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

Artist Repertoire Index

...In Your Close Friend Scott, Cliff (1969) Baby Please Don’t Go John Henry Long Wavy Hair Pole Plattin’ Salty Dog Sweet Old Tampa You Are My Sunshine Thomas, Lonzie (early...

Race

...the story ends: ivory siblings who would not see their brother without their telltale spouses. What a strange thing is "race," and family, stranger still. Here a poem tells a...

Theories of Time and Space

...markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion — dead end at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where rigging of shrimp boats are...

Vestibule

...near the end seemed like rising hymnal rhythm, and let me feel how those forgotten words came from somewhere else and meant something. Something, if only to the single moth...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...century ended, southwestern humor gave shapes and narrative strategies to Mark Twain, providing him with instructive models for contesting the emerging white racist power structure of Post-Reconstruction. Using subversive trickster...