Sites of Southern Memory : The Autobiographies of Katharine du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray.
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TextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (206 pages)Content type: - text
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- 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
- 818/.5208099287
- PS366.A88 -- O33 2001eb
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.
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