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Bleeding roots: the absence and evidence of the lynched black female body.
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Creator
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Williams, Tinea., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Abstract/Description
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Scholars of the literary depictions of lynching have given the majority of their attention to the emasculation of the black male, but the representation of the black female lynch victim has been overlooked. My thesis examines the deaths of black women that had the same effect as lynching practices used against men. This specific literary form of lynching will concentrate on two plays: Mary P. Burrill's They That Sit in Darkness (1919) and Marita Bonner's Exit: An Illusion (1929) and two...
Show moreScholars of the literary depictions of lynching have given the majority of their attention to the emasculation of the black male, but the representation of the black female lynch victim has been overlooked. My thesis examines the deaths of black women that had the same effect as lynching practices used against men. This specific literary form of lynching will concentrate on two plays: Mary P. Burrill's They That Sit in Darkness (1919) and Marita Bonner's Exit: An Illusion (1929) and two novels by Toni Morrison, Beloved and Sula. Considering the contours of these black female deaths we can expand the traditional definition of lynching to include the black female lynch victim. The aspects that make her death a lynching are encased in more subtleties than a traditional definition of lynching allows for, and less visible.
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Date Issued
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2009
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/199329
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Subject Headings
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African Americans, Crimes against, Lynching in literature, African Americans in literature, Race relations, History and criticism
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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Judge, jury, and executioner: the fate of the insane in Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer.
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Creator
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Rush, Kathleen., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Abstract/Description
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Much of Tennessee Williams' work features mentally ill characters; his devotion to and interest in the subject has led to the composition of many plays that highlight the humanity of the insane, rather that caricaturize them with the usual stereotypes. In Suddenly Last Summer, Williams challenges the social stigmas most "normal" people attach to madness. Throughout the course of the action, the lines dividing sane and insane, normate and non-normate, gradually blur disrupting the audience's...
Show moreMuch of Tennessee Williams' work features mentally ill characters; his devotion to and interest in the subject has led to the composition of many plays that highlight the humanity of the insane, rather that caricaturize them with the usual stereotypes. In Suddenly Last Summer, Williams challenges the social stigmas most "normal" people attach to madness. Throughout the course of the action, the lines dividing sane and insane, normate and non-normate, gradually blur disrupting the audience's social equilibrium. By undermining presumed viewer prejudices toward the mentally ill, Williams creates the opportunity for redrawing the social boundaries of exclusion and inclusion.
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Date Issued
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2009
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/221952
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Subject Headings
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Criticism and interpretation, Mental illness in literature, Literature and mental illness
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Document (PDF)
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A Zigzag Journey in the Sunny South, or, Wonder Tales of Early American History.
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Creator
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Butterworth, Hezekiah
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Date Issued
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1887
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/FA00000262.pdf
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Subject Headings
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Description and travel, Description and travel
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E-book