Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...heavily scripted pieces, this video also provides the most autobiographical representation of what Louisiana "means" to its videographers. It also makes use of interviews and common cultural objects or motifs...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...previously "undeveloped" countryside. The latter turn out to be exceptional turncoats in an otherwise "loyal" and tight-knit rural community. Merthiolate-Colored Flags Sibley's locating Sweet Apple within the pastoral was as...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...century to its crises of identity during the latter half of the century. He argues that southern gospel's cultural function, if not all of its professional and commercial infrastructure, developed...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...refused to air any national programming that dealt with racial matters. National and local news programs often strove, nevertheless, for fairness but southern politicians worried about the visual power of...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...free man of mixed race . . . official painter of maps and perpetual lunar calendars." Courtesy of Arquivo Nacional Torre de Tombo, Lisbonk Portugal. Image provided by the author....
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...movements of hunting and gathering and the foundational acts of ancestors and divinities. All ritual practice may be conceived of as a kind of reenactment, recreating prior ritual action as...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...them the autobiographical novel that the beginning writer often writes? GAUTREAUX: No, no interest whatsoever in ever doing anything autobiographical. There are more interesting stories to tell. The last book...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...toward new vistas of thought, particularly Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors (1990). In the strictest sense more a work of autobiography, Interior Landscapes, nonetheless, remains an exciting critical study...
The Place of Appalachia
...epitomized in financial trading, multinational jumble of languages and cultural symbols, or cosmopolitan placelessness described and theorized by observers of global cities.4Saskia Sassen, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo...
Besieged Terrain
...the Robinson Forest they can reverse the history of destruction. That once people experience the forest, they will develop an ethical commitment to its survival, following Aldo Leopold's land ethic:...