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

Seneca Quarry

...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...new or surprising material. Writers popular and academic have long served up Cherokee Removal as a measure of an emergent nation's moral capacity.1Significant works include William G. McLoughlin, Cherokees and...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...a throat-filled epiphany death licking madness an elegy for mud 4. This is the river of no longer. Here by the side of the Black Warrior, lights are woven through...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). Chroniclers of the black freedom struggle have long sought to dispel the collective memory that undergirds what local state officials...

A Mess of Poke

...are rather stately. My Poke Sallet Granny My maternal grandmother, at least, kept eating poke sallet long after she no longer had to because she loved the stuff. Mee-Ma lived...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...