Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts & Letters.
… Callaloo was founded in 1976 by its current editor, Charles Henry Rowell, when he was teaching at Southern University (Baton Rouge). He originally described the fledgling periodical as a “Black South Journal,” whose function was to serve as a publication outlet for marginalized writers in the racially segregated US American South. Shortly after [...]
Posted at 3:28 pm on 12/20/2011 | leave a comment | Filed Under: journals | Tagged: African Diaspora, African-American writers, art, Callaloo conference, charles henry rowell, editor of CALLALOO, Harold Baquet, journals, photographer, photography, poets, scholars, southern journals | read on
Queer: An Excerpt.
… Let them be dead. Let them be dead then. For I have taken many deaths. My face was drawn in the uterus with the pointed edge of a protractor. One line drawn down the center of my face, down and away from the widow’s peak, to the flattened bridge of my nostrils—the waters of [...]
Posted at 9:36 pm on 12/18/2011 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Chapters., Excerpts., Fiction. | Tagged: cultural studies, olympia vernon, Sexuality; bullying; bully; physical abuse; racism; sexism; novel; novel excerpt; fiction; southern gothic; southern literature; new orleans; southern literature; african-american literature; cultural | read on
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