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

Genres of Southern Literature

...this preference also reflects the current theoretical argument that genres are codes constructed from, as well as speaking to, historical contingency. The rubric "southern" has meant different things to differently...

California Creek, North Carolina

...effort to finish before deadline which would mean bonuses for the contractor, California Creek, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Inspector measuring depth of asphalt on I-26 shoulder, California...

Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina

...Gulfport, Mississippi, 2005." Southern Spaces, September 1, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/barge-washed-ashore-after-hurricane-katrina-gulfport-mississippi-2005. Moye, Dorothy. "Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition." Southern Spaces, August 26, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition. ———. "The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript." Southern...

How I Shed My Skin

...explained" (8) the unprecedented circumstances of judicial desegregation, speaking only in "coded, guarded" (10) language. Photograph of a young Jim Grimsley, age 11, Jones County, North Carolina, 1966. Courtesy of...