Tag: Diasporia Studies

  • Gullah Geechee: Keeping Tradition Alive

    Gullah Geechee: Keeping Tradition Alive

    How storytelling became a vessel for memory, resistance, and cultural survival. In last week’s blog, we explored how Savannah shaped Flannery O’Connor’s storytelling—its shadows, grace, and Southern cadence. This week, we turn to the Gullah Geechee people, whose stories were not written but spoken, sung, and remembered. Forbidden by law to read or write, enslaved…