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

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....

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...writing down, through a hyper-awareness of the place the researcher is temporarily occupying, the seemingly minute details of everyday life. This is important because, as Clifford Geertz—the first to practice...

Theories of Time and Space

...on Mississippi 49, one- by-one mile markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion—dead end at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where riggings...

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...a spring but sink into which trees and highway, bank and fields are sipped away to minuteness. All split on the present then merge in stretched perspective, radiant in reverse,...