An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...paintings, photographs, installations, and films, in a pervasive celebration of amateurism and primitivism, and in the crazy free form dancing that erupted wherever bands played. In Athens, child’s play worked...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...In a time when so many people happily treat every new music video, online commentary, Presidential tweet, and podcast like S-Town as a revolutionary event, McLemore resists any easy classification...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...March 1977, interview A-0313, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, available online in theDocumenting the American South Collection at http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0313/menu.html. For Daniels' awareness of...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...limited by the constraints of the book as a mode of presentation. Could a topic such as highway history be better executed in a media rich, online format? Especially with...
The Place of Appalachia
...book indicate otherwise. Interdependent and mutually defining economic, social, cultural, and political bonds between the urban and the rural become in many instances thicker and more complex with the accelerated...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...rented enslaved persons for labor. For instance, according to the Smithsonian Day Book, in which the Institution's financial expenditures were recorded, a payment was made on January 15, 1850 in...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...microfiche newspapers and a few Times-Picayune articles online, Vernon primarily referenced Clayton Delery-Edwards's 2014 book The Up Stairs Lounge Arson. Few other resources existed while Vernon was writing.7Clayton Delery-Edwards, The...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...from the relatively small southern and eastern communities of Tuskegee and Harlem. Such a play between similarity and difference provides the animating tension of the poem. For instance, Great-Uncle Paul's...
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,...