Gender and lynching : the politics of memory / edited by Evelyn M. Simien.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Simien, Evelyn M., 1974-
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
Lynching > Sex differences > United States > History.
African American women > Violence against > History.
Rape > United States > History.
Lynching in literature.
Lynching in art.
Sexism > United States > History.
Racism > United States > History.
Physical Description:xiv, 184 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Evelyn M. Simien
  • Mary Turner, hidden memory, and narrative possibility / Julie Buckner Armstrong
  • Sisters in motherhood (?): the politics of race and gender in lynching drama / Koritha Mitchell
  • The female lynch victim in Post-Reconstruction African American Literature / Barbara McCaskill
  • "A woman was lynched the other day" : Memory, gender, and the limits of traumatic representation / Jennifer D. Williams
  • The politics of sexuality in Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" / Fumiko Sakashita
  • Gender, race, and public space: photography and memory in the Massacre of East Saint Louis and the Crisis Magazine / Anne Rice.