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Articles, essays, and opinions from & about the New South.
Southern Lit Presents: Susan Archer Talley Weiss
Single Mother, Spy, and Seductress Women of the 19th century were often elusive, enigmatic figures, as their roles stayed confined to the walls of of the home. In the 19th century, men typically dominated the public sphere while their female counterparts remained...
Tell A Million Tales of Y’all Means All
Media with a Mission Karma is a confusing word to Westerners, and it’s really baffling to Southerners. If they’re willing to make the cosmic leap that it is exists as a foundational truth of the world, then they have a tough time articulating what it is or how it...
The Good Witch of the South
The Voodoo Queen of Southern Hearts Today is Halloween! Celebration commences this evening with folks of all ages and backgrounds dressing up as ghouls, ghosts, goblins, and the monsters under your childhood bed. Some folks festoon their porches and doorways with...
Southern Lit Presents: Saeed Jones
Poetry Wears an Evening Gown Poetry never needed the delicacies of gentle, metaphorical language often associated with its genre. One poem requires only the amount of words necessary to get the point across—a point often open-ended and left up to the reader’s...
Jesus’s Suicide
The Body of Christ Self-Crucifixion In 1736, six months after he landed in Savannah, Georgia at the invitation of General Oglethorpe, the Reverend John Wesley, the English theologian, wrote in his journal, “I came to convert the Indians, but, oh, who will...
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