Gender and Lynching [electronic resource] : The Politics of Memory /
Simien, Evelyn M.author.
Simien, Evelyn M.,1974-
The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Evelyn M. Simien -- Mary Turner, hidden memory, and narrative possibility / Julie Buckner Armstrong -- Sisters in motherhood (?) : the politics of race and gender in lynching drama / Koritha Mitchell -- The antislavery roots of African American women's antilynching literature, 1895-1920 / Barbara McCaskill -- "A woman was lynched the other day" : memory, gender, and the limits of traumatic representation / Jennifer D. Williams -- The politics of sexuality in Billie Holiday's "Strange fruit" / Fumiko Sakashita -- Gender, race, and public space : photography and memory in the massacre of East Saint Louis and the Crisis Magazine / Anne Rice.
The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism.
United States-History.
Sociology.
Ethnicity.
America-Literatures.
African Americans.
America-History.
US History.
Gender Studies.
Ethnicity Studies.
North American Literature.
African American Culture.
History of the Americas.