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How Am I to Be Heard?: Letters of Lillian Smith
ISBN: 9780807845806 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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...
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...
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A Lillian Smith Reader
ISBN: 9780820349985 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897 1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement. From her home on Old Screamer Mountain overlooking Clayton, Georgia, Smith wrote and spoke openly against racism, segregation, and Jim Crow laws long before the civil rights era. Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and nonfiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a... As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897 1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an e... |
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A Lillian Smith Reader
ISBN: 9780820349992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897 1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement. From her home on Old Screamer Mountain overlooking Clayton, Georgia, Smith wrote and spoke openly against racism, segregation, and Jim Crow laws long before the civil rights era. Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and nonfiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a... As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897 1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an e... |
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151,56 zł |
Fear Not the Fall/Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light
ISBN: 9781588381613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In three dozen poems and a two-act play, MacArthur Fellow Billie Jean Young honors the tradition of struggle, resistance, and survival common to generations of women descended from African slaves. The tradition she dramatizes in her acclaimed portrayal of Fannie Lou Hamer (here for the first time in book form)-the tradition of making a way out of no way-is the same tradition she celebrates in remembering her mother's "rub-board hands." Her poetry also reveals the often hidden costs of resistance. In this collection Young celebrates her personhood as well as her African American womanhood and...
In three dozen poems and a two-act play, MacArthur Fellow Billie Jean Young honors the tradition of struggle, resistance, and survival common to gener...
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60,49 zł |