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

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...Geoffrey H. Hartman, "Romantic Poetry and the Genius Loci" in Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958–1970 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970), 311–36; Roberto M. Dainotto, Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...the threshold of citizenship" (16), being considered, for instance, as three-fifths of a person in the 1787 US Constitution (11). She links this disaggregation to the process of creolization, which,...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...amount of £ 340 Sterg To purchase religious books for The Poor.1The stone and that of the minister's sister Mary Davie are now inside a brick-walled enclosure built in 1927....

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...in a particular field, like historical background so that, for instance, you can make sense of nineteenth-century language patterns. What I find interesting is that digital projects by necessity require...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...North, New York Times, September 3, 1864. Northern Civil War commanders made the capture of Confederate cities—specifically Atlanta and Richmond—and the crippling or destroying of the armies defending them, the major...

Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism

...regional writing outside of the context of its original publication and reception.1"Regional writing" is the received critical vocabulary for the literature Hardwig treats. See, for instance, Stephanie Foote's Regional Fictions:...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...W.W. Norton, 2022), 54. In this, Hartman eschews the “overdetermined reading of the sounds of slavery”6Hartman, Scenes of Subjection, 30. prescribed by twentieth century Black thinkers such as W. E....