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

Southern Spaces Recommends

...the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17556_10. Allen Tullos, senior editor: I've just read Daniel Kehlmann's novel Tyll, about a legendary trickster figure and courtly fool travelling in...

Local Color

...Grace King, Kate Chopin, Mollie E. Moore Davis, Sarah Barnwell Elliott, Ruth McEnery Stuart). It is possible that the feminization of local color contributed to the genre's loss of popularity;...

Insistent Traces

Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...

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...

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...are walled rooms beneath raised houses, filled with industrial machines lost to history, cable boxes and plugs, and regular tools (see footnote six). Shed, Chauvin, Louisiana, June 2013. Photograph by...