Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination /

The horrific 1955 slaying of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till marks a significant turning point in the history of American race relations. An African American boy from Chicago, Till was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta when he was accused of "wolf-whistling" at a young white woman....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Metress, Christopher, Pollack, Harriet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Till, Emmett > Motiv > Literatur > USA.
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955.
Literatur > USA > Motiv > Rasse.
Rasse > Motiv > Literatur > USA.
Literatur > USA > Motiv > Till, Emmett.
Race relations.
Race in literature.
Politics and literature.
Lynching in literature.
Civil rights movements in literature.
American literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Crimes against.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Race dans la litterature.
Politique et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Crimes contre > Mississippi.
Lynchage dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme dans la litterature.
African Americans > Crimes against > Mississippi.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Mississippi.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Emmett Till case and narrative[s]: an introduction and overview / Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress
  • On that third day he rose: sacramental memory and the lynching of Emmett Till / Christopher Metress
  • The murder of Emmett Till in the melodramatic imagination: William Bradford Huie and Vin Packer in the 1950s / Sharon Monteith
  • Flesh that needs to be loved: Langston Hughes writing the body of Emmett Till / Myisha Priest
  • James Baldwin's unifying polemic: racial segregation, moral integration, and the polarizing figure of Emmett Till / Brian Norman
  • Maids mild and dark villains, sweet magnolias and seeping blood: Gwendolyn Brooks's poetic response to the lynching of Emmett Till / Vivian M. May
  • It could have been my son: maternal empathy in Gwendolyn Brooks's and Audre Lorde's Till poems / Laura Dawkins
  • Silence and the frustration of broken promises: Annie Moody's struggle with the lynching of Emmett Till and the Civil Rights Movement / Kathaleen Amende
  • This corpse so small left unavenged: Nicolás Guillen and Aime Cesaire on Emmett Till's lynching / Sylvie Kande
  • Childhood trauma and its reverberations in Bebe Moore Campbell's Your blues ain't like mine / Suzanne W. Jones
  • Grotesque laughter, unburied bodies, and history: shape-shifting in Lewis Nordan's Wolf whistle / Harriet Pollack
  • (Dis)embodying the Delta blues: Wolf whistle and Your blues ain't like mine / Donnie McMahand
  • Literary representations of the lynching of Emmett Till: an annotated bibliography / Christopher Metress.

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