... of Books , and elsewhere. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 James Weldon Johnson William Vander Weyde gesture electricity reenactment References Abel Elizabeth . 2012 . “Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography.” Qui Parle 20 , no. 2 : 35...

... southern African Americans are working to make “inclusion . . . the default value for all things southern” by changing the scripts of those cultural memories (5). Davis’s first case study is the rise of black southern performers in Civil War reenactments. These reenactors educate others about the important...

..., the foundational premise is that such present- and future-oriented social energy dissipated in the 1970s and was replaced with new modes and forms of historical engagement including a fetish for the past. Television programs like The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie and historical reenactments like...

... but badly broken it (165). Indeed, the mythology continues to inflict real damage. Britz and Nichols describe the rise of social clubs in Tombstone, one of them called “the Vigilantes,” dedicated to historical reenactments of shootouts and lynchings. They do not address a former Tombstone reenactor’s...

... boundaries” of our better forbears (8). New’s investigative procedures deliberately reenact “the Calvinist-Cartesian regime” (250) of her adopted materials, with a theological underpinning dating to Cotton Mather and an apocalyptic appetite dating to Michael Wigglesworth, and with Harriet Beecher Stowe...

..., and for a resurgence of rights discourse among left academics.” 9 On the racialization of individualism, see Sharon Holland ( 2008 ). 10 Saidiya Hartman ( 2007 , 133–35) performs a similar analysis of staged “slave portraits” reenacted by contemporary schoolchildren. 11 For a discussion...

... the distinction between reenact- ment and ‘‘mere repetition’’ in TheFridayBook: ‘‘The spiral reenacts the circle, but opens out—if you’re going in the right direction. The nautilus’s latest chamber echoes its predecessors, but does not merely 602 American Literature repeat them, and it is where the animal...

..., shooting him in the chest and fleeing the scene. The newspaper’s lyrical, visual reenactment—a gothic tableau replete with silhouettes and rats, burnt-­out lights, and falling curtains—­ conveys a small-­town, macabre Southern event to New York readers. Faithful to the story...

... by their desires. Their own cli- max in bed late at night in their dorm room constitutes a reenactment of the challenge they imagine was posed by Henry and Bon’s love, spoken by Bon to Henry (as by Shreve to Quentin in the retelling): —I cannot? [Bon asks.] —You shall not. —Who will stop me...

... Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits...

... Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits...

... Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits...

... Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits...

... Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits...

...” at commemorative sites (10): the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monu- ment Indian Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little...

... Bighorn Battlefield National Monu- ment Indian Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana...

...): the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monu- ment Indian Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural...

... hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits the tangled archives of Native American...

...; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits the tangled archives of Native American eyewitness testimony...