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

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...

Dirty Little Story

...days of work. You would need gloves, a mask and a backhoe. This public beach seems emblematic of all that is wrong with American culture. On the one hand, you...

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:...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...a deliberately disruptive way." Interestingly, Gray uses this description of the genre in a book called Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (2000) and...