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

Catastrophe and Hope: Martyn Bone’s The Writings of Jesmyn Ward

...26, 2018, https://time.com/5349517/jesmyn-ward-my-true-south/  In Ward’s autobiographical writing, descriptions of Mississippi manifesting global social and economic systems are then followed with ruminations on her particular experience.9In “My True South,” Mississippi is, for Ward, family,...

Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces

...2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/same-sex-intimacy-fiction-about-southern-plantations. Chenault, Wesley, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr. "Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces." Southern Spaces, February 26, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/discursive-memorials-queer-histories-atlantas-public-spaces. Chesnut, Saralyn, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth...

Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects

...2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/highlighting-charlestons-african-american-history-through-lowcountry-digital-history-initiative. Bransford, Steve, Michael Page, and Anthony Martin. "St. Catherines Island Flyover." Southern Spaces, July 14, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/st-catherines-island-flyover. Hagood, Taylor. "The Digital Yoknapawtawpha Project." Southern Spaces, January 22, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/digital-yoknapatawpha-project....

How I Shed My Skin

Presentation and Review https://vimeo.com/134247004?fl=ls&fe=ec Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks...

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

Introduction Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 10, 2005. Photograph by Brian Gauvin. Coded markings indicate the structural instability of this home in the Lower Ninth Ward, washed from...