Lynching in American Literature and Journalism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hakutani, Yoshinobu

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lynching 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666909081
• Artikelnr.: 65004338

Autorenporträt

Yoshinobu Hakutani is professor of English emeritus and university distinguished scholar at Kent State University in Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The 'Girl-Reporter' Confronts the Lynch Mob: Miriam
Michaelson's A Yellow Journalist
Debbie Lelekis
Chapter Two: Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff': The Development of an
Aesthetic
Donald Pizer
Chapter Three: Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff,' "Richard Wright's 'Big Boy
Leaves Home,' and Lynching
Michael Sanders
Chapter Four: Lynching as an American Tragedy in Theodore Dreiser's
Literary Works
Kiyohiko Murayama
Chapter Five: Faulkner on Lynching
Neil R. McMillen and Noel Polk
Chapter Six: Lynching in Richard Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home"
Toru Kiuchi
Chapter Seven: "Lynching in Modern American Short Stories and Sexual Crime
in Classic Myth"
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter Eight: The Southern Ritual of Lynching in Faulkner's Light in
August and Ellison's Three Days before the Shooting
Robert Butler
Chapter Nine: The Electric Execution of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's
Native Son
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter Ten: Lynching as Surrealism: Leon Forrest's "The