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AMST 211 1nd Edition Lecture 23Outline of Current Lecture1. Southern Ecologies 2. Noise3. Southern Silence4. Book WorkshopCurrent LectureWhat is the future of the South? 3 Ideas to Help Us Think About Southern Futures1. Southern Ecologies◦ Biological sense of interactions among organisms in an environment. ◦ Think in terms of sociologies, and relationships between people, institutions and the environments that they inhabit. 2. Noise◦ The remarked upon moments of the exceptional. What we hear, what we perceive. Aspects of the South that have come forward into our consideration◦ It is the presence that we try to understand. 3. Southern silence: more problematic. The unarticulated systems of values that serve a sense ofeveryday relations. The world of things that go unsaid or unstated. ◦ Presence that remains unexpressed. ◦ Foundational, base upon which we build these articulations of Southern imaginaries, ideologies, aesthetics. ◦ Makes us consider how evidence enters into our awareness. The world is filled with the clamor of things, events, and mysteries. ◦ How do we go about making things visible?◦ How do we define the South? ◦ Porous/permeable ◦ multivalent: many voices. ◦ Dynamic: not a specimen that could be dissected and understood, rather the Souths are under constant negotiation. They are presences that they are able to These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.comprehend and project. ◦ Something that we can grasp. Perhaps the idea of region exploded into the idea of global sensibility. ◦ Moments that promise a future iteration. ◦ The South is always enacted. Book Workshop Iron Man 4. ecologies: interaction between the grandpa and the writer/her siblings. Also the relationship between the father and the grandfather. 5. future: “I desired this unwrought knowledge” The grandpa drives the writer to nature (fishing,hunting, pine trees, etc.)6. silence: mental illness and the impact that it had on her grandfather and then her father. 7. noise: storytelling, “You Get A Line, I’ll Get a Pole"Poverty• noise: interaction between storekeeper, father, and children◦ The children are excited about the “surprise” aka the expired box of goods. This showsthe optimism of the children. • silence: unspoken truth about financial situation. Highlights that the community supports the poor. ◦ notion of expectation grounded in an unstated engagement with the nature of community itself. Singing and Driving• The kids are in the driveway pretending they are driving the car somewhere. • This highlights that being inside of the car unites the family. • Trying to move- modernity. We also see an imagined authority, stopping the car from theoretically moving too fast. We see the idea of progress. Leaving: author went to military school • moves from a chaotic environment to an organized environment. She silences herself by conforming, but her noise comes from her rooted identity that makes her skittish to change. • She goes from order to disorder. How the Heart Open• She uses the few resources she has for a school project. The judges are not impressed, but she develops a love for nature and rain. She also talks about various moments where herfather saves animals. Because the kids let a friend kill the turtle, the dad beats the kids with a belt. • This love represents a Southern emotion, but also the silence of his mental illness. Junkyard• The South is a place where things are thrown away, but the dad takes whatever is in thejunkyard and makes it his own. • The noise came from the strong presence of the love she has for her father. Child of Pine• Creation story that the children were told. They were told that they were found in nature. Silence was the parents not telling them the real birth story. The piano was unwanted noise, and silent because she did not want to play it. She would rather listen to a thunderstorm than play the piano. • Grace and gracelessness. These noises call into vision the larger arrays of conflict. Shame• ecology: relation to junkyard and community around her• noise: she was ashamed of her Southern accent because she sounded poor. • silence: She was deceptive about her father’s job because she told everyone that he was a


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