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

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...and scholarship in today's Africana archives eco-system. All that's needed are fresh questions and a creative imagination; the stories and objects are there for the taking, promoting, and interpreting. Africana...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...

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,...

Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction

...they nor the "keywords" themselves are intended to approach taxonomic precision. For similar reasons, we have avoided—although some contributors have not—the term "New Southern Studies," which carries, at least implicitly,...

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,...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...the murder, funeral, trial, and their aftermath. More precisely, Mace argues that there were significant differences in how print media covered the events based on section of the country—Midwest, Northeast,...