Gender and Lynching

The Politics of Memory
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-11270-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simien, Evelyn M

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Evelyn M. Simien Mary Turner, Hidden Memory, and Narrative Possibility; Julie Buckner Armstrong Sisters in Motherhood (?): The Politics of Race and Gender in Lynching Drama; Koritha Mitchell The Female Lynch Victim in Post-Reconstruction African American Literature; Barbara McCaskill "A Woman was Lynched the Other Day": Memory, Gender, and the Limits of Traumatic Representation; Jennifer D. Williams The Politics of Sexuality in Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"; Fumiko Sakashita Gender, Race, and Public Space: Photography and Memory in the Massacre of East Saint Louis and the Crisis Magazine; Anne Rice

Über Autor(innen)

EVELYN M. SIMIEN Associate Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut, USA.