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

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...body of antebellum writing, often collected into books from magazine sketches and easily recognizable through the presence of familiar generic conventions: the clash of upper and lower-class, backwoods characters; heavy...

The Place of Appalachia

...recognized this reality. Rick Simon, for example, employing a Marxist framework, asserted that Appalachia represented a spatialized manifestation of class exploitation.1Richard M. Simon, "Regions and Social Relations: A Research Note,"...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...small business owners, all "well-known" young men, except for W. N. Davis, a sixty-year-old man engaged in the "restaurant business." Two of the "leaders" were Clifton Schroeter, the proprietor of...

Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus

...district—would ultimately fade as public officials, business leaders, and area residents "generally supported the board's policies" and approved the schools' performance through the 1980s and into 1990s (22). However, as...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...