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

Insistent Traces

...other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Born in Chatham, Virginia, Claudia Emerson is the Arrington Distinguished Chair in...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...like the music, was the air that his ears breathed. This being said, it would be wrong not to acknowledge that this southern literary emergence in 1929—so surprising to the...

Timber, Equity, and Ethics

...of The Least of These: Fair Taxes and the Moral Duty of Christians (2003) and "An Argument for Tax Reform Based on Judeo-Christian Ethics" published in the Alabama Law Review, Fall...

Southern SpacesĀ Recommends

...Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice. You can pair this episode with Wilkerson's Southern Spaces essay "You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachia." Recently Published...

Geography

Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text.   About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...

Theories of Time and Space

Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...

Work

...changing headings on library cards, and cleaning houses, to working as a chair-side dental assistant, a secretary in an occupational therapy unit, and a counselor to prisoners in a minimum-security...