Research Catalog

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

• Metress, Christopher
• Pollack, Harriet.

Description

viii, 262 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Southern literary studies

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Southern literary studies.

Subject

• African Americans > Crimes against > Mississippi
• African Americans in literature
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• American literature > 21st century > History and criticism
• Civil rights movements in literature
• Lynching in literature
• Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• Race in literature
• Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
• United States > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780807132814 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0807132810 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007021770

OCLC

136783027

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library