Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
Antietam
...button, a bullet, a tooth migrating to the surface. We searched around. On our way back to the bus a boy tripped me and I fell— skidding hard along the...
Geography
...of blackberry, the coins flattened on the tracks. We can’t help it— already, we’re leaning too hard toward metaphor: my father searching for the railroad switch. It was here, right...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...fingerpickers, lost in dark mud, two folkies found you in the singing vinyl and asked, "How do you do that with a guitar?" and searched maps of Mississippi for the...
"A DASTARDLY CRIME: A Negro Assaults' [sic] a Lady Near Ponce de Leon Springs."
...[sic] time they arrived there was quite a crowd gathered, and the woods and fields in the vicinity of Ponce de Leon were thoroughly searched, but no trace of the...
Substantiation
...shade the one eye. A cruiser eases through the streets, searchlight in doorways, the driver white, dressed like a cop but for the rope marks at his throat, the bullet...
Stones and Shadows
...you like to live in New York City?" I search for ways to interrupt, to shut him up. But when I look left, he has become just a voice in...
Darkly
...Kitchen's gone. I can cruise, can walk and search each pane of glass for that wave of heat, the echo that will fill the night fifty years gone when five...
Quilting Conversation
...NAMES Project Foundation. Michael Moon is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. In addition to LGBT studies and queer theory, Moon's research concerns modern literature,...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...