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

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...New Orleans—variants of the X-code left by searchers as they systematically covered the city, critically pertinent markings applied to visited houses and buildings. “Paint fades, archives endure,” reads a promotional...

Genres of Southern Literature

...and Jacobs', South: Modern Southern Literature in its Cultural Setting). Heilman identified five features of the southern literary mind that made for distinctively "southern" texts based on analysis of what he...

Religion and the US South

...Courtesy of Baylor University Libraries, Southern Baptist Convention Annuals. Screenshot by Southern Spaces.  Southern religious leaders made a major contribution to promoting southern nationalism by the secession of major denominations. Well before...

Southern Spaces: A Partial History

...media Southern Spaces could accommodate. Southern Spaces homepage tablet display, 2016. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. As monitors grew and pixels shrank and the web's dominant aesthetic shifted from a three-dimensional...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...of slavery through landscape photography in his exhibition Elegy which I visited in January 2024 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Elegy features three photographic collections and two short...