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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Dell, Darlene, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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--Biography--History and criticism.

Autobiographical memory.

Memory in literature.

Southern States--Biography--History and criticism.

Southern States--Race relations--Historiography.

Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre, 1897- Making of a Southerner.

Smith, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966. Killers of the dream.

Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985. Proud shoes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9786613585196

9781280489969

1280489960

9780813921983

0813921988

OCLC:

759159933