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

The Border South

...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...Literature 46.1 (March 1974): 56.  Like the "stinger" of Christ lodged in Hazel Motes' mother's head, O'Connor demonstrates "that the violence of rejection in the modern world demands an equal violence...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...Samuel Snoddy before his marriage, would also include some sort of sitting room intended for the family's private use. Material culture researchers frequently refer to county probate records, which not...

Residues of Border Control

...and Theoretical Perspective, ed. Michael Bøss (Aarhus: Aarhus Academic Press, 2011). Ellis Island, as a space of memory, resulted from a complex interaction of actors and perspectives, including the Immigration...