Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
[author_affiliation] Overview Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: The limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: The idea of Mississippi as America writ large: did the “Mississippi Plan” become the American way? Part 4: The role of the scapegoat metaphor of Mississippi as “innocent victim” in segregationist politics Part 5: How metaphors can function […]
Work
[author_affiliation] Overview Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Work You wake up knowing you’ll work.You don’t worry that circumstances will hurt your chances to choose your labor. It seemsyour choice […]
Rebuilding the “Land of Dreams”: Expressive Culture and New Orleans’ Authentic Future
[author_affiliation] Overview Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how New Orleans musicians have drawn on their experiences of living in a flood plain Part 4: Spitzer explores the cultural importance of the city’s […]
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
[author_affiliation] Overview Readings Fall Creek As though shedding an old skin,Fall Creek slips free from fall’s weight,clots of leaves blackening snags,back of pool where years agolocal lore claims clothes were shedby a man and woman wedless than a month, who let hoeand plow handle slip from hands,left rows half done, crossed dark wavesof bottomland […]
Shadows along the Waccamaw
[author_affiliation] Overview Readings Dan Albergotti reads “The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron.” Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem “The Boatloads.” Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem “Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity.” Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem “Vestibule.” Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem “Stones and Shadows.” Poem text. Interview […]
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
[author_affiliation] Overview Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy Part 3: Womack contrasts Posey’s stories of racial/ethnic interdependency with the contemporary reality in the Creek Confederacy Interested in submitting your work to Southern […]
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
[author_affiliation] Overview A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem “Gone With the Wind.” Jake Adam York reads the poem “At Cornwall Furnace.” Jake Adam York reads the poem “Bunk Richardson.” Jake Adam York reads the poem “Walt Whitman in Alabama.” Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: York discusses his relation to […]