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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

Review Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism opens with an arresting photographic image: nineteenth-century local colorist Mary Noailles Murfree, author of In the Tennessee Mountains, a collection of purportedly "authentic" sketches, sits...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...in the world, the people in Central Appalachia, including those near my home in the southern West Virginia coalfields, are among the poorest people in the United States. Poverty rates...