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

Image Credits

...KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018. Title screenshot from "The Homosexuals," originally aired CBS television, March 7, 1967. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018....

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...South Intersections of music with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Native American musics, Latina/o musics, musics of immigrant groups Local music scenes: punk, hardcore, rock, folk, hip-hop, emerging...

Single Centers of Creation?

...in the Southern Appalachian mountains. Excerpt from Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, 1859: Artist's Statement It has been thought that, because of the tremendous diversity of lungless salamanders...

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

...is the human voice, and are we not of interest to each other?   Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander...

"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying

...the Sun (New York: Scribner's,1976), Ian Hamilton's Writers in Hollywood: 1915–1951 (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990), Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974), and Meta...

Mapping Souths

...and Slavery in the American Slaves States (1861; New York: Modern Library, 1984), 3. Decoding Trescot's South as (mere) battle slogan, Marx silently generates a battle slogan of his own:...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...Democratic Governor Mike Beebe's veto of a law that will require voters to show photo identification at the polls. When the law takes effect on January 1, 2014, Arkansas will...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...singers negotiated their associations of Sacred Harp singing with place. Lauren Bock, 196-86, Gdansk Airport, Poland, 2012. The song on page 196 in The Sacred Harp is titled "Alabama"; the...