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Author: Koritha Mitchell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9780252036491
ISBN 10: 0252036492
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 04 October 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Impressively researched and powerfully argued, this first full-length critical study of lynching drama shows the ways that these plays galvanized dynamic conversations about the racialized politics of privacy, citizenship, patriotism, and gender roles in American culture. Living with Lynching is a tremendously illuminating work that breaks new ground in theater and performance studies, African American literary history, and women's and gender studies. --Daphne A. Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910<p>
[Mitchell] shows how performing lynching plays in community spaces allowed African Americans to actualize the various subjectivities ... that lynchings sought to expunge. This book is required reading for understanding the ways in which narrative and performance have been central to challenging white oppression as well as (re)imagining black identity in America. Highly recommended. --Choice An emphatic push to change how we understand, write about, and teach the phenomenon of lynching. --H-SHGAPE Mitchell methodically documents and skillfully interprets lynching drama's important cultural work... She illuminates an overlooked aspect African American literary history. --Arkansas Review Impressively researched and powerfully argued, this first full-length critical study of lynching drama shows the ways that these plays galvanized dynamic conversations about the racialized politics of privacy, citizenship, patriotism, and gender roles in American culture. Living with Lynching is a tremendously illuminating work that breaks new ground in theatre and performance studies, African American literary history, and women's and gender studies. Daphne A. Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 This vivid book makes a major contribution to the literature on lynching in the U.S. By excavating an under-examined archive of black dramatic responses to it. Offering a new and convincing periodization of lynching drama, Mitchell moves beyond the best known texts to illuminate a range of plays diligently retrieved and scrupulously interpreted. Living with Lynching is a testament to the endurance of black life in the face of social death. Tavia Nyong'o, author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory
Author Information
Koritha Mitchell is an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University.
