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

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

..."Strange Earth: The Stories of Flannery O'Connor." Georgia Review XII (Summer 1958): 216.  Although some stories — namely, "The Geranium" and "The Artificial Nigger" — take place in cities such as New...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

Review An odd thing has happened on the way to the antebellum American past. Capitalism reigns; cotton is king; and work and workers are no longer studied together. Instead, slaves...

Bodies and Souls

...2005. Screenshots by Southern Spaces. Although this film is not strictly observational, the work of Fred Wiseman was a prominent guidepost throughout the process, as it is in much of my work....

August, 1959: Morning Service

...spring pool where orange salamanders swirled and scuttled like flames. It was not muttered words that urged me back to that church, nor was it the hard comfort of pews...

The Change

...earth when quenched with rains called forth by our song and drumming. Leaves, which weeks later,   would be taken down and the strings pulled like string on top of...