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

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

...discusses “Miscegenation,” “The South,” “Saturday Matinee,” “Elegy,” “Mexico,” “The Book of Castas” and new work  About Natasha Trethwey Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...that “contributed to ‘breaking the bonds of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities’” (11, quoting Turner, 1920). The backdrop to The Sacred Harp’s emergence is not...

Remnants of Flannery

...largely set in-and-around New Orleans; Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and the 2012 film of the same name, which reimagines slaves as food for vampires and the...

DOIs and Altmetrics

...Courtesy of Southern Spaces.   The journal is also partnering with Altmetric, a service that tracks user engagement across social media and journalistic outlets. Altmetrics allow authors and readers to track...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...