LEADER 03705nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910965503003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781438436302 010 $a1438436300 010 $a9781461906278 010 $a146190627X 035 $a(CKB)2550000000059476 035 $a(OCoLC)756501398 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574175 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000568743 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11353744 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000568743 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10540245 035 $a(PQKB)10042914 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14185 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407313 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574175 035 $a(DE-B1597)683404 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438436302 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407313 035 $a(Perlego)2672710 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000059476 100 $a20100813d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlood at the root $elynching as American cultural nucleus /$fJennie Lightweis-Goff 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (235 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781438436289 311 08$a1438436289 311 08$a9781438436296 311 08$a1438436297 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSelf and state : lynching's intimate violence -- "America is Mississippi now" : the portable South and the exile of Richard Wright -- Beneath the skin : George Schuyler and the Fantasy of race -- "Peaceful and unfathomable and unbearable eyes" : William Faulkner's Elisions of witness -- The lynched woman : Kara Walker, Laura Nelson, and the question of agency -- Vacant lots : public memory and the practice of forgetting. 330 $aIn Blood at the Root, winner of the SUNY Press 2009 Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies, Jennie Lightweis-Goff examines the centrality of lynching to American culture, focusing particularly on the ways in which literature, popular culture, and art have constructed the illusion of secrecy and obsolescence to conceal the memory of violence. Including critical study of writers and artists like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, George Schuyler, and Kara Walker, Lightweis-Goff also incorporates her personal experience in the form of a year-long travelogue of visits to lynching sites. Her research and travel move outside the American South and rural locales to demonstrate the fiction of confining racism to certain areas of the country and the denial of collective responsibility for racial violence. Lightweis-Goff seeks to implicate societal attitude in the actions of the few and to reveal the legacy of violence that has been obscured by more valiant memories in the public sphere. In exploring the ways that spatial and literary texts replace lynching with proclamations of innocence and regret, Lightweis-Goff argues that racial violence is an incompletely erupted trauma of American life whose very hiddenness links the past to still-present practices of segregation and exclusion. 606 $aLynching$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRace relations in literature 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 615 0$aLynching$xHistory. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 676 $a364.1/34 700 $aLightweis-Goff$b Jennie$01814919 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965503003321 996 $aBlood at the root$94369135 997 $aUNINA