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A Lillian Smith Reader (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820349985)
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xAs a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement. From her home on Old Screamer Mountain overlooking Clayton, Georgia, Smith wrote and spoke openly against racism, segregation, and Jim Crow laws long before the civil rights era.
Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and nonfiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a compelling introduction to one of the South's most important writers. A conservatory-trained music teacher who left the profession to assume charge of her family's girls' camp in Rabun County, Georgia, Smith began her literary careerwriting for a journal that she coedited with her lifelong companion, Paula Snelling, successively titled Pseudopodia (1936), the North Georgia Review (1937-41), and South Today (1942-45). Known today for her controversial, best-selling novel, Strange Fruit (1944); her collection of autobiographical essays, Killers of the Dream (1949); and her lyrical documentary, Now Is the Time (1955), Smith was acclaimed and derided in equal measures as a southern white liberal who critiqued her culture's economic, political, and religious institutions as dehumanizing for all: white and black, male and female, rich and poor. She was also a frequent and eloquent contributor to periodicals such as the Saturday Review, LIFE, the New Republic, the Nation, and the New York Times. The influence of Smith's oeuvre extends far beyond these publications. Her legacy rests on her sense of social justice, her articulation of racial and social inequities, and her challenges to the status quo. In their totality, her works propose a vision of justice and human understanding that we have yet to achieve.Author: Margaret Rose Gladney
ISBN-10: 0820349984
ISBN-13: 9780820349985
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2016
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2016 pg. 85
By Margaret Rose Gladney
xLillian Smith (Author)
LILLIAN SMITH (1897-1966) was a writer, teacher, lecturer, and civil rights activist. Born in Florida, Smith spent much of her life in Georgia. She is the author of seven books, including Killers of the Dream, Strange Fruit, and One Hour, and was also the founding editor of the magazine South Today. Margaret Rose Gladney (Editor)
MARGARET ROSE GLADNEY is professor emerita of American Studies at the University of Alabama. Lisa Hodgens (Editor)
LISA HODGENS is a professor of English at Piedmont College.
LILLIAN SMITH (1897-1966) was a writer, teacher, lecturer, and civil rights activist. Born in Florida, Smith spent much of her life in Georgia. She is the author of seven books, including Killers of the Dream, Strange Fruit, and One Hour, and was also the founding editor of the magazine South Today. Margaret Rose Gladney (Editor)
MARGARET ROSE GLADNEY is professor emerita of American Studies at the University of Alabama. Lisa Hodgens (Editor)
LISA HODGENS is a professor of English at Piedmont College.
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