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The Properties of Violence : Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching /

The Properties of Violence focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those representations. Alexandre compellingly shows how putting representations of lynching in dialogue with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Alexandre, Sandy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Properties of Violence focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those representations. Alexandre compellingly shows how putting representations of lynching in dialogue with the history of lynching uncovers the profound investment of African American literature--as an enterprise that continually seeks to create conceptual spaces for the disenfranchised culture it represents--in matters of property and territory. Through studies ranging from lynching photographs to Toni.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781621030423