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Author:
Alexandre, Sandy.
Title:
The properties of violence : claims to ownership in representations of lynching / Sandy Alexandre.
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
xi, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Lynching in literature.
African Americans in popular culture.
Violence in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.
Contents:
Addresses unknown: on location in lynching photographs -- Old haunts: place and terror in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poems -- Strange and forbidden fruits : Richard Wright and lynching's cautionary tales -- Hers and his trees: sharing lynching iconography in Morrison's Beloved -- Mississippi goddam: Emmett Till photographs and geographic identity.
ISBN:
1617036668 (ebook)
9781617036668 (ebook)
161703665X (cloth : alk. paper)
9781617036651 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)786003114
LCCN:
2012014394
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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