Category: the journey
+ comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, laurel falls camp, lillian e smith, martin luther king, jr, scott mccloud, the journey
Dissecting Pages from Lillian Smith Graphic Memoir
Last week, I shared the graphic memoir that I created alongside my students this semester. I detailed, in that post and the post where I described the project, my thought process for the narrative and what parts of Lillian Smith’s story I wanted to tell. As well, I walked through a three page sequence where I focused on Smith’s work as the director of … Read More Dissecting Pages from Lillian Smith Graphic Memoir
+ alien, comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, jason jones, laura jones, lillian e smith, memory, my life in movies, ridley scott, Sigourney Weaver, the journey
Memory in Laura Jones’ “My Life in Movies”
This semester, I am thoroughly enjoying teaching my Literature and Composition Graphic Memoirs class. There is so much to unpack, and we haven’t even gotten to the book-length memoirs yet. Recently, I had students read excerpts from Lillian Smith’s The Journey and a section of Laura Jones’ My Life in Movies. Today, I want to talk about the ways that these seemingly disparate texts, … Read More Memory in Laura Jones’ “My Life in Movies”
+ comics, george takei, graphic memoir, graphic novels, harmony becker, idw publishing, justin eisinger, lillian e smith, paul ricoeur, stephen scott, the journey, they called us enemy
“Memory is a wily keeper of the past”: The Narrative of Memory
Throughout our lives, we create memories, then we reconstruct those memories, and they appear again and again within our mind. For me, one memory that always pops up concerns a time when I was a kid, riding a four-wheeler at my grandfather’s camp. I sat down on the seat, my dad sitting behind me, and I pulled the throttle back with my right hand. … Read More “Memory is a wily keeper of the past”: The Narrative of Memory
+ american literature, georgia literature, how to be an antiracist, ibram x. kendi, Jennine Capó crucet, killers of the dream, lillian e smith, lillian smith: breaking the silence, my time among the whites, social justice, southern literature, the journey
Lillian E. Smith Studies Course
This semester, I am teaching the Lillian E. Smith Studies course for the first time. It is part of the LES Scholars’ program, and it is a course that focuses on Lillian Smith and social justice. The course looks historically at Smith and her work, but it also looks at the ways that her work and legacy resonate today. As such, I included works … Read More Lillian E. Smith Studies Course
+ a small place, american literature, antigua, caribbean literature, innocents abroad, jamaica kincaid, lillian e smith, Mark twain, southern history, southern literature, the journey
Why do we travel?
One of my favorite quotes comes from Mark Twain. Talking about what travel does to one’s worldview, he wrote in Innocents Abroad, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” … Read More Why do we travel?
