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

The Bulletin—September 21, 2012

...week the Georgia Secretary of State announced that the Georgia State Archives would close effective November 1, 2012. A great deal of protest followed this announcement, including letters from the American...

Glocal Lounge

...imaginary of the US small town contributes to the ideology of American empire, author Ryan Poll offers a quick overview of the term: At the conclusion of his canonical essay,...

Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects

...Modes of Resistance: A Review of Hypercities." Southern Spaces, September 15, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/spatial-humanities-and-modes-resistance-review-hypercities. Battle, Mary. "Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative." Southern Spaces, October 6,...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...years with the increasingly terse genre categories of writing: Chick Lit, Grunge Lit, or speaking of the American South, Grit Lit. I have to admit deep suspicion of easy taxonomy....

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Black Issues Book Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Bum...

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

...a PhD student in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. His research interests include twentieth-century southern culture, documentary film production, and NASCAR's impact on contemporary American culture....

Birdhouses

Introduction When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space1Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (New York:...