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Author:

Mitchell, Koritha.

Title:

Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 / Koritha Mitchell.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American drama--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
American drama--19th century--History and criticism.
One-act plays, American--History and criticism.
Lynching in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Violence in literature.
Citizenship in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Making lynching drama and its contributions legible. Scenes and scenarios : reading aright -- Redefining "black theater" -- Developing a genre, asserting black citizenship. The black soldier : elevating community conversation -- The black lawyer : preserving testimony -- The black mother/wife : negotiating trauma -- The pimp and coward : offering gendered revisions.

Series:

The new black studies series

ISBN:

0252036492 (hc)
9780252036491 (hc)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)714505165

LCCN:

2011014508

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)