Category: frank yerby

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“We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans”: Bossier Massacre Graphic Text

Whenever I have a course that focuses on comics or graphic narratives, I usually have students create their own graphic text. For this assignment, students have the choice of either doing a script or an actual, completed graphic text. They can work solo or together, use photos, and essentially approach the assignment in any way they want to approach it. This semester, I assigned this … Read More “We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans”: Bossier Massacre Graphic Text

Short Story Collection Syllabus

This semester, I am teaching four different courses, with four different preps. When thinking about these courses, I wanted to make sure that I had a firm grounding in the majority of the material to make it a little easier on myself when it came to class prep. So, for two of these courses I decided to construct the courses around texts and themes … Read More Short Story Collection Syllabus

What Have I done Recently?

I consistently produce content, on this blog and in other venues. However, I am not a strong self promoter, even when it comes to things such a the edited collection I did on Frank Yerby a couple of years ago. I did have the chance to speak about Yerby at the 2022 Revival: Lost Southern Voices event. It’s just not in my nature to … Read More What Have I done Recently?

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African American Writers in France Syllabus

As I was finishing up my graduate studies and mailing out countless applications in the hopes of attaining that needle in a haystack tenure track position, I would always think about the possibility of leading a study travel trip. This year, we planned a trip to Poland; however, due to various circumstances, the trip will not take place. However, that has not deterred my … Read More African American Writers in France Syllabus

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The Lies We Believe in Frank Yerby’s “Fairoaks”

A few weeks ago, I saw a review of Frank Yerby’s Floodtide (1950) on Twitter. At that point, I hadn’t read Floodtide, and this point, I still haven’t. For some reason, my brain misremembered the review and I started to read Yerby’s Fairoaks (1957), a novel centered on the life of Guy Falks. I didn’t realize my mistake until I started making a Twitter … Read More The Lies We Believe in Frank Yerby’s “Fairoaks”