Approaching Horn Island

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Abstract

This chapter examines the relationship between bioregional identity and self-creation, focusing specifically on the American Gulf South. By triangulating with Horn Island (a barrier island off the Mississippi coast), the life and art of painter Walter Inglis Anderson, and the author’s field experiences, the chapter forwards a theory of ekphrastic naturecultural engagement that treats embodied and sensorial participation in more-than-human systems as constitutive of identity. Rather than a Romantic view, however, this chapter suggests that these entanglements may present fraught and often unforeseen difficulties.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Posthumanist Collaborations in Performance: A Praxis-based Approach to Qualitative Inquiry

First Page

75

Last Page

94

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