A Spectacular Secret Lynching in American Life and Literature【電子書籍】[ Jacqueline Goldsby ]

＜p＞This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national lifeーthe history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. Jacqueline Goldsby shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics. Rather, lynchingーa highly visible form of social violence that has historically been shrouded in secrecyーwas in fact a fundamental part of the national consciousness whose cultural logic played a pivotal role in the making of American modernity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞To pursue this argument, Goldsby traces lynching's history by taking up select mob murders and studying them together with key literary works. She focuses on three prominent authorsーIda B. Wells-Barnett, Stephen Crane, and James Weldon Johnsonーand shows how their own encounters with lynching influenced their analyses of it. She also examines a recently assembled archive of evidenceーlynching photographsーto show how ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る