{"title":"A Visual Dispatch: Images, Art, and the Archive as a Portal to Memory","authors":"Colony Little","doi":"10.1353/scu.2024.a934716","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay explores the relationship between memory and images, using art as a surrogate for our personal archive. It is based on the discovery of an old family photo album that provided missing links to an ancestral history originating in the South. The author examines the many ways we construct our identities and reclaim our sense of self by connecting to the past and breaking the silences that surround pain and trauma. These examinations were facilitated by the visual archive, creating space for healing. By merging an imagined history constructed through visual art with these newly found images, the piece charts a path of wayfinding through a physical journey to Texas that became a spiritual catalyst for the exploration of self.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2024.a934716","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay explores the relationship between memory and images, using art as a surrogate for our personal archive. It is based on the discovery of an old family photo album that provided missing links to an ancestral history originating in the South. The author examines the many ways we construct our identities and reclaim our sense of self by connecting to the past and breaking the silences that surround pain and trauma. These examinations were facilitated by the visual archive, creating space for healing. By merging an imagined history constructed through visual art with these newly found images, the piece charts a path of wayfinding through a physical journey to Texas that became a spiritual catalyst for the exploration of self.
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In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.
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