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

Writing Appalachia

...seek is scattered to the four quarters of the internet.1Websites for locating Appalachian writing include Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu) and Making of America (quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/). Additionally, many specialized anthologies of...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...an Emory dissertation, submitted in 1997. I had these really superb advisers: Mary Odem, Catherine Nickerson, and, of course, Allen Tullos was chair of my committee. Martin Duberman was an...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...the tropical and temperate world.” Map showing Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry, 2011. Indeed, his dilemma becomes which stars to feature at this crowded convention. Malaria and smallpox earn...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...southern music. Commercial songs that were popular and mass-produced and made money were not southern music. As folkloric ideas about authenticity spread, listeners increasingly expected musicians to racially "embody" the...