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

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...

A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave

...2014, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/01/steve-mcqueen-armond-white-controversy.html. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, White refers to himself as "the strongest voice that exists in contemporary criticism," and claims that several influential New York film...

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

Introduction Bruce West's images represent daily life suddenly and massively interrupted — a family's scattered snapshots in a vacant house; a ruined organ in the wreckage of a church; a...

Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy

...Each Other Online," Splinter News, July 19, 2016, https://splinternews.com/before-grindr-and-scruff-a-brief-oral-history-of-gay-m-1793860384. Furthermore, both how we make those digital-intimate connections and how we might use digital technology in the service of our scholarship is a...

Shadows along the Waccamaw

...His poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Backwards City Review, and Southeast Review. Interview with...

Naming Each Place

Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...