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

Inside Poor Monkey's

...November 2004. In the early twenty-first century, Poor Monkey’s is only reliably open Thursday nights, starting around 8:30 and closing in the early hours of Friday morning. This is the...

Submission Guidelines

...usually substantially longer than articles and/or frequently contain more (and often interactive) multimedia and digital elements. Monographs undergo a rigorous internal review in addition to a double-blind peer review process...

Genres of Southern Literature

...Division,  loc.gov/pictures/resource/van.5a52142. Likewise, to segregate white southern literature from African American literature means that we are perpetually looking, half-dimensionally, at only one side of a coin. For example, two historically...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...or horror-comedy fans, consider Eli Craig's 2010 film Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, currently available on Netflix. It hilariously explores the trope of the killer hillbilly in horror movies by...

Fife Family Cemetery

Video Fife Family Cemetery, Hughes County, Oklahoma, 2008. Filmed by Craig Womack and Rosemary McCombs Maxey, edited by Southern Spaces staff. Affiliated essay....

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river...

No Place

...You Think Of?" is also available on Southern Spaces. Cover Image Attribution Abandoned bridge over the Cahaba River, January 10, 2021. Photograph by Flickr user MK Hardy. Creative Commons license...