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  title info:
    title: Lynching in American literature and journalism
  name:
    name part: Hakutani, Yoshinobu
    name part: 1935-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 192 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Lynching in American Literature and Journalism is a collection of historical and critical discussions of lynching in America that reflects the shameful, unmoral policies of lynching. Through twelve essays, this book explores writing about lynching as an American tragedy.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The 'girl-reporter' confronts the lynch mob: Miriam Michelson's A yellow journalist / Debbie Lelekis -- Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff': the development of an aesthetic / Donald Pizer -- Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff,' Richard Wright's 'Big Boy leaves home,' and lynching / Michael Sanders -- Lynching as an American tragedy in Theodore Dreiser's literary works / Kiyohiko Murayama -- Faulkner on lynching / Neil R. McMillen and Noel Polk -- Lynching in Richard Wright's Big Boy leaves home / Toru Kiuchi -- Lynching in modern American short stories and sexual crime in classic myth / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- The southern ritual of lynching in Faulkner's Light in August and Ellison's Three days before the shooting / Robert Butler -- The electric execution of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's Native son / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Lynching as Surrealism: Leon Forrest's "The vision" / Keith Byerman -- Lynching in African American poetry / Toru Kiuchi -- Depictions of racial violence in the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar / Debbie Lelekis.
  note: edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Lynching in literature
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Lynching
    topic: Press coverage
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Racism in literature
  classification: PS169.L95 L95 2022
  classification: 810.9/355
  identifier: 9781666909074
  identifier: 1666909076
  identifier: 9781666909081
  identifier: 2022024139
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220606
    record change date: 20221003202410.4
    record identifier: in00004595512