Mater and Mattering the Mississippi: Mother River and Mother Tongues

October 8th, 2019

Honing in on the “sentiment” that acts as one of the focuses of Field Station 1, in this text, Louise Carver for Temporary continent. considers how the Mississippi River can be read as an embodiment of matrilineal flow.

Honing in on the “sentiment” that acts as one of the focuses of Field Station 1, in this text, Louise Carver for Temporary continent. considers how the Mississippi River can be read as an embodiment of matrilineal flow. Carver relates notions of mothering to the different histories the Mississippi River has borne witness to—along with the violence of the various contemporary capitalist processes it is currently subject to.