{"title":"Several Places at Once","authors":"M. Lowery","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0022","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:\"Several Places at Once\" explores the meaning of \"inheritance,\" beyond its capitalist definition of things, items, and property, to include names, traits, and qualities. While the law thinks of inheritance as individualized, it can also be collective, which means descendants face obstacles created by the stereotypes, myths, and assumptions imposed on them. The pursuit of individual liberty has weakened social bonds and allowed one race to exploit others. Shared experiences provide resources that can be transmitted across generations. By exploring the possibilities of the American and African Indigenous community and identity in the past and present, these groups can enhance their inherited traits of resilience and problem-solving. An honest reckoning with their entire inheritance forces communities to confront ambiguity, uncertainty, and their attendant pressures, and is necessary to overturn the meta-narratives about Black and Indigenous disappearance, invisibility, marginality, and death.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","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.2022.0022","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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Abstract:"Several Places at Once" explores the meaning of "inheritance," beyond its capitalist definition of things, items, and property, to include names, traits, and qualities. While the law thinks of inheritance as individualized, it can also be collective, which means descendants face obstacles created by the stereotypes, myths, and assumptions imposed on them. The pursuit of individual liberty has weakened social bonds and allowed one race to exploit others. Shared experiences provide resources that can be transmitted across generations. By exploring the possibilities of the American and African Indigenous community and identity in the past and present, these groups can enhance their inherited traits of resilience and problem-solving. An honest reckoning with their entire inheritance forces communities to confront ambiguity, uncertainty, and their attendant pressures, and is necessary to overturn the meta-narratives about Black and Indigenous disappearance, invisibility, marginality, and death.
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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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