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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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....