Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...2011 by The University of Georgia Press. Other recent poetry and prose books include The Dead Father Poems (Horse & Buggy Press, 1999), The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph (Hub...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Back was an effort to demonstrate that the image of the cannibal was projected onto Amerindians or Africans to dehumanize them.16Valérie Loichot,The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...LGBTQ community study, with its emphasis on space and place, that George Chauncey, Nan Alamilla Boyd, John Howard, among so many others, have set forth. This barely scratches the surface,...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...and her boyfriend/pimp Rosnay as they encounter the reality of selling their bodies in the effort to get out or escape, in this case, to the state of Nevada, where...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...often "the prelude to creative effort."3Zora Neale Hurston to Carita Dogget Corse, December 3, 1938, in Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (New York: Anchor, 2003), 417–418. By summer...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...adding their own experiences in treating blacks. This is all familiar material that Weiner uses to develop her own narrative. Nott devoted a great deal of effort to advocating polygenesis...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). Chroniclers of the black freedom struggle have long sought to dispel the collective memory that undergirds what local state officials...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of the enslaved. Another screen drops to ground level, cutting back and forth between close ups of the lush green grass and sharp stalks of sugarcane leaves piercing from the dirt...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...has brought a reduction or loss of numerous species, and that fire—both natural and "managed"—is essential. Some features of the book are irritating. The text breaks on page forty-three for...