Gender and Lynching: The Politics of Memory
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1349294632 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The essays in Evelyn Simien's anthology take a practice almost universally gendered as male - and therefore one in which gender has been almost invisible - and recasts it as primarily gendered. "By examining the various roles that women, mostly black but some white, played in the history of lynching, the collection does well to expose and emend the gender and racial bias of our visual cognition." - Signs"This volume brings black women to the fore, as victims, martyrs, and heroes, as characters in works of literature and art, as agents, activists, and mythmak
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EVELYN M. SIMIEN Associate Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut, USA.
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.