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Violence from slavery to #BlackLivesMatter : African American history and representation /

Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment. Contributors explore how violence, signifying both an instrument of the white majority's power and a modality of black resis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dix, Andrew, 1960- (Editor ), Templeton, Peter (Lecturer in American literature) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "The zest of sport" : representing slave hunting as sport in the antebellum and Jim Crow eras / Catherine Armstrong
  • "My massa whip me, cause I love you" : violence towards slaves in antebellum Southern literature / Peter Templeton
  • "Monstrous perversions and lying inventions" : Moses Roper's performative resistance to the transatlantic imagination of American slavery / Hannah-Rose Murray
  • "The lynching had to be the best it could be done" : slavery, suffering and spectacle in recent American cinema / Lydia J. Plath
  • Making lynching male : a canon-shaping tendency / Koritha Mitchell
  • Lynching photography and African American melancholia / Cassandra Jackson
  • A necessary undoing : the implications of violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider / Maggie McKinley
  • "The baddest one-chick hit-squad" : Pam Grier, Angela Davis and the politics of female violence in Blaxploitation cinema / Andrew Dix
  • The topos of lyrical gunplay : hip-hop and the process of civilization / Stephan Kuhl
  • Towards a Black prophetic critique of neoliberal state violence : Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the death of Eric Garner / Luvena Kopp
  • Formal violence : the Black Lives Matter movement and contemporary elegy / Gavan Lennon