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Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 / Koritha Mitchell.
Van Pelt Library PS338.N4 M455 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Koritha.
- Series:
- New Black studies series
- The new black studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- American drama--African American authors.
- American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- American drama--19th century--History and criticism.
- One-act plays, American--History and criticism.
- One-act plays, American.
- Lynching in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- Citizenship in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction : whose evidence? which account?
- 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
- Conclusion : documenting black performance: key considerations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252036491
- 0252036492
- OCLC:
- 714505165
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