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  • Critical Essays on the Writings of Lillian Smith

    Edición de Tanya Long Bennett ...
    Contributions by Tanya Long Bennett, David Brauer, Cameron Williams Crawford, Emily Pierce Cummins, April Conley Kilinski, Justin Mellette, and Wendy Kurant RollinsAs a white woman of means living in segregated Georgia in the first half of the twentieth century, Lillian Smith (1897–1966) surprised readers with stories of mixed-race love affairs, mob attacks on “outsiders,” and young female campers ... Leer más

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  • Going to the Territory

    de Ralph Ellison ...
    Series series Vintage International
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    The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America

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  • The Dialectic of Freedom

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    Performing Identity

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