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Blood at the Root: Lynching as American Cultural Nucleus Contributor(s): Lightweis-Goff, Jennie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438436297 ISBN-13: 9781438436296 Publisher: State University of New York Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | United States - General |
Dewey: 364.134 |
LCCN: 2010032064 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" L (0.95 lbs) 231 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index |
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 112 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Blood at the Root, winner of the SUNY Press 2009 Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies, Jennie Lightweis-Goff examines the centrality of lynching to American culture, focusing particularly on the ways in which literature, popular culture, and art have constructed the illusion of secrecy and obsolescence to conceal the memory of violence. Including critical study of writers and artists like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, George Schuyler, and Kara Walker, Lightweis-Goff also incorporates her personal experience in the form of a year-long travelogue of visits to lynching sites. Her research and travel move outside the American South and rural locales to demonstrate the fiction of confining racism to certain areas of the country and the denial of collective responsibility for racial violence. Lightweis-Goff seeks to implicate societal attitude in the actions of the few and to reveal the legacy of violence that has been obscured by more valiant memories in the public sphere. In exploring the ways that spatial and literary texts replace lynching with proclamations of innocence and regret, Lightweis-Goff argues that racial violence is an incompletely erupted trauma of American life whose very hiddenness links the past to still-present practices of segregation and exclusion. |
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