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

Palomares Bajo

...an exercise in outrage at military duplicity. It is, as Eric Sandeen describes Misrach's work, an attempt "to situate American vision, to anchor American memory, in the ruins of modernity."...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...from the wind. This same soldier will leave her in a year. Then she’ll leave to go to Florida, to find her family, working people, forever poor, ready to move,...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...and imagery of pro-lynching newspapers, schooled Slovaks in American racism, a process that furthered their Americanization and their self-conception as white citizens. Sarah Silkey provides a rich understanding of the...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...a seemingly mundane phrase, but a phrase that speaks so much about American culture. You know, one must perpetually perform some aspect of American success ideology—whether it's a coming out...

Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire

...meaningful continuities. William Faulkner, for example, influenced iconic Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant and also made a pronounced impact on South American writer Gabriel García Márquez.1Valérie Loichot, Orphan...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...Sublime: Ecology and Resistance in the American Plantation Zone," is an expanded version of a piece Allewaert published in PMLA.2Monique Allewaert, "Swamp Sublime: Ecologies of Resistance in the American Plantation...