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

The Black Belt

...https://www.loc.gov/resource/stereo.1s02973/ Six generations of African American women in Selma, Alabama, ca. 1893. Photograph by R.W. Harrison. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c04928/ Pro-slavery secessionist sentiment...

The Liminal Site

...the start, and quite unavoidably (given the glory of the site), I imagined my garden as site-specific art, a celebration of both place and space. What I wanted—my wife, far...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...of Robert Penn Warren, finally placing both Warren and Styron in the tradition of the slave narrative. Styron's first novel, Lie Down in Darkness (1951), has been understood as being...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...the enslaved. She spoke about how they emerged from the hull of the ship in complete darkness, after months at sea, disoriented, terrified, and unable to communicate with their captors...