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Abstract:This essay considers the archival research that Gloria Naylor conducted for her third novel, Mama Day (1988). Drawing on interviews that Naylor conducted and various maps she consulted, Sasha Ann Panaram argues that we can treat Naylor as a literary geographer of the Black South. Part meditation on Naylor’s anti-imperialistic cartographic practices in Mama Day and part meditation on what those cartographic practices make possible within the classroom when students make their own maps to account for their lives, this essay demonstrates how Panaram offers a powerful example of how to recast the perimeters and parameters of where and what matters. Ultimately, Panaram maintains that Naylor uses her words and images to teach her readers how to envision more just worlds.
摘要:本文考察了格洛丽亚·内勒为其第三部小说《妈妈日》(1988)所做的档案研究。萨沙·安·帕纳拉姆(Sasha Ann Panaram)根据内勒进行的采访和她查阅的各种地图，认为我们可以将内勒视为黑人南方的文学地理学家。这篇文章部分是对内勒在《妈妈日》中反帝国主义制图实践的思考，部分是对那些制图实践在课堂上让学生们制作自己的地图来解释他们的生活时可能发生的事情的思考，它展示了Panaram如何提供了一个强有力的例子，说明如何重新定义地点和重要事物的边界和参数。最后，帕纳拉姆坚持认为，内勒用她的文字和图像来教她的读者如何设想更公正的世界。
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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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