Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Earl Dotter, Environmental activist volunteers, Raleigh County, West Virginia, 2005. From Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining and the Environment. Southern Spaces editors will work with authors, photographers, artists, and videographers in...
Letter: Blues
...hooks. A sidewalk crack in Washington, D.C. Will feed my city dirt roots. Wait for me. Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...of forty-five minutes to cast their votes. "[M]ore than 200,000 voters in Florida 'gave up in frustration,'" according to an Orlando Sentinel report. Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia also faced long lines...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...and the Making of a Nation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010); and Helen C. Rountree, Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries (Norman: University...
Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...mountaintop removal mining operations in Kentucky and West Virginia arguing that "in Appalachia . . . the Clean Water Act is not being enforced." Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant announced today...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...go. This is our monster, too. About the Author Grace Elizabeth Hale teaches cultural history and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Making Whiteness:...
The Dirt Eaters
...famili ar as the smell of dirt. Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...inverting it as a pair of West Virginians try to repair their new vacation home in the mountains and are repeatedly harassed by a group of college kids convinced that...