Blood at the root
Subtitle: lynching as American cultural nucleus
By: Jennie Lightweis-Goff
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781438436296; 9781438436289
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Self and state : lynching's intimate violence; title: "America is Mississippi now" : the portable South and the exile of Richard Wright; title: Beneath the skin : George Schuyler and the Fantasy of race; title: "Peaceful and unfathomable and unbearable eyes" : William Faulkner's Elisions of witness; title: The lynched woman : Kara Walker, Laura Nelson, and the question of agency; title: Vacant lots : public memory and the practice of forgetting.