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

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...in August (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), 280. As Bleikasten continues, "even though the poet speaks to the urn and allows the urn to speak in the final two lines,...

Mississippi Delta

...white settlement after Indian treaties between 1820 and 1832. One traveler in the 1820s, Paul Wilhelm, described a rich ecology, noting migratory birds, kingfishers, herons, ducks, eagles, and the soon-to-disappear...

Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction

...self/other—that postcolonial studies has taught us is the most damaging rhetorical structure of empire.6Particularly Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978) and Sara Suleri Goodyear, Rhetoric of English India...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...Sciences at Emory University. His publications include Life Traces of the Georgia Coast (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013). Steve Bransford is the senior video producer at the Emory Center for...

Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta

...night laborers, nightcrawlers. Cottonmouths. Plantation houses on Indian Mounds. Jukes. Blues. Open roads. Dark and lonely cells. Government assistance. Government neglect. Lots not yet vacant but long past occupied. Ribs,...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...settling in Mishawaka, Indiana, where they found jobs and the economic opportunity that had eluded them in the South. He is the editor of and a contributor to The Hayloft...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...and includes items belonging to African American slaves and Native Americans, people involuntarily brought to Virginia and those who were decimated and pushed out.  “No native Indian in Virginia is...