Blood at the root : lynching as American cultural nucleus / Jennie Lightweis-Goff.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lightweis-Goff, Jennie
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Lynching > United States > History.
United States > Race relations.
Race relations in literature.
Physical Description:xiv, 217 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Self and state : lynching's intimate violence
  • "America is Mississippi now" : the portable South and the exile of Richard Wright
  • Beneath the skin : George Schuyler and the Fantasy of race
  • "Peaceful and unfathomable and unbearable eyes" : William Faulkner's Elisions of witness
  • The lynched woman : Kara Walker, Laura Nelson, and the question of agency
  • Vacant lots : public memory and the practice of forgetting.