Remembering Medgar Evers - Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement

Informationen zum Autor MINROSE GWIN is the Kenan Eminent Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is coeditor of The Literature of the American South and the Southern Literary Journal . Her most recent books are The Queen of Palmyra (a novel), Wishing for Snow (a memoir), and The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading . Klappentext As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi! Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes and to organise boycotts and voter registration drives. In this compelling study of collective memory and artistic production! Minrose Gwin engages the powerful body of work that has emerged in response to Evers's life and death - fiction! poetry! memoir! drama! and songs. Zusammenfassung Fifty years after his untimely death, Evers still casts a long shadow. In her examination of the body of work he has inspired, Gwin probes wide-ranging questions about collective memory and art as instruments of social justice.

Product details

• Authors: Minrose Gwin, Minrose C Gwin, Minrose C. Gwin
• Assisted by: Sarah Gardner (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2013
• EAN: 9780820335643
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3564-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Mercer University Lamar Memori; Mercer University Lamar Memori
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics