Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. From Dorothy Moye's Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition. 400-600 word proposals should include: a description of the major ideas, arguments, and sources for the...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
Review To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 If you don't believe me,...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Whiskey and Geography
...de Chastelleaux observed that it was the only drink served in the American backcountry.1David Hackett-Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 729. In...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
His sword dripped blood. His helmet gleamed. He dragged a Gorgon's head behind him. As first dates go, this was problematic. He itched and fidgeted. He said Could I save...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...The shape of Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page's installation mirrors that of the gallery in order to comment on how culture — rituals, codes, manners, and customs — is...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...of Poems Read Another Failed Poem About the Greeks His sword dripped blood. His helmet gleamed. He dragged a Gorgon's head behind him. As first dates go, this was problematic....
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...dead of night, the trains—carrying troops, carrying weapons, carrying perhaps the stuff of a once ordinary life—rolled by, measuring the fitful sleep of the 17,000 at Jerome and Rohwer. The...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...in a chapter on "Fiction Writing and Social Change." Gray understands the irony of the word "aberration," its message that the canonized "southern" writing has not taken this path into...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In particular, he examines Anglo attacks against Mexicans in the...