I started Interminable Rambling in August 2015. On this site, I provide reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy. Interminable Rambling arose out of the blog I maintained for the Ernest J Gaines Center. There, I wrote about items in the center’s archives, Gaines’ works, and texts that related to Gaines and Louisiana. When I moved on from the center, I started Interminable Rambling as a way to maintain a writing schedule.
“And I wonder,” Angela Davis asked in a 2013 lecture at Birkbeck University in London, “will we ever truly recognize the collective subject of history that was itself produced by radical organizing?” The narratives we tell ourselves, the myths we construct, obscure the foundations and erase the stories of countless individuals and moments in history.…
Whenever I look I look at a list of the most important twentieth century American novels and novelists, the same names pop up again and again: William Faulkner, Harper Lee, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison. While each of these authors and their works are important, for various reasons, I do not…
In his “Author’s Note” to Pretend the Ball is Named Jim Crow, Dorian Hairston details why he wrote a collection of poems about Josh Gibson and how baseball, with its “arbitrary yet clearly defined unwritten rules” mirrors society at large, especially in relation to issues of race, class, and gender. These “rules” organize the game,…
As an academic, I have always enjoyed attending conferences because they provide a space to meet new people and to learn about new ideas and specifically about new literature. At the Appalachian Studies Association conference, I went to an Affrilachian poets panel featuring Amy Alvarez, Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Dorian Hairston, and Frank X. Walker.…
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