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

History: The Parlor

...activity, but instead of reading individually and silently, the family was likely to listen to someone reading aloud. Typically, the man of the house would read aloud, while women engaged...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...not only the electoral potential in the Sunbelt but also the political dynamite in the social and cultural conflicts of the 1960s. Phillips famously confided to a journalist that understanding...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...of two books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue (Kent State University, 2000), which won the 1999 Stan and Tom Wick Prize for Poetry and was the finalist for the...

Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway

Banner image for Driving Through Time, DocSouth, 2012. Review Well-worn words and phrases come to mind when driving the Blue Ridge Parkway—stunning, dramatic, timeless, a miracle of engineering and landscape...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...for a list of previous Southern Spaces publications that exemplify the range of interdisciplinary work we seek. As part of this series, we will publish peer-reviewed digital projects. Please contact us if...

Birdhouses

Introduction When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space1Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (New York:...

Single Centers of Creation?

...2009.  About the Author Nancy Lowe is a naturalist artist and scientific illustrator based in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art Institute...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...black phalanx. What is monument to their legacy? All the grave markers, all the crude headstones— water—lost. Now fish dart among their bones, and we listen for what the waves...