03696nam 2200793Ia 450 991045763370332120200520144314.01-283-58290-297866138953560-252-09352-6(CKB)2550000000089163(OCoLC)785781172(CaPaEBR)ebrary10532326(SSID)ssj0000711534(PQKBManifestationID)11428788(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711534(PQKBWorkID)10693845(PQKB)11500107(MiAaPQ)EBC3413854(StDuBDS)EDZ0000927279(MdBmJHUP)muse23664(Au-PeEL)EBL3413854(CaPaEBR)ebr10532326(CaONFJC)MIL389535(OCoLC)923493064(EXLCZ)99255000000008916320110411d2011 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLiving with lynching[electronic resource] African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 /Koritha MitchellUrbana University of Illinois Pressc20111 online resource (271 p.) The new black studies seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-252-07880-2 0-252-03649-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Making lynching drama and its contributions legible. Scenes and scenarios : reading aright -- Redefining "black theater" -- Developing a genre, asserting black citizenship. The black soldier : elevating community conversation -- The black lawyer : preserving testimony -- The black mother/wife : negotiating trauma -- The pimp and coward : offering gendered revisions.'Living with Lynching' demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in periodicals, lynching plays were read aloud or acted out by black church members, schoolchildren, and families. Koritha Mitchell shows that African Americans performed and read the scripts in community settings to certify to each other that lynching victims were not the isolated brutes that dominant discourses made them out to be. Instead, the play scripts often described victims as honourable heads of households being torn from model domestic units by white violence.New Black studies.American dramaAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican drama20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican drama19th centuryHistory and criticismOne-act plays, AmericanHistory and criticismLynching in literatureAfrican Americans in literatureViolence in literatureCitizenship in literatureElectronic books.American dramaAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American dramaHistory and criticism.American dramaHistory and criticism.One-act plays, AmericanHistory and criticism.Lynching in literature.African Americans in literature.Violence in literature.Citizenship in literature.812/.509896073Mitchell Koritha996705MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457633703321Living with lynching2285280UNINA