Turner situates Komunyakaa's
southernness as part of his transcultural identity as well.
In it, the putatively white speaker, who otherwise exalts
Southernness in the poem, uses the term "freebooter," a term connoting rapaciousness and illicitness, to describe the only other presumably white figure in the poem.
(6) But its vision is uncharacteristically subdued for a postsouthern fiction and betrays a simultaneous attraction to the aura of
southernness that Todd's questioning so relentlessly demystifies.
Not to mention a center of history, literature, and a distinctively Arkinsawan strain of
Southernness.
While embracing nostalgia solidifies identity and place norms, disrupting nostalgia allows anomalous, fluid forms of
Southernness to surface that might corrode hardened, intransigent
Southernness.
Sandy Twynholm kept the North East flag flying when he fought his way through to the fourth round of the Scottish Amateur Championship at
Southernness, Galloway, yesterday, (writes Duncan Madsen).
Not only, as we have seen, is Simms a conceptual architect of the very positionality Alcoff endorses, but his voluminous works also provide an opportunity to position him as a central cultural figure--someone whose "pivotal role as a kind ancestral father to modern literature of the South is beginning to be acknowledged" (40)--within a revitalized account of
southernness. (41) Would not southerners, as Alcoff--and Simms--imagine them, prefer to invoke such a guardian genius as the basis of an autonomous southern positionality?
Bonner's purpose, in fact, is to reorient the national understanding of metropole and periphery, removing Emerson and the New England he represents from the center to the margins, relocating her own
Southernness at the center of the nation she reconfigures.
Like other contributors to the volume, Johnstone also speculates whether some features of
Southernness may be retreating in the face of pressure from globalization and in-migration of outsiders, or whether they will be exploited to index local identity.
And for me, a native of western North Carolina living in exile in the Midwest, it is a joy to encounter the "
Southernness" in her fictional world, despite the fact that this world she presents is often not at all lovely.