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Sites of Southern Memory : The Autobiographies of Katharine du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray.

O'Dell, Darlene.

Sites of Southern Memory : The Autobiographies of Katharine du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (206 pages)

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1: In Memory Of . . . -- Chapter 2: His "Flower-Strewn Grave" -- Chapter 3: "Forgotten Graves of Memory" -- Chapter 4: "Faces of the Tombstones" -- Epilogue: The Silence of the Graves -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

In this unique study of three women whose literary and personal lives were vitally concerned with southern race relations and the struggle for social justice, O'Dell provides a telling portrait of the troubled intellectual, literary, cultural, and social history of the American South.

9780813921983


Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre, -- 1897- -- Making of a Southerner.
Smith, Lillian Eugenia, -- 1897-1966. -- Killers of the dream.
Murray, Pauli, -- 1910-1985. -- Proud shoes.
American prose literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.


Electronic books.

PS366.A88 -- O33 2001eb

818/.5208099287

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