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Living with lynching [[electronic resource] ] : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 / / Koritha Mitchell



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Autore: Mitchell Koritha Visualizza persona
Titolo: Living with lynching [[electronic resource] ] : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 / / Koritha Mitchell Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-58290-2
9786613895356
0-252-09352-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457633703321
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Serie: New Black studies.