- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Strange fruit
- Creator:
- Clayton, Bruce
- Date of Original:
- 2002-07-03
- Subject:
- Books--United States
Fiction
Love stories, American
Interracial dating--United States
Racism in literature
Race discrimination in literature - People:
- Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the novel Strange Fruit. In hindsight, the controversy that greeted the publication of Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit in 1944 seems unusually heated today. This novel of interracial love was denounced in many places for its "obscenity," although sex is barely mentioned. Massachusetts banned it for a short time; so did the U.S. Post Office. But the book has had many admirers in the years since its publication. It was a commercial success--a best-seller, a Broadway play briefly--and it remains in print in many languages. From her home atop Old Screamer Mountain near Clayton, in Rabun County, Smith knew that many of her neighbors had bought the book, but in public they snubbed her.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/strange-fruit/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Strange Fruit," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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