Session Information
Description: This working group seeks to recover the Southern matriarch by exploring her contributions to Southern culture across three centuries in historical documents, the neoslave narrative, Great Migration narratives, and post-Katrina novels. Our goal is to show how race, gender, sexuality, and disability contribute to our understandings of Southern matriarchs and thus spark a new set of scholarly conversations on motherhood.
For the other meeting of the working group, see 184.
Related Material: For related material, write to ajh@berkeley.edu after 19 Dec.
Participants
Alvin Henry, St. Lawrence U
Sidney Jones, Ohio State U, Columbus
Michelle-Taylor Sherwin, U of Georgia
Ashley Burge, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Alexi Garrett, U of Virginia
Hannah Saltmarsh, independent scholar
Presider
Alvin Henry, St. Lawrence U