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

The Morning with Many Tongues

...has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and Stanford University where he...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...period of rising conservative political power, have grudgingly acknowledgeed African American history. To the extent that we have a dominant narrative now, it consists of the 'many voices and many...

Country Music Scholar

...honky tonk of the oil boom with older Appalachian music Part 4: Malone discusses the commercialization of rural southern music first as “hillbilly” and later as “country” Part 5: Malone discusses relationships...

Submission Process

...focus on the role of space, place, or region within its main arguments? Does it deal with the US South in some way? How might this piece work in terms...

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

...Trethewey Part 2: York discusses his relation to “the southern writer,” racial geography and history, industry and manufacturing in Alabama Part 3: York discusses family history and local reception of his work:...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...was man-to-man — a turf war over beer sales, I'd learn later. I was amazed with how many terms for street shootings we have in New Orleans. Though I knew...