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

Vestibule

I sometimes wish I could find Cindy to thank her for agreeing with my fine idea that we sneak into the university chapel late one night in 1983 to make...

Making History

All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against a brick wall a...

California Creek, North Carolina

...effort to finish before deadline which would mean bonuses for the contractor, California Creek, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Inspector measuring depth of asphalt on I-26 shoulder, California...

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

...started helping load. I started cooking. Another lady in the neighborhood was helping Laura. When I took my dish down to the Jacksons' house later, there was food all over...

Roadside Architecture

...I hope that I am not.  Photo Essay Map Locations of photographs in the order they are displayed. near Holly Grove, MS Kaplan, LA near Abbeville, MS Red River Parish,...

Southern SpacesĀ Recommends

...through George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. It was worth the nine-hundred-page trip, largely for Eliot's foray into Jewish cultural politics in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and for her...

Mapping Souths

...if that antinomic construction ever existed—has hardly removed it from the domain of everyday use.  About the Author Scott Romine, an associate professor of English at the University of North...

Congregation

...Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University. Her first collection, Domestic Work, won the 1999 Cave Canem prize, a 2001...

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...