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Bleeding roots
Title
Bleeding roots: the absence and evidence of the lynched black female body.
Creator
Williams, Tinea., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
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
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/199329
Subject Headings
African Americans, Crimes against, Lynching in literature, African Americans in literature, Race relations, History and criticism
Format
Document (PDF)
Deep-fried harmony
Title
Deep-fried harmony: the impact of pro-Judaic rhetoric in fostering Protestant-Jewish amity in the ante-bellum South.
Creator
Lebowitz, Scott H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description
Scholars of southern Jewish history maintain that ante-bellum southerners displayed genuine philo-Semitism towards their Jewish neighbors. Historians attribute this to the southern Jews "effort to assimilate into southern society and to the presence of other, more preferred, targets of the southerners" animus, namely blacks and Catholics. This analysis, however, is not sufficiently broad to explain the South's Protestant-Jewish dynamic. It neither appraises the relationship from the...
Show moreScholars of southern Jewish history maintain that ante-bellum southerners displayed genuine philo-Semitism towards their Jewish neighbors. Historians attribute this to the southern Jews "effort to assimilate into southern society and to the presence of other, more preferred, targets of the southerners" animus, namely blacks and Catholics. This analysis, however, is not sufficiently broad to explain the South's Protestant-Jewish dynamic. It neither appraises the relationship from the perspective of the Protestants, nor accounts for the intellectual inconsistencies such a conclusion presents regarding both Protestants and southerners, generally. This thesis identifies and responds to these shortcomings by examining southern philo-Semitism through the eyes of the Protestants and thesis argues that pro-Judaic rhetoric of southern evangelical clergy inundated southerners with favorable references and images of the biblical Jews, causing southerners to develop a high degree of reverence and respect for Jews, whom they saw as their spiritual kinfolk.
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3332718
Subject Headings
Jews, Identity, Philosemitism, Protestants, Relations with Jews, Jews, Relations with Protestants, Evangelicalism
Format
Document (PDF)
Edna Pearce Lockett
Title
Edna Pearce Lockett: lady of the house.
Creator
Dooley, Terry L., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description
This thesis demonstrates how some women used the power of their ancestry and family name to run for political office, to become a positive role model for other women, and also to help pass laws favorable to the improvement of gender equality. Edna Pearce Lockett was unique, but also a reflection of the values of her community. Women who ran for office tended to have strong male figures in their lives that treated them as equals. They often were savvy enough to use the novelty of their gender...
Show moreThis thesis demonstrates how some women used the power of their ancestry and family name to run for political office, to become a positive role model for other women, and also to help pass laws favorable to the improvement of gender equality. Edna Pearce Lockett was unique, but also a reflection of the values of her community. Women who ran for office tended to have strong male figures in their lives that treated them as equals. They often were savvy enough to use the novelty of their gender to encourage positive press. Far from trying to be men, they accentuated their femininity through press accounts detailing their fashion sense, their dedication to feminine pursuits, and their ability to be ladies as well as serve their constituency. Edna Pearce Lockett's life also illustrates what society was like in central Florida during the first half of the 20th century for men and women living on and around the cattle industry.
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Date Issued
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186679
Subject Headings
Political and social views, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Women in politics, History, Feminism, History and criticism, Women, History, History
Format
Document (PDF)
Judge, jury, and executioner
Title
Judge, jury, and executioner: the fate of the insane in Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer.
Creator
Rush, Kathleen., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
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
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/221952
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Mental illness in literature, Literature and mental illness
Format
Document (PDF)
Zigzag Journey in the Sunny South, or, Wonder Tales of Early American History
Title
A Zigzag Journey in the Sunny South, or, Wonder Tales of Early American History.
Creator
Butterworth, Hezekiah
Date Issued
1887
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/FA00000262.pdf
Subject Headings
Description and travel, Description and travel
Format
E-book