Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir
Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston
Feminism and liberalism in autobiographical writings of six women of the American South
Description
This study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston. Here their memoirs are placed within a context of southern feminism and the more inclusive discourse of modern American liberalism.