This book brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment of Black Lives Matter.
This book brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment of Black Lives Matter.
Andrew Dix is Lecturer in American Literature and Film in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, UK. Peter Templeton is Honorary Fellow at Loughborough University, UK, teaching both in the School of the Arts, English and Drama and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Introduction: African American History, Violence and Problems of Representation Andrew Dix PART I: THE VIOLENCES OF SLAVERY 1. "The Zest of Sport": Representing Slave Hunting as Sport in the Antebellum and Jim Crow Eras Catherine Armstrong 2 "My massa whip me, cause I love you": Violence towards Slaves in Antebellum Southern Literature Peter Templeton 3 "Monstrous Perversions and Lying Inventions": Moses Roper's Performative Resistance to the Transatlantic Imagination of American Slavery Hannah-Rose Murray 4 "The Lynching Had to Be the Best It Could Be Done": Slavery, Suffering and Spectacle in Recent American Cinema Lydia J. Plath PART II: FROM CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS 5 Making Lynching Male: A Canon-Shaping Tendency Koritha Mitchell 6 Lynching Photography and African American Melancholia Cassandra Jackson 7 A Necessary Undoing: The Implications of Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider Maggie McKinley PART III: FROM BLAXPLOITATION TO #BLACK LIVES MATTER 8 "The baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad": Pam Grier, Angela Davis and the Politics of Female Violence in Blaxploitation Cinema Andrew Dix 9 The Topos of Lyrical Gunplay: Hip-Hop and the Process of Civilization Stephan Kuhl 10 Towards a Black Prophetic Critique of Neoliberal State Violence: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the Death of Eric Garner Luvena Kopp 11 Formal Violence: The Black Lives Matter Movement and Contemporary Elegy Gavan Lennon
Introduction: African American History, Violence and Problems of Representation Andrew Dix PART I: THE VIOLENCES OF SLAVERY 1. "The Zest of Sport": Representing Slave Hunting as Sport in the Antebellum and Jim Crow Eras Catherine Armstrong 2 "My massa whip me, cause I love you": Violence towards Slaves in Antebellum Southern Literature Peter Templeton 3 "Monstrous Perversions and Lying Inventions": Moses Roper's Performative Resistance to the Transatlantic Imagination of American Slavery Hannah-Rose Murray 4 "The Lynching Had to Be the Best It Could Be Done": Slavery, Suffering and Spectacle in Recent American Cinema Lydia J. Plath PART II: FROM CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS 5 Making Lynching Male: A Canon-Shaping Tendency Koritha Mitchell 6 Lynching Photography and African American Melancholia Cassandra Jackson 7 A Necessary Undoing: The Implications of Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider Maggie McKinley PART III: FROM BLAXPLOITATION TO #BLACK LIVES MATTER 8 "The baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad": Pam Grier, Angela Davis and the Politics of Female Violence in Blaxploitation Cinema Andrew Dix 9 The Topos of Lyrical Gunplay: Hip-Hop and the Process of Civilization Stephan Kuhl 10 Towards a Black Prophetic Critique of Neoliberal State Violence: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the Death of Eric Garner Luvena Kopp 11 Formal Violence: The Black Lives Matter Movement and Contemporary Elegy Gavan Lennon
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