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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811472403321

Autore

O'Dell Darlene <1962->

Titolo

Sites of southern memory : the autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray / / Darlene O'Dell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University Press of Virginia, 2001

ISBN

1-280-48996-0

9786613585196

0-8139-2198-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

818/.5208099287

Soggetti

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

American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Women - Southern States - Biography - History and criticism

African American women - History and criticism

Autobiographical memory

Memory in literature

Southern States Biography History and criticism

Southern States Race relations Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-179) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.