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Blood at the root

Lightweis-Goff, Jennie.

Blood at the root lynching as American cultural nucleus / [electronic resource] : Jennie Lightweis-Goff. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (256 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Self and state : lynching's intimate violence -- "America is Mississippi now" : the portable South and the exile of Richard Wright -- Beneath the skin : George Schuyler and the Fantasy of race -- "Peaceful and unfathomable and unbearable eyes" : William Faulkner's Elisions of witness -- The lynched woman : Kara Walker, Laura Nelson, and the question of agency -- Vacant lots : public memory and the practice of forgetting.

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Race relations in literature.
Lynching--History.--United States


United States--Race relations.


Electronic books.

HV6457 / .L54 2011

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