Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...currents of American literary history. He also makes local color available to our current critical moment, with its keen interest in transnationalism, global networks, and critical regional studies. In order...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...or Black faces. Bey’s most recent work allows us to recontextualize nature photography by eschewing the innocence of the pastoral scene in order to understand how the bodies of the...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...see Timothy Morton, "Blood Sugar," in Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire 1730–1830, ed. Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 87–106. Also consult anthropologist...