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Emmett Till in literary memory and imagination
- Title
- Emmett Till in literary memory and imagination / edited by Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- viii, 262 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Southern literary studies
- Subjects
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Race in literature
- Lynching in literature
- Civil rights movements in literature
- African Americans > Crimes against > Mississippi
- African Americans in literature
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
- American literature > 21st century > History and criticism
- United States > Race relations > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Emmett Till case and narrative[s]: an introduction and overview / Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress -- On that third day he rose: sacramental memory and the lynching of Emmett Till / Christopher Metress -- The murder of Emmett Till in the melodramatic imagination: William Bradford Huie and Vin Packer in the 1950s / Sharon Monteith -- Flesh that needs to be loved: Langston Hughes writing the body of Emmett Till / Myisha Priest -- James Baldwin's unifying polemic: racial segregation, moral integration, and the polarizing figure of Emmett Till / Brian Norman -- Maids mild and dark villains, sweet magnolias and seeping blood: Gwendolyn Brooks's poetic response to the lynching of Emmett Till / Vivian M. May -- It could have been my son: maternal empathy in Gwendolyn Brooks's and Audre Lorde's Till poems / Laura Dawkins -- Silence and the frustration of broken promises: Annie Moody's struggle with the lynching of Emmett Till and the Civil Rights Movement / Kathaleen Amende -- This corpse so small left unavenged: Nicolás Guillén and Aimé Césaire on Emmett Till's lynching / Sylvie Kandé -- Childhood trauma and its reverberations in Bebe Moore Campbell's Your blues ain't like mine / Suzanne W. Jones -- Grotesque laughter, unburied bodies, and history: shape-shifting in Lewis Nordan's Wolf whistle / Harriet Pollack -- (Dis)embodying the Delta blues: Wolf whistle and Your blues ain't like mine / Donnie McMahand -- Literary representations of the lynching of Emmett Till: an annotated bibliography / Christopher Metress.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-7172
- ISBN
- 9780807132814 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807132810 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007021770
- OCLC
- 136783027
- Title
- Emmett Till in literary memory and imagination / edited by Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress.
- Imprint
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
- Series
- Southern literary studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Pollack, Harriet.Metress, Christopher.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-7172