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Witnessing Lynching : American Writers Respond by Anne Rice (2003, Library Binding)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-100813533295
ISBN-139780813533292
eBay Product ID (ePID)2340609
Product Key Features
Number of Pages336 Pages
Publication NameWitnessing Lynching : American Writers Respond
LanguageEnglish
SubjectDiscrimination & Race Relations, American / General
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
AuthorAnne Rice
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
FormatLibrary Binding
Dimensions
Item Weight31.1 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2003-000228
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal810.8/355
Synopsis"Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond" is the first anthology to gather poetry, essays, drama, and fiction from the height of the lynching era (1889 1935). During this time, the torture of a black person drew thousands of local onlookers and was replayed throughout the nation in lurid newspaper reports. The selections gathered here represent the courageous efforts of American writers to witness the trauma of lynching and to expose the truth about this uniquely American atrocity. Included are well-known authors and activists such as Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Ida B. Wells, and Theodore Dreiser, as well as many others. These writers respond to lynching in many different ways, using literature to protest and educate, to create a space of mourning in which to commemorate and rehumanize the dead, and as a cathartic release for personal and collective trauma. Their words provide today s reader with a chance to witness lynching and better understand the current state of race relations in America. An introduction by Anne P. Rice offers a broad historical and thematic framework to ground the selections.", Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond is the first anthology to gather poetry, essays, drama, and fiction from the height of the lynching era (1889-1935). During this time, the torture of a black person drew thousands of local onlookers and was replayed throughout the nation in lurid newspaper reports. The selections gathered here represent the courageous efforts of American writers to witness the trauma of lynching and to expose the truth about this uniquely American atrocity. Included are well-known authors and activists such as Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Ida B. Wells, and Theodore Dreiser, as well as many others. These writers respond to lynching in many different ways, using literature to protest and educate, to create a space of mourning in which to commemorate and rehumanize the dead, and as a cathartic release for personal and collective trauma. Their words provide today's reader with a chance to witness lynching and better understand the current state of race relations in America. An introduction by Anne P. Rice offers a broad historical and thematic framework to ground the selections.
LC Classification NumberPS509.L94W58 2003
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