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

Chattahoochee (excerpt)

...wallow, I can almost see the bottom of the lake, the black bass diving, dividing the darkness in the feathery tissue of its gills, as curl after curl rises from...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...darkness and as she rises her head scrapes against a rock ceiling and all is black and silent and she tells herself don't breathe but the need grows inside her...

Substantiation

...knows he's coming since he whistles like a train on the way out of town. * They say it was darker than a thousand midnights in the cabin, that they...

Editorial Style Guide

...sections or pages of websites in quotation marks. Google Maps "Google Maps Help Center" Punctuation: Do not italicize email addresses or URLs. To see the new website, visit http://www.southernspaces.org. Hyphens:...

How I Shed My Skin

...as a white-wooled lamb, God's adversary as a prince of . . . darkness, salvation as a cleansing that leads to shining whiteness. God, Christ, and all the angels wore...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...locating their poems in specific historical and social sites. There is, I argue, a red thread of American poetry that has consistently and productively represented race as a spatial rather...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...