Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mitchell, Koritha
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2011.
Series:	New Black studies series.
Subjects:	Citizenship in literature. Violence in literature. African Americans in literature. Lynching in literature. One-act plays, American > History and criticism. American drama > 19th century > History and criticism. American drama > 20th century > History and criticism. American drama > African American authors > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Making lynching drama and its contributions legible. Scenes and scenarios : reading aright
Redefining "black theater"
Developing a genre, asserting black citizenship. The black soldier : elevating community conversation
The black lawyer : preserving testimony
The black mother/wife : negotiating trauma
The pimp and coward : offering gendered revisions.