{"product_id":"how-am-i-to-be-heard","title":"How Am I to Be Heard?","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eStrange Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e (1944), a bestselling interracial love story that brought her international acclaim; and \u003ci\u003eKillers of the Dream\u003c\/i\u003e (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.","brand":"Longleaf on behalf of Univ of N. Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52653438665071,"sku":"9780807845806","price":371.06,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/how-am-i-to-be-heard","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}