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

Love and Death in Mississippi

...patients, an elderly man ("Mr. S") who lived alone around the corner from us. My mother runs a home health and hospice department with the local hospital, and for as...

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...Now, in the dark morning of 19 January 1943, a train was about to pass. John Yoshida was ready. Yoshida took off his overcoat and folded it neatly. He took...

Mississippi Delta

Essay Mississippi Delta region. Map by Stacey Martin, 2006. Sociologist Rupert Vance wrote in the 1930s of the "cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed" Mississippi Delta as "the deepest South." A half...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...Sea Island region. Safely isolated from such Old World sicknesses as influenza, smallpox, malaria, and yellow fever, they migrated seasonally to take full advantage of the coastal abundance. Nowadays, other...

No Place

Video About the Author Minnie Bruce Pratt's books include The Sound of One Fork (1981), Yours in Stuggle (1984), We Say We Love Each Other (1985), Crime Against Nature (1990),...

The Border South

...the National Guard to restore order. Yet, the Border region in the 1950s and 60s was clearly connected into national networks of economy, media, finance, and government in ways that...

The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces

...House, a National Park Service historic site and pre–Civil War home of the Custis-Lee family outside of Washington, DC, address the subject of slavery and Robert E. Lee as a...

"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying

...author's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Readers inhabit the thoughts of fifteen different narrators spread over fifty-nine chapters, experiencing how each family member (including the dead mother herself) views and is viewed...