LEADER 04056nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910461616703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-60938-103-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000178201 035 $a(EBL)888562 035 $a(OCoLC)785811724 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000634077 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11444456 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000634077 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10640850 035 $a(PQKB)10069428 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC888562 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19448 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL888562 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10554410 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000178201 100 $a20111027d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDemands of the dead$b[electronic resource] $eexecutions, storytelling, and activism in the United States /$fedited by Katy Ryan 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60938-088-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments and Permissions; Introduction - Katy Ryan; Part 1: Words through Walls; My Trip to the Chair - Willie Francis; Living Death: Ernest Gaines's A Lesson before Dying and the Execution of Willie Francis - Jason Stupp; The Sword into a Pen - Steve Champion; Writing with the Condemned: On Editing and Publishing the Work of Steve Champion - Tom Kerr; Leaving Death Row: A Screenplay - Elizabeth Ann Stein; Dead Man's Soap - Rick Stetter; Part 2: History and State Power; Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Four Centuries - H. Bruce Franklin; Poems - Jill McDonough 327 $aDecember 26, 1862: Chaska August 23, 1927: Nicola Sacco; May 3, 1946: Willie Francis; October 9, 2002: Aileen Wuornos; Antigallows Activism in Antebellum American Literature - John Cyril Barton; Electric Sensations and Executions in Gertrude Atherton's Patience Sparhawk and Her Times - Jennifer Leigh Lieberman; Life by Asphyxiation - Kia Corthron; Routines - Anthony Ross; Part 3: Voices and Bodies in Resistance; Jacques Derrida on Pain of Death - Thomas Dutoit; Capital Punishment - Sherman Alexie; Lynching, Embodiment, and Post-1960 African American Poetry - David Kieran 327 $aState Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated - Katy Ryan Rap Sheet of Capitol Crimes: Music, Murder, and Aesthetic States of Terror - Matthew Stratton; Poems - Delbert L. Tibbs; A Poem for No Reason; For Gary Graham, a.k.a. Shaka Sankofa; Death Law; I Need a Poem; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe first work to combine literary criticism with other forms of death penalty-abolitionist writing, Demands of the Dead demonstrates the active importance of literature and literary criticism to the struggle for greater justice in the United States. Gathering personal essays, scholarly articles, and creative writings on the death penalty in American culture, this striking collection brings human voices and literary perspectives to a subject that is often overburdened by statistics and angry polemics. Contributors include death-row prisoners, playwrights, poets, activists, and literature. 606 $aPrisoners' writings, American 606 $aCapital punishment in literature 606 $aExecutions and executioners in literature 606 $aCapital punishment$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPrisoners' writings, American. 615 0$aCapital punishment in literature. 615 0$aExecutions and executioners in literature. 615 0$aCapital punishment$xMoral and ethical aspects 676 $a810.8/09206927 701 $aRyan$b Katy$f1968-$0991485 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461616703321 996 $aDemands of the dead$92269051 997 $aUNINA