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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexandre, Sandy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Violence in literature.
Lynching in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans in popular culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Violence dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la culture populaire.
Lynchage dans la litterature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781621030423

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