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Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 / Koritha Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Koritha.
- Series:
- New Black studies.
- The new black studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- '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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613895356
- 9781283582902
- 1283582902
- 9780252093524
- 0252093526
- OCLC:
- 785781172
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