Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray

by Darlene O'Dell

Book Overview

In southern graveyards through the first decades of the twentieth century, the Confederate South was commemorated by tombstones and memorials, in Confederate flags, and in Memorial Day speeches and burial rituals. Cemeteries spoke the language of southern memory, and identity was displayed in ritualistic form--inscribed on tombs, in texts, and in bodily memories and messages. Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray wove sites of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920728
• ISBN13: 9780813920726
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher