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

Congregation

...at last there was work, he got a job, on the beach, as a watcher. Behind safety goggles, he watched the sand for bones, searched for debris that clogged the...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...world: Diff'rent Strokes, What's Happening!!, Sanford and Son, Do the Right Thing, even Toni Morrison's Beloved: "We keep the name—it's so totally, invitingly postracial—but make the eponymous ghost more Casper-like."2Colson Whitehead, "The Year of Living...

Encountering COVID

...piling up food and toilet paper. After our agricultural season ended, a lot of our farmworkers migrated to California, particularly Salinas, San Joaquin, Santa Maria. Then we started hearing about...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...poetic qualities of Ariel's Ecology. Leonora Sansay's travelogue, Secret History (1808), and a novel sometimes attributed to her, Zelica (1820) (in which the Haitian revolutionary Henri Christophe sets Saint-Domingue's capital...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...with Dr. Henry Norton Torrey and Nell Ford Torrey, and ending with their daughter, Eleanor Torrey ("Sandy") West. The Torreys oversaw the building of a large home for themselves, as...