Jacquelyn Hall, 1996–1997 | National Humanities Center

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (NHC Fellow, 1996–97)

Project Title

Reticence and Reclamation: Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and the Refashioning of Southern Identity

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Fellowship Work Summary, 1996–97

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall finished the rough draft of her book tentatively entitled "Writing Memory: Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin and the Refashioning of Southern Identity" and completed an essay drawn from this work—"The Geometry of Return: Memory, Imagination, and the Refashioning of Southern Identity" which will appear in the December 1997 issue of American Quarterly. She also contributed "A Later Comment" to a round table discussion on "What We See and Can't See in the Past" published in the Spring 1997 issue of the Journal of American History.