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

And the Prize Goes to...

...studies. Finally, the class noted Delerme's combination of tools from linguistics and sonic studies that opened up her subjects in ways that left them wanting to learn more. One student...

Buckner Gap, North Carolina

...lines in the road’s concrete surface being cleaned prior to the highway’s opening, Buckner Gap, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...have found a dearth of successful public black protests in the South, not because they have not looked for them, but because the repercussions for African Americans who acted openly...

Substantiation

...pair has woven strips of Look Bryant spreads throughout the woods. In twenty years no one's come. He opens a shotgun on the starlings' calls each morning and they spray...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye.   Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...beginning in the upper stomach then up through the chest and throat and as that need rises her mouth and nose open at the same time and the lungs explode...

Fall Creek

...had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water.   Published in Raising the Dead (2003). Text may vary...