Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 (Race and American Culture) - Hardcover

Gunning, Sandra

 
9780195099904: Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 (Race and American Culture)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195099907 ISBN 13: 9780195099904
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1996

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Exposes the literary stereotypes that fuel white-on-black violence

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Sandra Gunning is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the College of William and Mary.

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Looking at the work of Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Thomas Dixon, David Bryant Fulton, Pauline Hopkins, Mark Twain, and Ida B. Wells, Sandra Gunning examines a range of writers who contributed to the national renegotiation and redefinition of the terms and boundaries of a national dialogue on race, gender, and lynching. In doing so, she argues for a clearer analysis of the issues that were mediated by the figure of the black rapist: namely differing national and community concerns about the black family, black women and rape, white female agency, and black as well as white masculinity as very different, but equally embattled cultural and social positions. Taken together, Gunning argues, these concerns signify the tangle of race and gender which characterized nineteenth century literature on lynching. Race, Rape, and Lynching, the newest addition to the Race and American Culture series, offers the most in-depth discussion on the interplay between sexuality and race in nineteenth-century American literature. In particular, Gunning's focus on the literary strategies of women writers in addressing issues of rape and lynching widens the lens through which we see this volatile period in American history and culture. The book is certain to interest readers across disciplines, including literary, African-American, and women studies.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195099907
ISBN 13 
9780195099904
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
208
Herausgeber
Gunning Sandra
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