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

Zircon

...of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Dark Energy (Penguin, 2015). He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek (1999), a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek,...

Mapping Souths

...on either side of them, diverse, independent, hostile to each other and capable of being at best but 'unequally yoked together,' and yet Mr. Trescott [sic] with great profoundness, announces...

Bricking the Church

...a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek, The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, North Star, is forthcoming in 2015. In addition,...

Geography

...a producer for the Southern Spaces series Poets in Place, in which she has published three previous pieces, Congregation, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space....

Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction

...southern literary studies coalesced around a set of ostensibly southern senses (of place, community, family, "the concrete") and Faulknerian formulas ("You would have to be born there," "I don't hate...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...remembers 'that chairs were placed on the balcony of the two-story building to accommodate the crowds gathered to witness the lynching,' while he stayed behind locked doors in his office,...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...time and place, amid social pressures and situations of prejudice. Wenders claims that the music and the archival material should "speak for itself," but the film's primary concern is the...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....