Bleeding roots: the absence and evidence of the lynched black female body

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 u...

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Other Authors:	Williams, Tinea.
Format:	Others
Language:	English
Published:	Florida Atlantic University
Subjects:	African Americans > Crimes against Lynching in literature African Americans in literature Race relations > History and criticism
Online Access:	http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/199329

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spelling	ndltd-fau.edu-oai-fau.digital.flvc.org-fau_30042019-07-04T03:53:00Z Bleeding roots: the absence and evidence of the lynched black female body Williams, Tinea. Text Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Florida Atlantic University English vi, 50 p. electronic 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 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. by Tinea Williams. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web. African Americans--Crimes against Lynching in literature African Americans in literature Race relations--History and criticism Southern States http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/199329 341046519 199329 FADT199329 fau:3004 Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of English http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A3004/datastream/TN/view/Bleeding%20roots.jpg
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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 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. === by Tinea Williams. === Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. === Includes bibliography. === Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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title	Bleeding roots: the absence and evidence of the lynched black female body
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Bleeding roots: the absence and evidence of the lynched black female body

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