Gender and lynching: the politics of memory

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. EVELYN M. SIMIEN Associate Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut, USA. INDICE: Introduction; Evelyn M. Simien - Mary Turner, Hidden Memory, and Narrative Possibility; Julie Buckner Armstrong - Sisters in Motherhood (?): ThePolitics 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11270-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 198
• Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés