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How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith (Gender and American Culture)
Lillian Smith
How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith (Gender and American Culture)
Lillian Smith
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.
Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
Lançado | 5 de fevereiro de 1996 |
ISBN13 | 9780807845806 |
Editoras | The University of North Carolina Press |
Páginas | 406 |
Dimensões | 150 × 230 × 20 mm · 603 g |
Idioma | English |
Contribuidor | Margaret Rose Gladney |
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