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

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...Cable, Erskine Caldwell, Truman Capote, Fred Chappell, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Pat Conroy, Hubert Creekmore, Harry Crews, James Dickey, Ellen Douglas, Alice Dunbar- Nelson, Ralph Ellison, Fannie Flagg, Shelby Foote,...

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...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...the gradual shifting of intellectual tectonic plates. Clearly a necessary but difficult virtue in Appalachian Studies is patience. But the tempo of patient, careful scholarship can be frustrating for others...

Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm

Photographing Andalusia After receiving permission from the Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation to visit and photograph, in April, 2007 I went to Milledgeville from my home in South Carolina. Andalusia is located...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...

The Morning with Many Tongues

...has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and Stanford University where he...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...like this" next to a picture of a man with his cap on backwards, and "not like that" next to an image of a man with his underpants showing above...

Southern Spaces 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...