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Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930
- Title
- Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 / Koritha Mitchell.
- Author
- Mitchell, Koritha.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xii, 251 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- The new black studies series
- Uniform Title
- New Black studies series.
- Subjects
- Lynching in literature
- Violence in literature
- American drama > 20th century > History and criticism
- Citizenship in literature
- American drama > 19th century > History and criticism
- American drama > African American authors > History and criticism
- One-act plays, American > History and criticism
- African Americans in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : whose evidence? Which account? -- Making lynching drama and its contributions legible -- Scenes and scenarios: reading aright -- Redefining "black theater" -- Developing a genre, asserting black citizenship -- The black soldier: elevating community conversation -- The black lawyer: preserving testimony -- The black mother/wife: negotiating trauma -- The pimp and coward: offering gendered revisions -- Conclusion : documenting black performance: key considerations.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-44
- ISBN
- 9780252036491 (cloth)
- 0252036492 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2011014508
- OCLC
- 714505165
- Author
- Mitchell, Koritha.
- Title
- Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 / Koritha Mitchell.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
- Series
- The new black studies seriesNew Black studies series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-44