Witnessing Lynching: American Writers RespondAnne P. Rice Rutgers University Press, 2003 - 324 páginas Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond is the first anthology to gather poetry, essays, drama, and fiction from the height of the lynching era (1889 1935). During this time, the torture of a black person drew thousands of local onlookers and was replayed throughout the nation in lurid newspaper reports. The selections gathered here represent the courageous efforts of American writers to witness the trauma of lynching and to expose the truth about this uniquely American atrocity. Included are well-known authors and activists such as Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Ida B. Wells, and Theodore Dreiser, as well as many others. These writers respond to lynching in many different ways, using literature to protest and educate, to create a space of mourning in which to commemorate and rehumanize the dead, and as a cathartic release for personal and collective trauma. Their words provide today s reader with a chance to witness lynching and better understand the current state of race relations in America. An introduction by Anne P. Rice offers a broad historical and thematic framework to ground the selections." |
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Charles W Chesnutt The Sheriffs Children 1889 | 27 |
Frederick Douglass Lynch Law in the South 1892 | 40 |
Ida B WellsBarnett Excerpt from Mob Rule in New Orleans 1900 | 46 |
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Will Smiths Defense of His Race | 66 |
Alice French Octave Thanet Beyond the Limit 1903 | 77 |
Paul Laurence Dunbar The Haunted Oak 1903 | 89 |
Mary Church Terrell Excerpt from Lynching from a Negros | 98 |
Sutton E Griggs The Blaze from The Hindered Hand | 106 |
Claude McKay If We Must Die 1919 | 188 |
William Pickens Excerpt from Lynching and Debt Slavery 1921 | 209 |
Leslie Pinckney Hill So Quietly 1921 | 216 |
Langston Hughes The South 1922 | 223 |
Anne Spencer White Things 1923 | 235 |
Lola Ridge Morning Ride 1927 | 247 |
Sterling Brown He Was a Man 1932 | 263 |
Nancy Clara Cunard Excerpt from Scottsboroand Other | 270 |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Jim Crow Cars 1907 | 117 |
French Wilson Jimmy 1914 | 135 |
The Waco Horror Supplement to the Crisis July 1916 | 141 |
Theodore Dreiser Nigger Jeff 1918 | 151 |
Carl Sandburg Excerpts from The Chicago Race Riots July 1919 | 172 |
Mary Powell Burrill Aftermath 1919 | 178 |
Esther Popel Flag Salute 1934 | 282 |
Richard Wright Between the World and Me 1935 | 304 |
James Weldon Johnson Excerpt from The Autobiography of an ExColored | 307 |
Permissions | 313 |
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