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We Shall Pave the Way: Willa Cather and Lillian Smith's Aesthetics of Civil Rights Politics

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From: The Arizona Quarterly
Date: 20040101
Author:Lewis, Nghana

The artist spends a lifetime in loving the things that haunt him, in having his mind 'teased' by them, in trying to get these conceptions down on paper exactly as they are to him and not in conventional poses supposed to reveal their character.

Willa Cather

Moments of sudden vision came over me . . . and I wrote with immense passion.

Lillian Smith

THIS ESSAY EXAMINES THE NOVELS of two modern southern women writers who have never been read in juxtaposition with one another, probably because of what Terry Eagleton has termed the "disabling idea of aesthetic autonomy," that is, the notion that ...

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