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Demands of the Dead : Executions, Storytelling, and Activism in the United States /
"The first work to combine literary criticism with other forms of death penalty-abolitionist writing, Demands of the Dead demonstrates the active importance of literature and literary criticism to the struggle for greater justice in the United States. Gathering personal essays, scholarly articl...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments and Permissions; Introduction
- Katy Ryan; Part 1: Words through Walls; My Trip to the Chair
- Willie Francis; Living Death: Ernest Gaines's A Lesson before Dying and the Execution of Willie Francis
- Jason Stupp; The Sword into a Pen
- Steve Champion; Writing with the Condemned: On Editing and Publishing the Work of Steve Champion
- Tom Kerr; Leaving Death Row: A Screenplay
- Elizabeth Ann Stein; Dead Man's Soap
- Rick Stetter; Part 2: History and State Power; Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Four Centuries
- H. Bruce Franklin; Poems
- Jill McDonough.
- December 26, 1862: ChaskaAugust 23, 1927: Nicola Sacco; May 3, 1946: Willie Francis; October 9, 2002: Aileen Wuornos; Antigallows Activism in Antebellum American Literature
- John Cyril Barton; Electric Sensations and Executions in Gertrude Atherton's Patience Sparhawk and Her Times
- Jennifer Leigh Lieberman; Life by Asphyxiation
- Kia Corthron; Routines
- Anthony Ross; Part 3: Voices and Bodies in Resistance; Jacques Derrida on Pain of Death
- Thomas Dutoit; Capital Punishment
- Sherman Alexie; Lynching, Embodiment, and Post-1960 African American Poetry
- David Kieran.
- State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated
- Katy RyanRap Sheet of Capitol Crimes: Music, Murder, and Aesthetic States of Terror
- Matthew Stratton; Poems
- Delbert L. Tibbs; A Poem for No Reason; For Gary Graham, a.k.a. Shaka Sankofa; Death Law; I Need a Poem; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index.