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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—May 29, 2012

...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...

The Change

...through the rows to reach the twenty-five gallon jugs of water placed throughout the field to encourage   and   in attempt to satisfy our insatiable thirsts from drinking air...

Rent

...and thick as my thumb, invalid, being fed the house, birthing more of what would keep her fed. When I worried the place would fall, you laughed not in our...

Geography

...More than twenty years gone, he’s come back to see this place, recollect what he’s lost. What he recalls of my childhood is here. We find it in the brambles...

#598, Common Meter

...as an earnest of the place    Has his own Spirit given.   5) “Tis pleasant to believe thy grace,    But we had rather see:    We would be...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...

History: The Parlor

..."including cyclopedias and books of influence," one mahogany upholstered sofa, three wooden rocking chairs, and a sewing machine. The furnishings and their placement in this house was typical for the...