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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

...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...

Religion and the US South

Introduction Hope Mills Rapid Lube Sign, Hope Mills, North Carolina, March 20, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user Gerry Dincher. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0.  Religion has been a formative...

St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History

...The "slave market" became the focal point for the 1964 St. Augustine Movement—a clash between nonviolent protestors and segregationists—prior to President Lyndon Johnson's signing the Civil Rights Act.2Dan R. Warren,...