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Demands of the dead [[electronic resource] ] : executions, storytelling, and activism in the United States / / edited by Katy Ryan
| Demands of the dead [[electronic resource] ] : executions, storytelling, and activism in the United States / / edited by Katy Ryan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.8/09206927 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RyanKaty <1968-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Prisoners' writings, American
Capital punishment in literature Executions and executioners in literature Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-60938-103-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments and Permissions; Introduction - Katy Ryan; Part 1: Words through Walls; My Trip to the Chair - Willie Francis; Living Death: Ernest Gaines's A Lesson before Dying and the Execution of Willie Francis - Jason Stupp; The Sword into a Pen - Steve Champion; Writing with the Condemned: On Editing and Publishing the Work of Steve Champion - Tom Kerr; Leaving Death Row: A Screenplay - Elizabeth Ann Stein; Dead Man's Soap - Rick Stetter; Part 2: History and State Power; Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Four Centuries - H. Bruce Franklin; Poems - Jill McDonough
December 26, 1862: Chaska August 23, 1927: Nicola Sacco; May 3, 1946: Willie Francis; October 9, 2002: Aileen Wuornos; Antigallows Activism in Antebellum American Literature - John Cyril Barton; Electric Sensations and Executions in Gertrude Atherton's Patience Sparhawk and Her Times - Jennifer Leigh Lieberman; Life by Asphyxiation - Kia Corthron; Routines - Anthony Ross; Part 3: Voices and Bodies in Resistance; Jacques Derrida on Pain of Death - Thomas Dutoit; Capital Punishment - Sherman Alexie; Lynching, Embodiment, and Post-1960 African American Poetry - David Kieran State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated - Katy Ryan Rap Sheet of Capitol Crimes: Music, Murder, and Aesthetic States of Terror - Matthew Stratton; Poems - Delbert L. Tibbs; A Poem for No Reason; For Gary Graham, a.k.a. Shaka Sankofa; Death Law; I Need a Poem; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461616703321 |
| Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Demands of the dead [[electronic resource] ] : executions, storytelling, and activism in the United States / / edited by Katy Ryan
| Demands of the dead [[electronic resource] ] : executions, storytelling, and activism in the United States / / edited by Katy Ryan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.8/09206927 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RyanKaty <1968-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Prisoners' writings, American
Capital punishment in literature Executions and executioners in literature Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects - United States |
| ISBN | 1-60938-103-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments and Permissions; Introduction - Katy Ryan; Part 1: Words through Walls; My Trip to the Chair - Willie Francis; Living Death: Ernest Gaines's A Lesson before Dying and the Execution of Willie Francis - Jason Stupp; The Sword into a Pen - Steve Champion; Writing with the Condemned: On Editing and Publishing the Work of Steve Champion - Tom Kerr; Leaving Death Row: A Screenplay - Elizabeth Ann Stein; Dead Man's Soap - Rick Stetter; Part 2: History and State Power; Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Four Centuries - H. Bruce Franklin; Poems - Jill McDonough
December 26, 1862: Chaska August 23, 1927: Nicola Sacco; May 3, 1946: Willie Francis; October 9, 2002: Aileen Wuornos; Antigallows Activism in Antebellum American Literature - John Cyril Barton; Electric Sensations and Executions in Gertrude Atherton's Patience Sparhawk and Her Times - Jennifer Leigh Lieberman; Life by Asphyxiation - Kia Corthron; Routines - Anthony Ross; Part 3: Voices and Bodies in Resistance; Jacques Derrida on Pain of Death - Thomas Dutoit; Capital Punishment - Sherman Alexie; Lynching, Embodiment, and Post-1960 African American Poetry - David Kieran State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated - Katy Ryan Rap Sheet of Capitol Crimes: Music, Murder, and Aesthetic States of Terror - Matthew Stratton; Poems - Delbert L. Tibbs; A Poem for No Reason; For Gary Graham, a.k.a. Shaka Sankofa; Death Law; I Need a Poem; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790280903321 |
| Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Demands of the dead : executions, storytelling, and activism in the United States / / edited by Katy Ryan
| Demands of the dead : executions, storytelling, and activism in the United States / / edited by Katy Ryan |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.8/09206927 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | RyanKaty <1968-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Prisoners' writings, American
Capital punishment in literature Executions and executioners in literature Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects - United States |
| ISBN | 1-60938-103-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments and Permissions; Introduction - Katy Ryan; Part 1: Words through Walls; My Trip to the Chair - Willie Francis; Living Death: Ernest Gaines's A Lesson before Dying and the Execution of Willie Francis - Jason Stupp; The Sword into a Pen - Steve Champion; Writing with the Condemned: On Editing and Publishing the Work of Steve Champion - Tom Kerr; Leaving Death Row: A Screenplay - Elizabeth Ann Stein; Dead Man's Soap - Rick Stetter; Part 2: History and State Power; Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Four Centuries - H. Bruce Franklin; Poems - Jill McDonough
December 26, 1862: Chaska August 23, 1927: Nicola Sacco; May 3, 1946: Willie Francis; October 9, 2002: Aileen Wuornos; Antigallows Activism in Antebellum American Literature - John Cyril Barton; Electric Sensations and Executions in Gertrude Atherton's Patience Sparhawk and Her Times - Jennifer Leigh Lieberman; Life by Asphyxiation - Kia Corthron; Routines - Anthony Ross; Part 3: Voices and Bodies in Resistance; Jacques Derrida on Pain of Death - Thomas Dutoit; Capital Punishment - Sherman Alexie; Lynching, Embodiment, and Post-1960 African American Poetry - David Kieran State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated - Katy Ryan Rap Sheet of Capitol Crimes: Music, Murder, and Aesthetic States of Terror - Matthew Stratton; Poems - Delbert L. Tibbs; A Poem for No Reason; For Gary Graham, a.k.a. Shaka Sankofa; Death Law; I Need a Poem; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816650803321 |
| Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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