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

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...short, as there are additional long narrow strips pieced in on both shorter ends. Narcissa chose new materials for the visible front of the quilt and recycled fabric for the...

No Place

...Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 (1991), S/HE (1995), Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999), and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems (2003). Pratt's lecture "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do...

Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects

...and imagined spaces and places make connections and comparisons between southern regions and/or locales and sites in the wider world use textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions—to...

Audio Transcript

"It Will Be Alright" by John P. Kee and The New Life Community Choir. From Wait on Him (1989). [Choir] ♪ It will be alright! ♪   [Kee] ♪ It...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

Video and Essay Searcy County. A short video by Noam Osband, 2012. Searcy County is a sparsely populated area in the Ozark region on US Highway 65 between Little Rock,...

Shadows along the Waccamaw

...Natasha Trethewey In these excerpts from an interview conducted in Atlanta, Georgia, on 30 August, 2008, Dan Albergotti talks with Natasha Trethewey about the new internet journal Waccamaw, his experiences growing...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...docile acceptance of incarceration—then the human agency of suicide can constitute struggle and can be equated with resistance. In the continuing, complex relationship between reportage and resistance in the concentration...