The Other Reconstruction: Where Violence and Womanhood Meet in the Writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nella Larsen

ISBN-13: 9780815334958 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 176 str.

Erick Miller; Erica M. Miller

Opis

Miller (no credentials noted) examines the literary treatment of lynching in several Reconstruction-era texts. The writers considered describe the economic, political, and social factors contributing to race violence, and present a re-conceptualized view of womanhood. In so doing, they challenge st

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Telling Stories: IdaB. Wells-Barnett’s Southern Horrors, Chapter 2 Before the Rope and Fire: Ida B. Wells-Bamett’s A Red Record and Mob Rule in New Orleans Chapter 3 The Fly in the Buttermilk, or The Legacy of Margaret Garner: Despair, Agency, and Retaliation in Angelina Weld Grimk6’s Birth Control Stories, Chapter 4 Passing As and Passing On: Memory and Mobility from James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man to Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing, Chapter 5 Conclusion: High-Tech Lynchings

O autorze

Ericka L. Miller