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

Religion and the US South

...landscape of places where many people were passionate and open about their faith. By Faulkner's time, evangelical Protestantism had already long dominated the South as a whole, and this proselytizing...

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

...for best film, and Quvenzhané Wallis, his spunky, firebreathing star, may be crowned best actress. In the movie she plays the part of one of Louisiana's Katrina-surviving, throwaway children, but...

A City Divided

...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998).  Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...

Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

...was to characterize Flaherty's work. New History of Documentary Film (NY: Continuum, 2008).  In order to create the narrative frame central to his documentary mode, and to celebrate the exotic landscape he...