“Grimsley’s allusions to multiple sorts of 1970s queerness evidence his continued interest in parallel times and in terms that evoke the slippery and shifting interpretations and possibilities in our world….”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The North Carolina Literary Review 2023 feature is Native American Literature of North Carolina, guest edited by Dr. Kirstin L. Squint, and… Read More »Lumbee Literary Voices Featured in NCLR Online Fall 2023 Issue
Wrapping up the semester After imagining the massacre and coup in Marrow, reckoning with it in Wilmington’s Lie, and finally, recovering the stories in the… Read More »Field Trip to Wilmington
Wilmington Daily Record The final third of this blended course is actually a years-long project: recovering the history and stories of Black Wilmington before the… Read More »Weeks 11–15: Archival Research
The literary analysis unit ends with the students researching and writing a four-source annotated bibliography on scholarly articles that approach The Marrow of Tradition from… Read More »Weeks 1–5 Assignment
As the October 31 deadline for this year’s competition draws near, I find myself reflecting on some of the past winners and finalists we’ve published in the journal—such as Leah Hampton, Annie Frazier, Robert Wallace, Thomas Wolf, Heather Bell Adams, and last year’s winner, Erin Miller Reid—and on Doris Betts herself.
Each week students respond to a Discussion Board prompt on Canvas. Their mini essays serve as the springboard for the week’s conversations. These Discussion Board… Read More »Weeks 1–5: Discussion Boards
Wilmington’s Lie: Historical and Cultural Analysis Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition allows the students to get to know the characters of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre,… Read More »Weeks 6–10: Overview
Just as we did in the literary analysis unit, the five weeks we are devoting to historical and cultural analysis of the massacre and its… Read More »Weeks 6-10: Discussion Boards
The Marrow of Tradition: Literary Analysis Before we begin reading the novel, I have a discussion with the students about the concept of “hard history”… Read More »Weeks 1–5: Overview