Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...narrative and the slave novel.6Woodward, "Why the Southern Renaissance?," 222–239. These ghosts, along with the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, precursed and begat what we now think of as southern...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...for human habitation. Those questions about his longtime hometown hurt, he admits, but he decided to respond to them constructively. He would explore why New Orleans had been built in...
Scarecrow
...cling to your journey — A long walk on yellow brick, two taps From a wizard's wand. I like to think Of these cornrows as a kind of maze, Imagine...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...a bohemian love for the margins, and Cartier-Bresson's compositional techniques to contemporary versions of Evans's subject matter. The Met's show is part of a more than decade-long celebration of this...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...Calhoun on Saturday, May 5 to participate in a Sacred Harp singing held in conjunction with the traveling exhibition. The event attracted a group of perhaps a dozen long-time white...
The Cobb County Braves
...the Braves have long expressed dissatisfaction with Turner Field. As Maria Saporta wrote in the Saporta Report, an absence of neighborhood development, limited parking facilities, and the fact that the...
Aftermath
I think by now it is time for the second cutting. I imagine the field, the one above the last house we rented, has lain in convalescence long enough. The...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
I've come here to take a photograph of Flannery O'Connor's grave. With me are mockingbirds, robins, and cardinals, nervous, never lighting long, flitting from headstone to bough to picket. I...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...South has long been a thriving locus of American Indian thinking and writing. I hope to supplement but also expand the field of Native Studies, which did not exist in...