Spectacular Secret Lynching in American Life and Literature

Name: Spectacular Secret Lynching in American Life and Literature
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ISBN: 9780226301389

ISBN-10: 0226301389

ISBN-13: 9780226301389

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jacqueline Goldsby

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This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life--the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. Jacqueline Goldsby shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics. Rather, lynching--a highly visible form of social violence that has historically been shrouded in secrecy--was in fact a fundamental part of the national consciousness whose cultural logic played a pivotal role in the making of American modernity. To pursue this argument, Goldsby traces lynching's history by taking up select mob murders and studying them together with…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Jacqueline Goldsby is a professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University.



List of Illustrations


Introduction



A Sign of the Times: Lynching and Its Cultural Logic



Writing "Dynamitically": Ida B. Wells



"The Drift of the Public Mind": Stephen Crane



Lynching's Mass Appeal and the "Terrible Real": James Weldon Johnson



Through a Different Lens: Lynching Photography at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century



In the Mind's Eye


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index