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

Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach

...on the day-to-day lives of the Lovings" and "make a really slow, quiet film."2Joe Robberson, "Director Jeff Nichols talks 'Loving,' His relationship With the South & His Muse, Michael Shannon,"...

Deep Ellum Blues

...a mile or so to the south and east of this neighborhood, I saw the black neighborhoods around Fair Park, neighborhoods which I understood to be South Dallas (i.e. black...

The Liminal Site

...Topographically if not quite culturally, Birmingham sits where the post-plantation Deep South in which I lived and worked from 1995 to 2010 meets the Appalachian South near which I grew...

Remnants of Flannery

...presence there to reveal themselves."24Nancy Marshall, "Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm," Southern Spaces, April 28, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/andalusia-photographs-flannery-oconnors-farm. About the Author Eric Solomon is an editorial associate at Southern Spaces...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...just southerners) took up Confederate symbols as signs of rebellion. As the southern rock of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd filled the soundscape, Eggleston could not resist playing this...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

Review Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In a few days, well before the first mosquito-killing frost reaches the South Carolina Lowcountry, I’ll head...

Editorial Style Guide

...a whole is to simply use "the South" or "southern" whenever possible. South: Southern Spaces prefers writing that treats "the South" as an imagined geography that has had important political...