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A spectacular secret : lynching in American life and literature

Title
A spectacular secret : lynching in American life and literature / Jacqueline Goldsby.
Author
Goldsby, Jacqueline Denise.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
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Description
418 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • African Americans in literature > History
  • Lynching > United States > History
  • Lynching > United States > Historiography
  • Lynching in literature
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • United States > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-406) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
Sc E 06-1163
ISBN
  • 0226301370 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226301389 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005026551
  • 9780226301372
OCLC
61731276
Author
Goldsby, Jacqueline Denise.
Title
A spectacular secret : lynching in American life and literature / Jacqueline Goldsby.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-406) and index.
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