Introduction -- The 'girl-reporter' confronts the lynch mob: Miriam Michelson's A yellow journalist / Debbie Lelekis -- Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff': the development of an aesthetic / Donald Pizer -- Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff,' Richard Wright's 'Big Boy leaves home,' and lynching / Michael Sanders -- Lynching as an American tragedy in Theodore Dreiser's literary works / Kiyohiko Murayama -- Faulkner on lynching / Neil R. McMillen and Noel Polk -- Lynching in Richard Wright's Big Boy leaves home / Toru Kiuchi -- Lynching in modern American short stories and sexual crime in classic myth / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- The southern ritual of lynching in Faulkner's Light in August and Ellison's Three days before the shooting / Robert Butler -- The electric execution of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's Native son / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Lynching as Surrealism: Leon Forrest's "The vision" / Keith Byerman -- Lynching in African American poetry / Toru Kiuchi -- Depictions of racial violence in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar / Debbie Lelekis.
Summary:
"Lynching in American Literature and Journalism is a collection of historical and critical discussions of lynching in America that reflects the shameful, unmoral policies of lynching. Through twelve essays, this book explores writing about lynching as an American tragedy"-- Provided by publisher.
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