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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