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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...Plants, Saga, and Sabetsu," Faulkner Journal of Japan 1 (May 1999), http://www.faulknerjapan.com/journal/No1/anne.htm. As Craig Werner prophesied, this continued response by black writers to Faulkner's irritations and incitements is far from...

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...magazine’s Japan edition. Newspapers from the Memphis Commercial Appeal to the New York Times have published descriptions and photos. The floor plan of the lounge has been analyzed as an...

Palomares Bajo

Palomares Bajo: Photo Essay John Howard, Field (left), Home (center), Strata (right), Palomares, Spain, April 2011. Twenty years after the American annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, the United States...

Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South

...Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official's Reconnaissance Trip to the US South." Southern Spaces, March 18, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/color-democracy-japanese-public-health-officials-reconnaissance-trip-us-south. Herring, Christie. Bodies and Souls. Southern Spaces, November 30, 2009....

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...by Meredith Roman and Fumiko Sakashita examine Soviet and Japanese uses of US lynching in state propaganda during the 1930s and World War II. Both the Soviets and the Japanese,...