Gruesome Looking Objects: A New History of Lynching and Everyday Things

ISBN-13: 9781316514023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Elijah Gaddis

Opis

This original and provocative study uses objects—made, collected, and imagined—to examine lynching and racial terror.

Recenzje

'Gruesome Looking Objects offers a rich analysis of the material culture surrounding racist violence. Through a case study of one lynching, Gaddis deftly demonstrates how the ordinary objects used in and generated from a lynching served to normalize atrocity and embed it in everyday life. This is an innovative and smart book.' Amy Louise Wood, author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: Fragments; 1. The Article; 2. The Letter; 3. The Clothes; 4. The Tree; 5. The Hammer and Chisel; 6. The Song; Conclusion: Archival Remains.