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

Prayer of the Backhanded

...my forgetting The love of a hand Hungry for reflex, a hand that took No thought of its target Like hail from a blind sky, Involuntary, fast, but brutal In...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...Giroux, 2006); J. Michael Martinez, Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007); Stephen Budiansky, The Bloody...

Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes

Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...Portobelo reflects off the cerulean blue sky and puffy white clouds unto the still waters of the bay, producing a rather unique effect of light that seemingly glows from beneath...

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...track the alligators in the marshes—a challenging, time-consuming, and risky endeavor—they sent the drone to take overhead photos at higher resolutions than currently available imagery from the US Department of...

Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye.   Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...