Lynching in American Literature and Journalism

Lynching in American Literature and Journalism

Hakutani, Yoshinobu; Murayama, Kiyohiko; Hakutani, Yoshinobu; Lelekis, Debbie; Kiuchi, Toru; Polk, Noel; McMillen, Neil R.; Pizer, Donald; Butler, Robert; Byerman, Keith

Lexington Books

08/2022

200

Dura

Inglês

9781666909074

15 a 20 dias

476

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: The 'Girl-Reporter' Confronts the Lynch Mob: Miriam Michaelson's A Yellow Journalist

Debbie Lelekis

Chapter Two: Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff': The Development of an Aesthetic

Donald Pizer

Chapter Three: Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff,' "Richard Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home,' and Lynching

Michael Sanders

Chapter Four: Lynching as an American Tragedy in Theodore Dreiser's Literary Works

Kiyohiko Murayama

Chapter Five: Faulkner on Lynching

Neil R. McMillen and Noel Polk

Chapter Six: Lynching in Richard Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home"

Toru Kiuchi

Chapter Seven: "Lynching in Modern American Short Stories and Sexual Crime in Classic Myth"

Yoshinobu Hakutani

Chapter Eight: The Southern Ritual of Lynching in Faulkner's Light in August and Ellison's Three Days before the Shooting

Robert Butler

Chapter Nine: The Electric Execution of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's Native Son

Yoshinobu Hakutani

Chapter Ten: Lynching as Surrealism: Leon Forrest's "The Vision"

Keith Byerman

Chapter Eleven: "Lynching in African American Poetry

Toru Kiuchi

Chapter Twelve: Depictions of Racial Violence in the Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Debbie Lelekis

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american history;american literature;historical lynchings;lynching in journalism;lynching in literature