Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Harriet Pollack, professor emerita of English at Bucknell University, is coeditor of Eudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? and editor of Having Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America . Christopher Metress is Associate Provost for Academics at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the editor of The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative and The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett . Klappentext The horrific 1955 slaying of fourteen year-old Emmett Till marks a significant turning point in the history of American race relations. An African American boy from Chicago, Till was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta when he was accused of "wolf-whistling" at a young white woman. His murderers abducted him from his great-uncle's home, beat him, then shot him in the head. Three days later, searchers discovered his body in the Tallahatchie River. The two white men charged with his murder received a swift acquittal from an all-white jury. The eleven essays in Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination examine how the narrative of the Till lynching continues to haunt racial consciousness and to resonate in our collective imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Harriet (EDT)/ Metress Pollack
• Assisted by: Christopher Metress (Editor), Harriet Pollack (Editor)
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780807132814
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3281-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Southern Literary Studies (Pap; Southern Literary Studies; Southern Literary Studies (Pap
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies