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Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Periodical Readerships

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Journal of American Studies, Pages: 1 - 21

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/s0021875824000689

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Recent scholarly interest in Lillian Smith and her controversial best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944) has ignored the importance of the magazine she edited with her partner Paula Snelling, South Today (1936–45). After considering Smith and Snelling's cultivation of an ideal southern literatu...

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ISSN: 0021-8758 1469-5154
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2025
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