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

Mapping Souths

Essay Stories that use the South by purporting to map it are no new thing, as two nineteenth-century passages responding to the question of southern secession will illustrate: It is...

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, and Richard Wright. Partial and incomplete, the much longer list in the note favors novelists while acknowledging the centrality of the short...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...and to sketch the outlines of a more hopeful future" (17). Yet it is here that their otherwise outstanding book falls short, failing to visualize that hopeful future—or even progress...

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

...family history; discussion of "Elegy for the Southern Drawl;" and realism.) About Rodney Jones Rodney Jones won the 2007 Kingsley Tufts Prize and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...Lounge, "Poor Monkey's Social Club." Video Poor Monkey's, Fall 2005. This short clip offers a glimpse inside the space as blues musician Big George Brock performs. Poor Monkey Suli Yi,...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

...everybody online) will have access to high quality information and ideas. At the same time, it is important to remember and consider the structures and shortfalls of the Wikipedia model....