Gender and lynching
Subtitle: the politics of memory
By: edited by Evelyn M. Simien
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230112704
Subjects: Lynching; Violence against; Lynching in literature; Racism; Lynching in art; African American women; Sexism; Sex differences; Rape; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Evelyn M. Simien; title: Mary Turner, hidden memory, and narrative possibility / Julie Buckner Armstrong; title: Sisters in motherhood (?): the politics of race and gender in lynching drama / Koritha Mitchell; title: The female lynch victim in Post-Reconstruction African American Literature / Barbara McCaskill; title: "A woman was lynched the other day" : Memory, gender, and the limits of traumatic representation / Jennifer D. Williams; title: The politics of sexuality in Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" / Fumiko Sakashita; title: Gender, race, and public space: photography and memory in the Massacre of East Saint Louis and the Crisis Magazine / Anne Rice.