Encountering the Southern Other: Imagining the Civil Rights Movement as Travel Narrative
Location
Beaman A&B
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
27-9-2013 1:00 PM
Description
The story of the Civil Rights Movement was in many ways a story about travel and hospitality, home and history. White and black activists imagined the movement of which they were a part by telling stories about how white and black Southerners greeted their presence as incomers, and about how a sense of their place in history and in events larger than themselves conflicted with Southern spaces presumably “trapped” by the past. In doing so, many activists committed themselves to the powerful acts of claiming that characterize monumental history, designating who was a part of history and who lay outside it.
Recommended Citation
Kuryla, Peter, "Encountering the Southern Other: Imagining the Civil Rights Movement as Travel Narrative" (2013). Humanities Symposium. 6.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2013/2013/6
Encountering the Southern Other: Imagining the Civil Rights Movement as Travel Narrative
Beaman A&B
The story of the Civil Rights Movement was in many ways a story about travel and hospitality, home and history. White and black activists imagined the movement of which they were a part by telling stories about how white and black Southerners greeted their presence as incomers, and about how a sense of their place in history and in events larger than themselves conflicted with Southern spaces presumably “trapped” by the past. In doing so, many activists committed themselves to the powerful acts of claiming that characterize monumental history, designating who was a part of history and who lay outside it.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture