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.
Coming of age in the 1990s, I remember diving deep, and I mean deep, into Nirvana. Growing up fairly conservative in an evangelical environment, I didn’t really listen to any “secular” music at all expect maybe the blues nights on the local NPR station or adult contemporary stuff. I really did lead a sheltered existence…
Whenever I travel, I always visit local bookstores. Even if I don’t purchase a book, I do this because I want to see what books they have available and I also want to see what books I may add to my to be read pile. During our study travel trip to Belfast, I must have…
When preparing students for our trip to Belfast, I told them to pay close attention to the murals, graffiti, stickers, and the language that they would encounter during our walks through the cities. Specifically, I told them to pay particular attention to the ways that republicans present solidarity with global struggles around the world, specifically…
Throughout Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses, language plays an important role in the ways that it defines individuals and creates divisions even where similarities exist. During a session with Michel Agnew and his friends, Cushla teaches them Irish. One of Michael’s friends, Victor, goads Cushla into teaching him the Irish words that would denigrate her as a Catholic,…
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