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Violence from slavery to #BlackLivesMatter : African American history and representation / edited by Andrew Dix and Peter Templeton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African americans in the arts.
- African Americans in art.
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- African Americans--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- Summary:
- Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment. Contributors explore how violence, signifying both an instrument of the white majority's power and a modality of black resistance, has been understood and articulated in primary materials that range from slave narrative through "lynching plays" and Richard Wright's fiction to contemporary activist poetry, and from photography of African American suffering through Blaxploitation cinema and Spike Lee's films to rap lyrics and performances. Diverse both in their period coverage and their choice of medium for discussion, the11 essays are unified by a shared concern to unpack violence's multiple meanings for black America. Underlying the collection, too, is not only the desire to memorialize past moments of black American suffering and resistance, but, in politically timely fashion, to explore their connections to our current conjuncture.
- Contents:
- Introduction: African American History, Violence and Problems of Representation Andrew Dix PART 1: THE VIOLENCES OF SLAVERY "The Zest of Sport": Representing Slave Hunting as Sport in the Antebellum and Jim Crow Eras Catherine Armstrong 2 "My massa whip me, cause I love you": Violence towards Slaves in Antebellum Southern Literature Peter Templeton 3 "Monstrous Perversions and Lying Inventions": Moses Roper's Performative Resistance to the Transatlantic Imagination of American Slavery Hannah-Rose Murray 4 "The lynching had to be the best it could be done": Slavery, Suffering and Spectacle in Recent American Cinema Lydia J. Plath PART 2: FROM CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS 5 Making Lynching Male: A Canon-Shaping Tendency Koritha Mitchell 6 Lynching Photography and African American Melancholia Cassandra Jackson 7 A Necessary Undoing: The Implications of Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider Maggie McKinley PART 3: FROM BLAXPLOITATION TO #BLACK LIVES MATTER 8 "The baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad": Pam Grier, Angela Davis and the Politics of Female Violence in Blaxploitation Cinema Andrew Dix 9 The Topos of Lyrical Gunplay: Hip-Hop and the Process of Civilization Stephan Kuhl 10 Towards a Black Prophetic Critique of Neoliberal State Violence: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the Death of Eric Garner Luvena Kopp 11 Formal Violence: The Black Lives Matter Movement and Contemporary Elegy Gavan Lennon
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-000-73288-6
- 1-000-73260-6
- 0-429-34268-3
- 9780429342684
- OCLC:
- 1128095753
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