...Kelly McKisson Abstract This article focuses on figures of subsidence in Jesmyn Ward’s novels of Bois Sauvage. Subsidence not only describes an actual process of sinking land in the US Gulf Coast bioregion but also refigures how those who study climate change can understand and address its material...

... in which postplantation spaces in the US South are imbued with temporal slippages such that past and present meet through the built environment. Tracing the plantation’s environmental and infrastructural presence in the Gulf Coast and throughout the US South, this essay argues that the plantation’s...

... acidification of the world’s oceans, the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, another massive oil spill off the coast of Nigeria, and the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf Coast—in sharpening the sense of major crisis among the majority of our planet’s inhabitants...

...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Two hundred years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to limn the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase, demonstrating its seamlessness with the national body in direct travel to the West Coast, a different kind of travel narrative—one that demonstrated New...

...). In a chapter about poetic views of the Anthropocene, moreover, Hunter investigates the ways Natasha Trethewey and Spahr “manipulate the form of the prospect poem to investigate global ecological damage” (101). His examples include Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010...

... in American Indian Communities .” American Journal of Public Health 97 , no. 9 : 1595 – 1600 . Chakrabarty Dipesh . 2009 . “ The Climate of History: Four Theses .” Critical Inquiry 35 , no. 2 : 197 – 222 . Davis Thomas S. 2021 . “ ‘Far from the Gulf Coast, But Near it Too...

... of New Orleans as a port serving the Caribbean at the turn of the century, Afro-creole religious knowledge likely found continual lines of transmission in the Gulf South. The presence on the Gulf coast of people such as the Cuban Tata Gaitán, a key Lucumi babalawo (diviner) and Ochosi priest...

..., if found imprinted in that sand, no matter from what coast it has been born by the change and chances of tide or of tropic gulf-stream. An Irish immigrant from KansasCityofonegenerationoraPolishorSwedishminerornavvy from Milwaukee or from Saint Louis is surely less ‘‘American’’ than...

... in a Global World, ed. James L. Peacock, Harry L. Watson, and Carrie R. Matthews (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2005), 265. 9 Examining the cultural continuum of Caribbean rim cultures of which Gulf-coast states are an important part, John Lowe points out that South- ern...

... some mystical form of prescience. I am not suggesting we experienced a collective vision of a storm swirling off the southern coast becoming a life-threatening hurricane headed for the Gulf states. Nor am I suggesting we could have imagined Black people stranded on rooftops, crammed into the Superdome...

...Amy Clukey The last ten years have seen a reexamination of Margaret Mitchell’s depictions of Irish identity. While these readings tell us a great deal about how Mitchell depicts Irish immigration to the region, colonial history shows that the connections between Ireland and the American South go...

... lectures. This essay, however, considers the possible uses of the celebrity for the culture that both created and mistook him. Viewed in the light of Emerson's celebrity, misinterpretation of his lectures reveals his audiences' appreciation for intellectual accomplishment and their desire for the spiritual...

... Georgia slave-catchers before fleeing the East Coast himself. Once in California, Williams continued to intercede on the be- half of those slaves brought within the bounds of the free state, using the law on occasion to his advantage. “Be it known,” informs Williams...

...). As Maddox and others have demonstrated, this construction of the Indian past had, for some time, proven strategically useful for policy making. Innocent of history and thus without advanced culture, it was claimed, Native...

... dunge their grounds with it.” But more important than this use value was its value as “a commodity better than the golden mines of the Spanish Indies” (59). Just as the material bodies of the fish could “dunge” and fertilize New England’s fields, so would their monetary value catalyze New England’s...

..., 136. 33 In fact, Nast’s cartoon “The Comet of Chinese Labor” directly addresses the usefulness of the Chinese for breaking strikes (Harper’s Weekly, 13 June 1870); see www.csub.edu/~gsantos/cat15.html. This image depicts the first mass arrival of Chinese to the East Coast, which...

... that inform Ameri- can poetry during the 1950s and 1960s.4 If the inside is aligned in this discourse with conformity, the school, formalism, The New Poets of Eng­land and America (1957), and the East Coast, the outside is aligned with revolt, the gallery, café, or bookstore...

...Samaine Lockwood Abstract This article explores how queer feminisms of the first wave relied on white supremacism and US exceptionalism to contest medical discourses about neurasthenia and sexual inversion. In particular, the author analyzes theories of women’s health, physical mobility...

... strength and diversity of this movement toward free verse and apparent sponta- neity of composition. It serves as a fulcrum that propels us forward in literary history, toward the dominant poetic statements (confessional, experimental, openly political) and countercultural movements of the 1960s...

... by the historical justifications that expansionism was sub- ordinated to larger issues. During the 1840s, the infrequent denuncia- tions of the ‘‘principle’’ of expansion were used to support arguments against amalgamation (in the case of Mexico) and against the exten- sion of slavery.14 Yet expansion was often...