Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...have some applicability. I’m in favor of calling it whatever might best facilitate moving hybridity toward action. About the Participants Lisa Brooks is an assistant professor of history and literature...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...questions—what and where is the Great (circum)Caribbean?—and, more importantly, does it matter? "Hyphenating Waters": Calypso Magnolia and the circumCaribbean Lowe approaches these questions through a diligent analysis of books spanning...
New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural landscapes. The "wilderness" and...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...outside Yoknapatawpha) that appear in the novel. Clicking on any of the map's icons brings up additional information. Screenshot by Stephen Railton, 2014. Courtesy of Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. Part of...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...convincing poor whites that enslaving African Americans was in their best interests. Jennison surveys white Georgians' opinions on racial and class divisions to great effect, mining the 1852 and 1853...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Americas, its historical ties to French, Spanish, and British imperial projects, and its discourse of both cultural distinctiveness and interconnectedness, is an ideal subject for this approach. As an exercise...