Living with lynching [[electronic resource] ] : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 / / Koritha Mitchell
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Mitchell Koritha
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| Titolo: |
Living with lynching [[electronic resource] ] : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 / / Koritha Mitchell
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| Pubblicazione: | Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (271 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 812/.509896073 |
| Soggetto topico: | American drama - African American authors - History and criticism |
| American drama - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| American drama - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| One-act plays, American - History and criticism | |
| Lynching in literature | |
| African Americans in literature | |
| Violence in literature | |
| Citizenship in literature | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | '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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Living with lynching |
| ISBN: | 1-283-58290-2 |
| 9786613895356 | |
| 0-252-09352-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779200003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New Black studies.