Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter

African American History and Representation
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-35909-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment. Contributors explore how violence, signifying both an instrument of the white majority’s power and a modality of black resistance, has been understood and articulated in primary materials that range from slave narrative through "lynching plays" and Richard Wright’s fiction to contemporary activist poetry, and from photography of African American suffering through Blaxploitation cinema and Spike Lee’s films to rap lyrics and performances. Diverse both in their period coverage and their choice of medium for discussion, the 11 essays are unified by a shared concern to unpack violence’s multiple meanings for black America. Underlying the collection, too, is not only the desire to memorialize past moments of black American suffering and resistance, but, in politically timely fashion, to explore their connections to our current conjuncture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dix, Andrew

Templeton, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: African American History, Violence and Problems of Representation

Andrew Dix

PART I: THE VIOLENCES OF SLAVERY

- "The Zest of Sport": Representing Slave Hunting as Sport in the Antebellum and Jim Crow Eras

Catherine Armstrong

2 "My massa whip me, cause I love you": Violence towards Slaves in Antebellum Southern Literature Peter Templeton

3 "Monstrous Perversions and Lying Inventions": Moses Roper’s Performative Resistance to the Transatlantic Imagination of American Slavery

Hannah-Rose Murray

4 "The Lynching Had to Be the Best It Could Be Done": Slavery, Suffering and Spectacle in Recent American Cinema

Lydia J. Plath

PART II: FROM CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTS

5 Making Lynching Male: A Canon-Shaping Tendency

Koritha Mitchell

6 Lynching Photography and African American Melancholia

Cassandra Jackson

7 A Necessary Undoing: The Implications of Violence in Richard Wright’s Native Son and The Outsider

Maggie McKinley

PART III: FROM BLAXPLOITATION TO #BLACK LIVES MATTER

8 "The baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad": Pam Grier, Angela Davis and the Politics of Female Violence in Blaxploitation Cinema

Andrew Dix

9 The Topos of Lyrical Gunplay: Hip-Hop and the Process of Civilization

Stephan Kuhl

10 Towards a Black Prophetic Critique of Neoliberal State Violence: Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and the Death of Eric Garner

Luvena Kopp

11 Formal Violence: The Black Lives Matter Movement and Contemporary Elegy

Gavan Lennon

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Dix is Lecturer in American Literature and Film in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, UK.

Peter Templeton is Honorary Fellow at Loughborough University, UK, teaching both in the School of the Arts, English and Drama and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.