The Properties of Violence Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching by SandyAlexandre Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-665-1, ISBN: 1-61703-665-X
"The Properties of Violence focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those representations. Alexandre compellingly shows how putting representations of lynching in dialogue with the history of lynching uncovers the profound investment of African American literature--as an enterprise that continually seeks to create c ..."
"This study looks at the role that fictional and actual material things play in black-American literature and culture. The book" "analyzes cultural products ranging from fictional literary narratives and black memorabilia to black inventions in order to glean an ethics from the transition of enslaved black people being owned as things to their condition as free blacks who own, curate, and patent material things themselves. It explores th ..."
The Properties of Violence Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching by Alexandre, Sandy Trade Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2020 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-3074-6, ISBN: 1-4968-3074-1
"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."
The Properties of Violence Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching by SandyAlexandre 235 Pages, Published 2012 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-666-8, ISBN: 1-61703-666-8
"In bringing a potential victim into the aftermath of a lynching scene, Wright
propagates where the intention of the lynching was to annihilate. But Wright's
subversive act of propagation is fraught with complexity, because he introduces a
living, breathing black man into the scene only to make him experience the death
of the blackman who had once occupied the site as a lynching victim. Such
vacillation between life and death is not ..."
The Properties of Violence Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching by SandyAlexandre 248 Pages, Published 2012 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-0141-8, ISBN: 1-4968-0141-5
"For example, in Victims and Heroes, Jerry H. Bryant defines lynching as “the
killing of a black man or woman by a conspiracy of two or more white persons
without due process of law by hanging, burning, shooting, beating, dragging,
stabbing, ..."
"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."