Emmett Till in literary memory and imagination / edited by Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress.
Uniform Title: | Southern literary studies.
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Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2008], ©2008.
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Series: | Southern literary studies.
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Physical Description: | viii, 262 pages ; 23 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The Emmett Till case and narrative[s]: an introduction and overview / Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress
- On that third day he rose: sacramental memory and the lynching of Emmett Till / Christopher Metress
- The murder of Emmett Till in the melodramatic imagination: William Bradford Huie and Vin Packer in the 1950s / Sharon Monteith
- Flesh that needs to be loved: Langston Hughes writing the body of Emmett Till / Myisha Priest
- James Baldwin's unifying polemic: racial segregation, moral integration, and the polarizing figure of Emmett Till / Brian Norman
- Maids mild and dark villains, sweet magnolias and seeping blood: Gwendolyn Brooks's poetic response to the lynching of Emmett Till / Vivian M. May
- It could have been my son: maternal empathy in Gwendolyn Brooks's and Audre Lorde's Till poems / Laura Dawkins
- Silence and the frustration of broken promises: Annie Moody's struggle with the lynching of Emmett Till and the Civil Rights Movement / Kathaleen Amende
- This corpse so small left unavenged: Nicolás Guillén and Aimé Césaire on Emmett Till's lynching / Sylvie Kandé
- Childhood trauma and its reverberations in Bebe Moore Campbell's Your blues ain't like mine / Suzanne W. Jones
- Grotesque laughter, unburied bodies, and history: shape-shifting in Lewis Nordan's Wolf whistle / Harriet Pollack
- (Dis)embodying the Delta blues: Wolf whistle and Your blues ain't like mine / Donnie McMahand
- Literary representations of the lynching of Emmett Till: an annotated bibliography / Christopher Metress.