The properties of violence [[electronic resource] ] : claims to ownership in representations of lynchings / / Sandy Alexandre
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Alexandre Sandy
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| Titolo: |
The properties of violence [[electronic resource] ] : claims to ownership in representations of lynchings / / Sandy Alexandre
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/896073 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
| Lynching in literature | |
| African Americans in popular culture | |
| Violence in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 photograph |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The properties of violence |
| ISBN: | 1-283-85098-2 |
| 1-62103-042-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462927103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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