The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...finishing a book manuscript about literalism and silliness in literature, music, performance, and film from the 1980s to the present, entitled "Literally, Queerly: The Pleasures of Silly Objects and Identities."...
Writing Appalachia
...new ground by introducing authors who had been marginalized or ignored in the discourse of Appalachian literature. Furthermore, especially since the 1970s, that era of literary outpouring that some scholars...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...So why don't you kindly turn your dial up a little bit and stay around with us for the next hour, cause we’ve got Monroe, Big Red, Ol' Sidro L.C.,...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Atlanta, also primarily African American in terms of racial composition, is home to the federal penitentiary, "all around it poor, sad, neglected little houses with trash and garbage drifting over...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Gentrification from the Ground Up (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006). The literature on gentrification in Austin links the city's emphasis on environmental sustainability as a competitive advantage to externalities that...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Memphis and tenant farmers union, and Little Rock. Lucy, who has been going over maps almost as much as I have, figures that if the rest of the trip takes...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...and state law in 1924. Rather, they argue that until 1926, "very little . . . was done about the marihuana issue until the press seized upon it."6Bonnie and Whitebread,...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...role the affair played in the clash and ultimate split between the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the Congress of Industrial Organizations rather than the understandings and motivations of the...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...American South. His numerous essays and reviews appear in such journals as the Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, American Literature, Southern Studies, Studies in American Humor, American Quarterly,...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...poorest people? It happens because the economy here has revolved around the concentrated ownership of one resource—coal—for more than a hundred years. Denny Tyler, Native plants manage to survive on...