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Witnessing Lynching : American Writers Respond by Anne Rice (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-100813533309
ISBN-139780813533308
eBay Product ID (ePID)2342618
Product Key Features
Number of Pages336 Pages
Publication NameWitnessing Lynching : American Writers Respond
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
SubjectDiscrimination & Race Relations, General, American / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorAnne Rice
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight26 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-000228
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal810.8/355
Table Of ContentIllustrationsForeword: Passing, Lynching, and Jim Crow, by Michele WallaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Contest over Memory1889-1900Charles W. Chesnutt "The Sheriff's Children" (1889)Frederick Douglass "Lynch Law in the South" (1892)Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "An Appeal to My Countrywomen" (1896)Ida B. Wells-Bamett Excerpt from Mob Rule in New Orleans (1900)Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins "Will Smith's Defense of His Race," from Contending Forces (1900)1901-1910Susie Baker King Taylor "Thoughts on the Present Conditions," from Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902)Alice French (Octave Thanet) "Beyond the Limit" (1903)Paul Laurence Dunbar "The Haunted Oak" (1903) and "The Lynching of Jube Benson" (1904)Mary Church Terrell Excerpt from "Lynching from a Negro's Point of View" (1904)Sutton E. Griggs "The Blaze," from The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist (1905)W.E.B. Du Bois "A Litany at Atlanta" (1906)Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer "Jim Crow Cars" (1907)1911-1920Bertha Johnston "I Met a Little Blue-Eyed Girl" (1912)James Weldon Johnson Excerpt from The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) and "Brothers" (1916)French Wilson "Jimmy" (1914) 135"The Waco Horror" Supplement to the Crisis, July 1916 141Theodore Dreiser "Nigger Jeff" (1918) 151Carl Sandburg Excerpts from The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919 (1919) and "Man, the Man-Hunter" (1920) 171Mary Powell Burrill Aftermath (1919) 178Claude McKay "If We Must Die" (1919) and "The Lynching" (1922) 188Angelina Weld Grimke "Goldie" (1920) 1911921-1930William Pickens Excerpt from Lynching and Debt Slavery (1921) 209Leslie Pinckney Hill "So Quietly" (1921) 216Carrie Williams Clifford "The Black Draftee from Dixie" (1922) 218Countee Cullen "Christ Recrucified" (1922) 220Langston Hughes "The South" (1922) 223Jean Toomer "Portrait in Georgia" and "Blood-Burning Moon" (1923) 226Anne Spencer "White Things" (1923) 235Floyd J. Calvin "The Present South" (1923) 237Robert Bagnal "The Unquenchable Fire" (1924) 240Lola Ridge "Morning Ride" (1927) 247Angelina Weld Grimke "Tenebris" (1927) 251Walter Francis White "I Investigate Lynchings" (1929) 2521931-1935Sterling Brown "He Was a Man" (1932) and "Let Us Suppose" (1935) 263Langston Hughes "Christ in Alabama" (1932) 268Nancy Clara Cunard Excerpt from "Scottsboro-and Other Scottsboros" (1934) 270Esther Popel "Flag Salute" (1934) 282Erskine Caldwell "Kneel to the Rising Sun" (1935) 284Richard Wright "Between the World and Me" (1935) 304Bibliography 307Permissions 313Index 315
SynopsisWitnessing 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., 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
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