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.
Recently, I took a trip to Lyon, at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers, for a few days away from Paris. While there, I went to the Basilique of Notre Dame of Fourvière, where I saw two bas-reliefs of Cain murdering Abel and Cain’s expulsion. I found these interesting, of course, because I…
A couple of years ago, I picked up Leonora Carrington’s Down Below, a memoir she details a psychotic break that she had, in 1940, as the invading Germany army took her partner, Max Ernst, to a concentration camp and she tried to flee across the Pyrenees into Spain. The memoir introduced me to Carrington, whom…
When my daughter and I were working on Classics and Coffee, we each chose books to discuss. She chose one of her favorite novels at the time, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre for one of the early episodes. After reading the novel, I came across Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, a postcolonial novel focusing on Edward…
Since I am in Paris for this semester, I am doing a couple of asynchronous courses online. One of those is my “Who is the Black Panther?” course for a literature and composition course. The other is a rhetoric and composition course, the first in the writing sequence. For that course, I am framing it,…
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