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

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...like the honesty of his approach. ("Mr. Thompson decided to use wishful thinking as his guide," wrote Janet Maslin in the New York Times.) Thompson refers to his task as...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...ease the Dead's transition into the other world and towards ancestral status.12Thompson, Robert Farris, Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy (New York: Random House, 2010); Vlach,...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...capital of the Confederacy. Virginia established the most active commission for the centennial and invested $1.75 million in the effort, much of it for a new building in Richmond. The...

I-26, Corridor of Change

...rural counties across the United States, Madison experienced rapid change. In the 1960s, a significant number of newcomers entered Madison County from outside the Southern Appalachian region. The earliest of...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...century forged a new cultural identity that combined elements of Italian, Spanish, and Cuban cultures. Ybor City's remarkable syncretism attracted photographers, historians, folklorists, and journalists seeking to document work, play,...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...Quarterly Review (Spring 1975), 222–239; Cleanth Brooks's "Southern Literature: The Wellsprings of Its Vitality," Georgia Review 16 (1962), 238–253; Flannery O'Connor's Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (New York: Farrar, Straus...