The properties of violence [[electronic resource] ] : claims to ownership in representations of lynchings / / Sandy Alexandre

• Autore: Alexandre Sandy
• 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
• 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.: 9910816897403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II