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

Genres of Southern Literature

...message, structure, plot etc. The first southern literatures and indeed the first critical pronouncements about southern literature appeared at a time when the South, as a section of the United...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...

The Place of Appalachia

...maintain family and community ties. County Economic Status in Appalachia, Fiscal Year 2013, Appalachian Regional Commission. Population Change in Appalachia, 2000–2010, Appalachian Regional Commission. Unemployment Rates in Appalachia, 2010 (County...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...Appalachian households might attend college, but it does not come close to addressing the larger cultural problem of why high school kids in Appalachia often don't apply. In Hillbilly Elegy...

Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake

...century; the forms of violence the larger nation imposes on Appalachia in its appetite for Appalachian resources. Appalachian people are not more violent than other Americans, however, despite popular narratives...