Date of Award
5-14-2021
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Gina Caison
Second Advisor
Paul Schmidt
Third Advisor
Renee Schatteman
Abstract
While scholarship on Lillian Smith and her works has increased in recent years, there is a lack in variety when it comes to how scholars discuss her work. In the same vein, no one has discussed Smith as a critical theorist in her own right despite her analysis of the U.S. South in Killers of the Dream. This thesis argues for re-examining Smith as an unrecognized critical theorist of the twentieth century by analyzing Killers of the Dream. It also explores Smith’s theories in relation to that of Michel Foucault’s and what her theories regarding structural racism add to Foucault’s discussion of biopolitics, state racism, and governmentality in his lectures.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/22629462
Recommended Citation
Pierce, Emily, "Lillian Smith's Killers of the Dream and Michel Foucault: Structural Racism, Critical Theory, and the U.S. South." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2021.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/22629462
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