Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930

Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930 / Koritha Mitchell.

"Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in periodicals, lynching plays were...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Koritha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2011.
Series:New Black studies series.
Subjects:
1800-1999
American drama > African American authors > History and criticism.
American drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
American drama > 19th century > History and criticism.
One-act plays, American > History and criticism.
Lynching in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Violence in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
DRAMA > American.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > Playwriting.
African Americans in literature
American drama
American drama > African American authors
Citizenship in literature
Lynching in literature
One-act plays, American
Violence in literature
Electronic book.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Making lynching drama and its contributions legible. Scenes and scenarios : reading aright
  • Redefining "black theater"
  • Developing a genre, asserting black citizenship. The black soldier : elevating community conversation
  • The black lawyer : preserving testimony
  • The black mother/wife : negotiating trauma
  • The pimp and coward : offering gendered revisions.

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