Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Hannah Hopkins in Washington DC. The 1827 and 1830 District of Columbia city directories list him residing at 1st Street West, "near the tanyard." Charles Tiney, Sr. appears in the 1820...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...from the cave by Nahum Ward in 1816; pseudo-archeological narratives described long-lost civilizations of human or near-human races living deep underground; ghost stories and legends told of Indian spirits haunting...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...Programme. Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. As the variety of objects featured in Water Graves indicates, Loichot's relational methodology echoes and enacts principles of Édouard Glissant's notion of "Relation,"...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
Review Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism opens with an arresting photographic image: nineteenth-century local colorist Mary Noailles Murfree, author of In the Tennessee Mountains, a collection of purportedly "authentic" sketches, sits...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...first two lines of the story, Longstreet indicated that the sketch is a regional tale concerning the South, not the frontier: Shooting matches are probably nearly coeval with the colonization...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...offer services to tourists on the street—ranging from help finding the "best" nearby restaurant to sexual favors. Nearly all Cubans are underemployed, even though most are better educated and receive...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...in the world, the people in Central Appalachia, including those near my home in the southern West Virginia coalfields, are among the poorest people in the United States. Poverty rates...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...day together, lunching at a local café, walking the nearby boardwalk, and sitting down in her living room for a two-hour recorded interview. This essay combines information from that interview...