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+ Ayize Jama Everett, bitter root, black panther, box of bones, chuck brown, comics, Daniel Stein, david f walker, hugo Martínez, image comics, John Jennings, marvel comics, rebecca hall, sanford green, wake

Reading Daniel Stein’s “Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots”

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From the moment I heard about Daniel Stein’s recent book, Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary Graphic Narrative, I knew I wanted to read it, specifically because Stein examines numerous texts that I have used or plan to use in my courses. Stein offers a lot over the course of Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots, moving from an exploration of graphic … Read More Reading Daniel Stein’s “Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots”

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“What It Took for Me to Stop Hiding My Politics in the South”: An Interview with the Founder of Y’all Ain’t Right

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Over the past six months, my wife, Melissa, has been working on Y’all Ain’t Right, an umbrella site featuring our podcast, This Ain’t It, a blog, and products filled with Southern “sass, smarts, and social consciousness.” This project originated as her way to use her talents to voice her opposition to the atrocities we see enacted around us on a daily basis. It also arose … Read More “What It Took for Me to Stop Hiding My Politics in the South”: An Interview with the Founder of Y’all Ain’t Right

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“What is an American?”: Early American Literature Course Syllabus

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It has been a few years since I have taught an American literature course from colonialism to 1865. This semester, I am doing just that, and I am again thinking about the ways that I structure this course. I have always organized this course, and others, around conversations, taking Kenneth Burke’s “parlor metaphor” to heart that conversations continue onwards, ceaselessly, even when participants leave. … Read More “What is an American?”: Early American Literature Course Syllabus

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+ a late encounter with the enemy, civil war, flannery o'connor, history, lost cause, southern gothic, southern history, southern literature

The Death of the Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter With the Enemy”

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Last post, I looked at the ways that Flannery O’Connor confronts the Lost Cause Narrative in “A Late Encounter With the Enemy.” Today, I want to expand upon that discussion some by looking, specifically, at the end of the story when we see Sally and George at her college graduation. In this scene, which takes up the latter quarter of the story, George sits … Read More The Death of the Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter With the Enemy”

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The Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”

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When I started thinking about my American literary survey course this semester, I knew I wanted to have a story by Flannery O’Connor, partly because I teach in Georgia but also because I wanted to students to see her and other Southern writers in conversation with one another. I thought about doing “A Good Man is Hard to Find” or “Revelation,”but I chose a different story. … Read More The Lost Cause in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Late Encounter with the Enemy”

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