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

Inside Poor Monkey's

...magazine’s Japan edition. Newspapers from the Memphis Commercial Appeal to the New York Times have published descriptions and photos. The floor plan of the lounge has been analyzed as an...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia. It's true crime that thoughtfully, and critically, examines Appalachia as a place, real and imagined. Carol Anderson, Southern Spaces editorial board...

Victoria

https://vimeo.com/1127164201 Introduction to Victoria I first met Ms. Victoria Jewelle reflected in the bathroom mirror in front of me, slowly applying layers of makeup, constructing a face. She loaded a...

Remnants of Flannery

...and deeply religious worldview. Whittled down to a two-word sound bite appropriate to the age of Twitter, O'Connor's work might be described as peacock grotesque or grotesque peacockian, if one...

The Colonialist's Gaze

...this pose in other photographs, sometimes appearing repeatedly in the same panorama (a result of pasting adjacent views together) and multiplying his gaze indefinitely.   "A native peon's shack," annotated...

"Little Switzerland"

"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...

A Southern Underground Railroad

...to the example of Hercules, who "offers a map for navigating the full spectrum of the landscape for Black people in revolutionary Savannah" (54). Hercules faced any number of options...