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BL
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726120
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b545852
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| Main Entry
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[edited by] Evelyn M. Simien.
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| Title & Author
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Gender and lynching : : the politics of memory\ [edited by] Evelyn M. Simien.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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(xiv, 184 pages) : illustrations
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| ISBN
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1137001224
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: 1349294632
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: 9781137001221
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: 9781349294633
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| Contents
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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 antislavery roots of African American women's antilynching literature, 1895-1920 / 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.
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| Abstract
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The authors probe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism.
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| Subject
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African American women -- Violence against -- United States -- History.
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Lynching -- Sex differences -- United States -- History.
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Rape -- United States -- History.
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| LC Classification
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HV6457.E358 2011
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| Added Entry
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Evelyn M Simien
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