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

Sapelo Island Flyover

...and much more. Despite its short 3:45-minute length, this video's content, combined with its brief narrated descriptions, can inspire an hour or more of classroom discussion of natural and human...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...Years a Slave. In closing, I would like to share a couple of minutes of the SOTA production, one that has been very faithful to my vision. The focus on...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...mist her hair with her "Big Sexy Hair" spray, and drive us five minutes to school before heading to the office and further patients to visit and administrative duties to...

I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees

...simply for their architecture. All winter the dying have set their tables and now they are almost as black as the profound waters off Guam. A few minutes ago, when...

Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity

...the sink, waiting for the unfortunate accidents that punctuate the day and night and all the hours and minutes within, that help you tell time.   Published in The Boatloads...

Theories of Time and Space

...markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion — dead end at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where rigging of shrimp boats are...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...sound chamber. But the tone of the strings on the other neck was yours, old sweet-playing father. In the late twenties, they cut a few minutes of you into vinyl...

Consolation

...maybe we could, a minute, rejoice that no one will ever fall from this height again, no one will tangle three months in the river and be raised up anonymous...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...essays also include a writing component. Short videos are five to twenty-five minutes and utilize visual—as opposed to textual or rhetorical—techniques to advance a critical argument or an aesthetic perspective....