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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Alexandre, Sandy
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Addresses Unknown: On Location in Lynching Photographs; 2. Old Haunts: Place and Terror in Paul Laurence Dunbar's Poems; 3. Strange and Forbidden Fruits: Richard Wright and Lynching's Cautionary Tales; 4. Hers and His Trees: Sharing Lynching Iconography in Morrison's Beloved; 5. Mississippi Goddam: Emmett Till Photographs and Geographic Identity; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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