Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...one without respectable precedent."3Barbara J. Fields, "Commentary on Jack Temple Kirby's paper 'Bioregionalism: Landscape and culture in the South Atlantic,'" in The New Regionalism: Essays and Commentaries, ed. Robert L....
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Franklin's cooperative at Hillhouse; the passing of paternalistic aristocrats such as Percy; the rising fear and antagonism between elites and poor whites; the preference of many white southerners to escape...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...landscape. Vehicles lay atop and beneath wandering houses. Refrigerators hung suspended on power lines. Random items were strewn and abandoned before ruined houses. There were grim and hopeful animal rescue...
Religion and the US South
...landscape of places where many people were passionate and open about their faith. By Faulkner's time, evangelical Protestantism had already long dominated the South as a whole, and this proselytizing...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...the white family tree of Oxford, she is situated, albeit in a transitional and subordinate position, within the heavenly landscape of the white cemetery. Incorporated into the Eternal as a...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
Besieged Terrain
...Tennessee part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Mount Mitchell in western North Carolina rise more than 6,500 feet. This landscape is what the public usually identifies as...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...decade: Mann’s recent photographs of her husband, cave images from Whetstone’s recent series Post Pleistocene, and landscape pictures from Pamela Pecchio’s series On Longing, Distance, and Heavy Metal. Anyone familiar...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...Courtesy of Philip Barnard, translated 1995. Section I The first rays of dawn were just beginning to light the black mountaintops when I left the Cape for Saint-Marc, a small...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...shower cap walks down a road. She is centered and small. The landscape around her—the flat farmland, the big sky, the tin-roofed shack, and the two-lane highway—marks the place as...