Blood at the Root

Name: Blood at the Root
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 9781438436289
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Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus

Autor: Jennie Lightweis-Goff

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: State University of New York Press

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Examines the relationship of lynching to black and white citizenship in the 19th and 20th century U....

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Autor

Jennie Lightweis-Goff

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2011

strony

231

EAN

9781438436289

Enbook ID

04794805

Wydawca

State University of New York Press

Waga

326

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 15

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Examines the relationship of lynching to black and white citizenship in the 19th and 20th century U.S. through a focus on historical, visual, cultural, and literary texts.

In Blood at the Root, winner of the SUNY Press 2009 Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies, Jennie Lightweis-Goff examines the centrality of lynching to American culture, focusing particularly on the ways in which literature, popular culture, and art have constructed the illusion of secrecy and obsolescence to conceal the memory of violence. Including critical study of writers and artists like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, George Schuyler, and Kara Walker, Lightweis-Goff also incorporates her personal experience in the form of a year-long travelogue of visits to lynching sites. Her research and travel move outside the American South and rural locales to demonstrate the fiction of confining racism to certain areas of the country and the denial of collective responsibility for racial violence. Lightweis-Goff seeks to implicate societal attitude in the actions of the few and to reveal the legacy of violence that has been obscured by more valiant memories in the public sphere. In exploring the ways that spatial and literary texts replace lynching with proclamations of innocence and regret, Lightweis-Goff argues that racial violence is an incompletely erupted trauma of American life whose very hiddenness links the past to still-present practices of segregation and exclusion.

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