L’effacement des lynchages californiens. La mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images

L’effacement des lynchages californiens. La mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images

Before being extensively practiced in the Old South after the abolition of slavery, lynching was massively used in the West of the United States causing hundreds of victims. The artist and academic Ken Gonzales-Day, specialists in the matter in California, questions through with work how the abundan...

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Main Author: Pierre Vialle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA) 2018-02-01
Series:Les Cahiers de Framespa
Subjects:
lynching
memory
photography
erasing
use
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/framespa/4662
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L’effacement des lynchages californiens. La mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images
Les Cahiers de Framespa
lynching
memory
photography
erasing
use
author_facet Pierre Vialle
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title L’effacement des lynchages californiens. La mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images
title_short L’effacement des lynchages californiens. La mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images
title_full L’effacement des lynchages californiens. La mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images
title_fullStr L’effacement des lynchages californiens. La mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images
title_full_unstemmed L’effacement des lynchages californiens. La mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images
title_sort l’effacement des lynchages californiens. la mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images
publisher UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA)
series Les Cahiers de Framespa
issn 1760-4761
publishDate 2018-02-01
description Before being extensively practiced in the Old South after the abolition of slavery, lynching was massively used in the West of the United States causing hundreds of victims. The artist and academic Ken Gonzales-Day, specialists in the matter in California, questions through with work how the abundance of lynching in the region was able to supply lacks of recordings in the American History in spite of the fact that there are numerous photos of these crimes. An attentive look to the context of its perpetration, and to the influence of the conjunctive character of the crime, reveals that following the examples of other artefacts, an image has power and meaning only to those who conferred it, and that problems of accountability and a memory competition are not the only reasons in the forgetting of the Californian lynchings.
topic lynching
memory
photography
erasing
use
url http://journals.openedition.org/framespa/4662
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