Rape, Race, and Lynching

The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912

Autor: Sandra Gunning

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Editura: Oxford University Press Inc

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In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for whit...

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Autor

Sandra Gunning

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1997

Pagini

206

EAN

9780195099904

ISBN

0195099907

Enbook ID

04513708

Editura

Oxford University Press Inc

Greutate

475

Dimensiuni

161 x 240 x 20

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In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in American culture and literature during and after Reconstruction was related to the growth of white-on-black violence, as white lynch mobs acted in "defence" of white womanhood, the white family, and white nationalism. In Rape, Race, and Lynching Sandra Gunning investigates American literary encounters with the conditions, processes, and consequences of such violence through the representation of not just the black rapist stereotype, but of other crucial stereotypes in mediating moments of white social crisis: "lascivious" black womanhood; avenging white masculinity; and passive white femininity. Gunning argues that these figures together signify the tangle of race and gender representation emerging from turn-of-the-century American literature. The book brings together Charles W. Chestnutt, Kate Chopin, Thomas Dixon, David Bryant Fulton, Pauline Hopkins, Mark Twain, and Ida B. Wells: famous, infamous, or long-neglected figures who produced novels, essays, stories, and pamphlets in the volatile period of the 1890s to the early 1900s, and who contributed to the continual renegotiation and redefinition of the terms and boundaries of a national dialogue on racial violence.

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The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912

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