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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexandre, Sandy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Lynching in literature.

African Americans in popular culture.

Violence in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-85098-2

1-62103-042-3

OCLC:

819380118