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

The Colonialist's Gaze

...Hill (used previously by the Spanish military for the transmission of communications), Armstrong figuratively dominates the landscape by sweeping his arms over the mountains. Later he inscribes relevant cartographical information...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...and/or locales and sites in the wider world use textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions—to address questions of spatial justice Currently Southern Spaces seeks submissions that engage...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...like the honesty of his approach. ("Mr. Thompson decided to use wishful thinking as his guide," wrote Janet Maslin in the New York Times.) Thompson refers to his task as...

Knoxville, Tennessee images

Knoxville, Tennessee: The Tennessee River from the South Gay Street Bridge Pedestrian A pedestrian trudges up West Main Street toward the Knox County Courthouse. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007...

Old Elementary

...all but vagrant pigeons. The utter childlessness of the playground fronts it, lifeless swings, foot worn furrows beneath, once slick from use, almost closed over, a cicatrix of dandelions and...

Vestibule

...love. I don't just want to thank her for giving me the trump card — "house of worship" — I hold in every stupid party game that begins, "Where's the...

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

...from “Six Yellow Stanzas,” exploring legibility, estrangement, and connections to New Orleans Part 6: Alexander discusses black migration experience in her family, her use of direct address, and reads from “Georgia...

Putting up Beans

...don’t wear aprons much anymore.   Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...

Watching the Surface for a Sign

...Phillips' use of autobiography and family history, investigation of the natural world, and the legacy of white supremacy in Forsyth County. Part 2: Phillips discusses “Brass Knuckles,” ambivalences of place...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...30,896 prisoners, and spent $15,233 to house an inmate for a year, but the fate of those leaving the prison system was pretty much left to chance. A more compassionate...