Readings from The North Sea
by softarcades
Allen Shelton’s “Where the North Sea Touches Alabama” (On sale by University of Chicago Press: press.uchicago.edu) is a work of sociological fictocriticism that explores not only the author’s relationship to the artist but his physical, historical, and social relationship to northeastern Alabama, in rare style. “In Christ there is no East or West, North or South, and the North Sea touches Alabama.” Part of the sermon by a Sand Mountain preacher, 1979. This utterance by a preacher inexplicably came true when […]
Categories: Happenings, Where the North Sea... • Tags: Allen C. Shelton, Donna Haraway, Julian Montague, Kathleen Stewart, Lesley Stern, Michael Joyce, Molly Jarboe, Nathan M. Peracciny, Where the North Sea Touches Alabama