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...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...since he began this work, but the literary endeavor he developed has enriched the cultural landscape of this conservative former cotton mill town. John Howard, Plásticos, Near Bomb Site #2,...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, and the centennial of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. While we welcome...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...opera house. Potter was the black manager of a segregated poolroom where Clarence Mitchell, a young white liveryman, and a friend had come to play. When they refused to pay,...
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...about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections. We intend our audience to be researchers and teachers, students in and out of classrooms,...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...scholars, and cultural producers to send us their work. To issue a call for contributions to a new Southern Spaces series on racial inequality, social justice, and/or Black experiences. To...