Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...Geoffrey H. Hartman, "Romantic Poetry and the Genius Loci" in Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958–1970 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970), 311–36; Roberto M. Dainotto, Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...the threshold of citizenship" (16), being considered, for instance, as three-fifths of a person in the 1787 US Constitution (11). She links this disaggregation to the process of creolization, which,...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...in a particular field, like historical background so that, for instance, you can make sense of nineteenth-century language patterns. What I find interesting is that digital projects by necessity require...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...North, New York Times, September 3, 1864. Northern Civil War commanders made the capture of Confederate cities—specifically Atlanta and Richmond—and the crippling or destroying of the armies defending them, the major...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...regional writing outside of the context of its original publication and reception.1"Regional writing" is the received critical vocabulary for the literature Hardwig treats. See, for instance, Stephanie Foote's Regional Fictions:...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...W.W. Norton, 2022), 54. In this, Hartman eschews the “overdetermined reading of the sounds of slavery”6Hartman, Scenes of Subjection, 30. prescribed by twentieth century Black thinkers such as W. E....
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...we discuss it. Chamaco ([Kiddo], 2004 English translation by William Gregory) is the first installment of the trilogy. It was first published in Spanish from Ediciones Alarcos and then translated...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...on February 3, 2021 titled, "The Aids Angel: How Ruth Coker Burks Comforted Dying Gay Men." That same year, however, the Arkansas Times published a more critical piece by Austin...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Spirn, "Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice and City Planning and Design," Landscape Research 30, no. 3 (2005): 395–413; Ben Jonson, "On the Famous Voyage," in Complete Poetry, ed....
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...2017. Courtesy of OER Commons. Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Open Educational Resource (OER) is the name given by proponents of open access to educational material—including course content, assignments,...