Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...peoples, in such projects as the collection she co-edited with Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South...
A Mess of Poke
...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...and Jesse, a French woman and American man (played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke), who meet on a train and spend one night wandering around Vienna flirting and talking...
Local Color
...often used dialect to achieve less patronizing, more flexible versions of life in community. African American men and women also wrote about a racialized social politics (Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Paul...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...– either the British or the American North, but he is thinking about internal rebellion, including foremost the threat of justifiable slave rebellion, as a perhaps foreordained "revolution of the...
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...for them, and their ensnarement, if successful, is followed by an emancipatory revelation. As Claire Katz observes, "O'Connor as narrator plays the role of scourge."5Katz, Claire. "O'Connor's Rage of Vision." American...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...a frequent guest blogger on The Best American Poetry, and one of his poems, "The Truth About the Present," was recently featured on The Academy of American Poets' Poets.org site....
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...of expression and suggests that small businesses continue to function as cultural landmarks at the center of neighborhood geography, despite the encroachments of corporate chains and developer-planned communities. Owners often...