03137nam 2200637 a 450 991081689740332120230801225722.01-283-85098-21-62103-042-3(CKB)2670000000308267(EBL)1074094(OCoLC)819380118(SSID)ssj0000784072(PQKBManifestationID)11432837(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784072(PQKBWorkID)10761894(PQKB)10019391(StDuBDS)EDZ0000203668(MiAaPQ)EBC1074094(OCoLC)786003199(MdBmJHUP)muse24784(Au-PeEL)EBL1074094(CaPaEBR)ebr10634395(CaONFJC)MIL416348(EXLCZ)99267000000030826720120416d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe properties of violence[electronic resource] claims to ownership in representations of lynchings /Sandy AlexandreJackson University Press of Mississippic20121 online resource (248 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61703-665-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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 photographAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismLynching in literatureAfrican Americans in popular cultureViolence in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Lynching in literature.African Americans in popular culture.Violence in literature.810.9/896073Alexandre Sandy1689194MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816897403321The properties of violence4064048UNINA