphere for bonded labor, whether under the United States' direct control or not. Slaveholders in the South and in Washington sought to make common cause...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
Review In Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City journalist and educator Natalie Hopkinson uses go-go—the ultra-local style of African American popular music that has dominated...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...a third book on the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Her first book argues that Native literary works are either implicitly theoretical or deal directly with theory....