By Margaret Rose Gladney,Lisa Hodgens

ISBN-10: 0820349984

ISBN-13: 9780820349985

ISBN-10: 0820349992

ISBN-13: 9780820349992

As a author and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) was once an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights circulate. From her domestic on previous Screamer Mountain overlooking Clayton, Georgia, Smith wrote and spoke overtly opposed to racism, segregation, and Jim Crow legislation lengthy ahead of the civil rights era.

Bringing jointly brief tales, lectures, essays, op-ed items, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and nonfiction, A Lillian Smith Reader deals the 1st entire number of her paintings and a compelling advent to at least one of the South’s most crucial writers.

A conservatory-trained track instructor who left the occupation to imagine cost of her family’s ladies’ camp in Rabun County, Georgia, Smith begun her literary careerwriting for a magazine that she coedited along with her lifelong spouse, Paula Snelling, successively titled Pseudopodia (1936), the North Georgia overview (1937–41), and South Today (1942–45). recognized at the present time for her arguable, best-selling novel, Strange Fruit (1944); her number of autobiographical essays, Killers of the Dream (1949); and her lyrical documentary, Now Is the Time (1955), Smith was once acclaimed and derided in equivalent measures as a southern white liberal who critiqued her culture’s fiscal, political, and non secular associations as dehumanizing for all: white and black, female and male, wealthy and negative. She used to be additionally a common and eloquent contributor to periodicals comparable to the Saturday Review, LIFE, the New Republic, the Nation, and the New York Times.

The impression of Smith’s oeuvre extends some distance past those guides. Her legacy rests on her feel of social justice, her articulation of racial and social inequities, and her demanding situations to the established order. of their totality, her works suggest a imaginative and prescient of justice and human knowing that we have got but to achieve.

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