UID:
almahu_9949385930602882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780429342684
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0429342683
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9781000732603
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1000732606
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9781000732740
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1000732746
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9781000732887
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1000732886
Content:
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
Note:
"The zest of sport" : representing slave hunting as sport in the antebellum and Jim Crow eras /
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"My massa whip me, cause I love you" : violence towards slaves in antebellum Southern literature /
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"Monstrous perversions and lying inventions" : Moses Roper's performative resistance to the transatlantic imagination of American slavery /
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"The lynching had to be the best it could be done" : slavery, suffering and spectacle in recent American cinema /
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Making lynching male : a canon-shaping tendency /
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Lynching photography and African American melancholia /
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A necessary undoing : the implications of violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider /
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"The baddest one-chick hit-squad" : Pam Grier, Angela Davis and the politics of female violence in Blaxploitation cinema /
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The topos of lyrical gunplay : hip-hop and the process of civilization /
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Towards a Black prophetic critique of neoliberal state violence : Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the death of Eric Garner /
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Formal violence : the Black Lives Matter movement and contemporary elegy /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Violence from slavery to #BlackLivesMatter. New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 ISBN 9780367359096
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429342684
