Embodied Practices of Black Belonging and Identity Formation in Lynching Drama of the Progressive Era: Koritha Mitchell’s Living with Lynching
Main Article Content
Abstract
Reviewed by M. Mar Gallego Durán
University of Huelva, Spain
The volume authored by Koritha Mitchell is a remarkable contribution to the field of African American drama, as it explores the manifold uses of lynching plays during the Progressive era as crucial tools to ensure community conversation and debate about the difficulties and complexities involved in having to coexist with the terrible reality of lynching. [...]
Downloads
Article Details
References
Carby, H. 1987. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford University Press.
Collins, P.H. 2005. Black Sexual Politics. African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism. New York: Routledge.
Du Bois, W.E.B. 1917. “The perpetual dilemma”. Crisis (April), 270-271.
Du Bois, W.E.B. 1926. “Criteria for negro art”. Crisis (October), 290-297.
Hooks, B. 2004. We Real Cool. Black Men and Masculinity. New York: Routledge.
Mitchell, K. 2011. Living with Lynching. African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Mutua, A. (Ed.) 2006. Progressive Black Masculinities. New York: Routledge.