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

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...of imaginative departure for much of her fiction.1Flannery O'Connor, Letters to Betty Hester: 1955-1964. Manuscript Collection No. 1064. Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. The O'Connor-Hester letters suggest...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...Freedom Struggle is the latest installment in the growing shelf of books about the Till murder and its aftermath. (Truth in reviewing: I'm at work on a book about Till...