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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, the book explores writing about lynching as an American tragedy.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The 'Girl-Reporter' Confronts the Lynch Mob: Miriam Michaelson's A Yellow Journalist
Debbie Lelekis
Chapter Two: Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff': The Development of an Aesthetic
Donald Pizer
Chapter Three: Theodore Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff,' "Richard Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home,' and Lynching
Michael Sanders
Chapter Four: Lynching as an American Tragedy in Theodore Dreiser's Literary Works
Kiyohiko Murayama
Chapter Five: Faulkner on Lynching
Neil R. McMillen and Noel Polk
Chapter Six: Lynching in Richard Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home"
Toru Kiuchi
Chapter Seven: "Lynching in Modern American Short Stories and Sexual Crime in Classic Myth"
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter Eight: The Southern Ritual of Lynching in Faulkner's Light in August and Ellison's Three Days before the Shooting
Robert Butler
Chapter Nine: The Electric Execution of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's Native Son
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter Ten: Lynching as Surrealism: Leon Forrest's "The Vision"
Keith Byerman
Chapter Eleven: "Lynching in African American Poetry
Toru Kiuchi
Chapter Twelve: Depictions of Racial Violence in the Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Debbie Lelekis
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani - Contributions by Robert Butler; Keith Byerman; Yoshinobu Hakutani; Toru Kiuchi; Debbie Lelekis; Neil R. McMillen; Kiyohiko Murayama; Donald Pizer; Noel Polk and Michael Sanders
Summary
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, the book explores writing about lynching as an American tragedy.
