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

Writing Appalachia

...focusing instead on what John Alexander Williams calls "core" Appalachia—that is, the southern mountains as defined by Campbell and others.17John Alexander Williams, Appalachia: A History (2002), 13. Aside from the...

Genres of Southern Literature

...and "Southern," the literatures that are categorized within these separate concepts of "flowerings" share many of the same historical contingencies. One has only to read John Crowe Ransom's "Antique Harvesters" and...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

Interview Southern Spaces: How did you begin the project that became this remarkable documentary The Joneses? https://vimeo.com/390791326 The Joneses Trailer. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. John Howard: Jheri (at the...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...

Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

...income, but then switched to the less cinematically interesting (and for some critics, less symmetrically ironic) work of a telephone lineman because it paid better and was less dangerous. As...