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

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...to pose an original argument or research-based claim. All Southern Spaces articles undergo peer review. Reviews offer critical evaluations of recently published books, films, digital projects, music, events, and other art or scholarship related...

Buckner Gap, North Carolina

...NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drilling blast holes, Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Blast supervisor inspecting recent explosion, Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy...

Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities

...accidental, haphazard layering. Here, recent events — the pressures of changing cultural values and beliefs — left traces on historical cityscapes that already displayed little, if any, conscious purpose. In...

Birdhouses

...and Criticism (University of Alabama Press, 2002) and three books on Erskine Caldwell, most recently Reading Erskine Caldwell: New Essays (McFarland, 2006). He is self-taught as a photographer. Photo Essay...

Inside Poor Monkey's

Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...media. It pairs very nicely with Anna Creadick's 2017 Southern Cultures article "Banjo Boy: Masculinity, Disability, and Difference in Deliverance." Recently Published at Southern Spaces "Writing Appalachia: An Excerpt" by...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...team's working conditions, describing how, "in recent years when asked to speak on the subject 'Working with Zora' . . . I have been tempted to suggest that the title...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001), and most recently, Let the People See:...