Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
Review I adored Beasts of the Southern Wild and have seen it three times: each viewing a quick incursion into the southern surreal. Benh Zeitlin's movie has received a nomination...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the South, while southern Ohioans and Indianans exhibited a more virulent form of racism than did their fellow Midwesterners or other northerners. Salafia argues that the latter part of that...
Ashé: Cultural Arts Cornerstone in New Orleans’ Central City
...The two transformed this raw space into the Ashé Cultural Arts Center to promote, celebrate, and produce works by and about the African and African American experience. Ashé Cultural Arts...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...workers, a voice fairly new to southern literature, offered by other writers of Gautreaux's generation (such as Mississippi's Larry Brown and South Carolina's Dorothy Allison), countering or deconstructing poor white...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
Review "Lynching of Negroes is growing to be a southern pastime," declared the Reverend D. A. Graham of the A.M.E. church in a sermon preached in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...we studied are trying to figure out how to attract financial support around public presentation of their complex histories while remaining truthful to them. South Africa Our time in South...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...counter the negative view of the South that Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) popularized with such amazing force. Even before her novel appeared serially, southern novels set on...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...Hardwick decision, remains obliquely in that bed. Detail from Felix Gonzalez-Torres' Untitled, Seoul, South Korea, 1991. Courtesy of Flickr user Paul Keller. Creative Commons license CC by 2.0. Your blood...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Haunted South," The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies, eds. Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017), 238–62. Seven Cherokee chief delegates accompanying Sir...
Good-Bye to All That?
...September 2013 Dan T. Carter wrote for Southern Spaces about the tumult in North Carolina government. It is a pattern repeated across the South. In the aftermath of the 1968...