{"product_id":"lynching-in-american-literature-and-journalism-9781666909074","title":"Lynching in American Literature and Journalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve essays investigating the history and development of writing about lynching as an American tragedy and the ugliest element of national character. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 European Americans. More than 73 percent of the lynchings in the Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. The Lynchings increased dramatically in the aftermath of the Reconstruction, after slavery had been abolished and free men gained the right to vote. The peak of lynching occurred in 1882, after Southern white Democrats had regained control of the state legislators. This book is a collection of historical and critical discussions of lynching in America that reflects the shameful, unmoral policies, and explores the topic of lynching within American history, literature, and journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important and timely collection explores diverse representations of lynching in twentieth-century American literature, including fiction and poetry by Dreiser, Faulkner, Wright, Dunbar, Ellison, Miriam Michelson, Leon Forrest, and others. The distinguished roster of contributors considers how, in different ways, creative writers transcended the limitations of conventional journalism that excluded reports of racial violence. An invaluable contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship in American, African American, and modernist studies.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Anita Patterson, Boston University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: The ‘Girl-Reporter’ Confronts the Lynch Mob: Miriam Michaelson’s A Yellow Journalist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebbie Lelekis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Theodore Dreiser’s ‘Nigger Jeff’: The Development of an Aesthetic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald Pizer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Theodore Dreiser’s ‘Nigger Jeff,’ “Richard Wright’s ‘Big Boy Leaves Home,’ and Lynching\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Sanders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Lynching as an American Tragedy in Theodore Dreiser’s Literary Works\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKiyohiko Murayama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Faulkner on Lynching\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeil R. McMillen and Noel Polk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Lynching in Richard Wright’s ‘Big Boy Leaves Home”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToru Kiuchi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: “Lynching in Modern American Short Stories and Sexual Crime in Classic Myth”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoshinobu Hakutani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: The Southern Ritual of Lynching in Faulkner’s Light in August and Ellison’s Three Days before the Shooting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Butler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: The Electric Execution of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright’s Native Son\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoshinobu Hakutani\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Lynching as Surrealism: Leon Forrest’s “The Vision”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith Byerman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: “Lynching in African American Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToru Kiuchi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: Depictions of Racial Violence in the Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebbie Lelekis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042004697431,"sku":"9781666909074","price":69.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lynching-in-american-literature-and-journalism-9781666909074","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}