Lillian Smith

How Am I to Be Heard? (eBook, ePUB)

Letters of Lillian Smith
Redaktion: Gladney, Margaret Rose

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897–1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century. Smith devoted her life to lifting the veil of southern self-deception about race, class, gender, and sexuality. Her books, essays, and especially her letters explored the ways in which the South’s attitudes and institutions perpetuated a dehumanizing experience for all its people — white and black, male and female, rich and poor. Her best-known books are Strange Fruit (1944), a bestselling interracial love story that brought her international acclaim; and Killers of the Dream (1949), an autobiographical critique of southern race relations that angered many southerners, including powerful moderates. Subsequently, Smith was effectively silenced as a writer. Rose Gladney has selected 145 of Smith’s 1500 extant letters for this volume. Arranged chronologically and annotated, they present a complete picture of Smith as a committed artist and reveal the burden of her struggles as a woman, including her lesbian relationship with Paula Snelling. Gladney argues that this triple isolation — as woman, lesbian, and artist — from mainstream southern culture permitted Smith to see and to expose southern prejudices with absolute clarity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781469620343
• Artikelnr.: 53956729

Autorenporträt

Margaret Rose Gladney is associate professor of American studies at the University of Alabama.