Current Search: Lynching in literature (x)
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Title
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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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Title
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Literatura "gauchista": La denuncia social de Benito Lynch en "Los caranchos de La Florida" y "El ingles de los guesos".
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Creator
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Ghiragossian, Maria Alejandra., Florida Atlantic University, Horswell, Michael J.
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Abstract/Description
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At the beginning of the 20th century, literary criollism emerged as Latin American nations struggled to achieve national unity and to differentiate themselves from Europe. In Argentina, the "gaucho" was the most autochthonous symbol to be used by the criollists. This thesis examines how two novels, Los caranchos de La Florida and El ingles de los guesos by the Argentinean writer Benito Lynch, in opposition to the exotic version introduced by his contemporaries such as Ricardo Guiraldes,...
Show moreAt the beginning of the 20th century, literary criollism emerged as Latin American nations struggled to achieve national unity and to differentiate themselves from Europe. In Argentina, the "gaucho" was the most autochthonous symbol to be used by the criollists. This thesis examines how two novels, Los caranchos de La Florida and El ingles de los guesos by the Argentinean writer Benito Lynch, in opposition to the exotic version introduced by his contemporaries such as Ricardo Guiraldes, denounce the real situation of the gaucho. The gauchos became the subject of abuse by the landowners and were forgotten by the nation, which excluded them from the national project of unification. I introduce the term "gauchista" literature, analogous to the "indigenista" movement, to characterize Lynch's voice of protest and vindication of the gaucho and his right to education and dignity.
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Date Issued
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2005
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13249
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Subject Headings
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Lynch, Benito,--1880-1951., Spanish American fiction--20th century., Group identity in literature., Gauchos.
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Document (PDF)
