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

Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism

...regional writing outside of the context of its original publication and reception.1"Regional writing" is the received critical vocabulary for the literature Hardwig treats. See, for instance, Stephanie Foote's Regional Fictions:...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

Introduction One night in the spring of 2006, I found myself on the edges of Richmond, Virginia’s Shockoe Bottom neighborhood with a group of reluctant adolescents from my church youth...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...Carolina. Gravestone attributed to the Bigham workshop. But on his way to the Cherokee country Richardson had acted at the direction of the presbytery to install the Reverend Alexander Craighead...

Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980

...accessed December 31, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baSgYQtkTSI&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=RiceUniversity. This animation was also displayed at Houston's Heritage Society in 2015 as part of the six month installation "Throughout: Houston's GLBT History." https://vimeo.com/485557485 This time-lapse...

And the Prize Goes to...

...scholarly writing. Students worked with Allison Wright—who sifts through some nine thousand online submissions each year as the managing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review—to develop an early-semester workshop on strategies and...

Religion and the US South

...Preacher, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ca. 1844. Lithograph by P.S. Duval. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Collection, www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g04543/. During the era of Reconstruction many Blacks joined northern-based...