Violence from slavery to #BlackLivesMatter African American history and representation / edited by Andrew Dix and Peter Templeton.
| Other author | Dix, Andrew, 1960- |
| Other author | Templeton, Peter (Lecturer in American literature) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020] |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "The zest of sport" : representing slave hunting as sport in the antebellum and Jim Crow eras / Catherine Armstrong -- "My massa whip me, cause I love you" : violence towards slaves in antebellum Southern literature / Peter Templeton -- "Monstrous perversions and lying inventions" : Moses Roper's performative resistance to the transatlantic imagination of American slavery / Hannah-Rose Murray -- "The lynching had to be the best it could be done" : slavery, suffering and spectacle in recent American cinema / Lydia J. Plath -- Making lynching male : a canon-shaping tendency / Koritha Mitchell -- Lynching photography and African American melancholia / Cassandra Jackson -- A necessary undoing : the implications of violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider / Maggie McKinley -- "The baddest one-chick hit-squad" : Pam Grier, Angela Davis and the politics of female violence in Blaxploitation cinema / Andrew Dix -- The topos of lyrical gunplay : hip-hop and the process of civilization / Stephan Kuhl -- Towards a Black prophetic critique of neoliberal state violence : Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the death of Eric Garner / Luvena Kopp -- Formal violence : the Black Lives Matter movement and contemporary elegy / Gavan Lennon |
| Abstract | Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment. Contributors explore how violence, signifying both an instrument of the white majority's power and a modality of black resistance, has been understood and articulated in primary materials that range from slave narrative through "lynching plays" and Richard Wright's fiction to contemporary activist poetry, and from photography of African American suffering through Blaxploitation cinema and Spike Lee's films to rap lyrics and performances. Diverse both in their period coverage and their choice of medium for discussion, the11 essays are unified by a shared concern to unpack violence's multiple meanings for black America. Underlying the collection, too, is not only the desire to memorialize past moments of black American suffering and resistance, but, in politically timely fashion, to explore their connections to our current conjuncture |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Print version record |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Violence from slavery to #BlackLivesMatter. New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 9780367359096 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021761806 |
| ISBN | 9780429342684 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0429342683 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781000732603 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
| ISBN | 1000732606 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
| ISBN | 9781000732740 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket) |
| ISBN | 1000732746 (electronic bk. ; Mobipocket) |
| ISBN | 9781000732887 (electronic bk. ; EPUB) |
| ISBN | 1000732886 (electronic bk. ; EPUB) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| Stock number | 9780429342684 Taylor & Francis |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |