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Race, rape, and lynching : the red record of American literature, 1890-1912 / Sandra Gunning.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gunning, Sandra, author.
- Series:
- Race and American culture.
- Race and American Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- African Americans in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- Lynching in literature.
- Rape in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in American culture and literature during and after Reconstruction was related to the growth of white-on-black violence, as white lynch mobs acted in ""defense"" of white womanhood, the white family, and white nationalism. In Writing a Red Record Sandra Gunning investigates American literary encounters with the conditions, processes,
- Contents:
- Contents; INTRODUCTION: On Literary Records and Discursive Possibilities; ONE: Re-Membering Blackness After Reconstruction: Race, Rape, and Political Desire in the Work of Thomas Dixon, Jr.; TWO: Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, and the Politics of Literary Anti-Racism; THREE: Black Women and White Terrorism: Ida B. Wells, David Bryant Fulton, Pauline E. Hopkins, and the Politics of Representation; FOUR: Rethinking White Female Silences: Kate Chopin's Local Color Fiction and the Politics of White Supremacy; AFTERWORD: Cultural Memories and Critical Inventions; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C
- DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-45164-5
- 0-19-535665-9
- 0-19-509990-7
- 1-60256-074-9
- OCLC:
- 935227161
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