Author: Eudora Welty
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604732641
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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A treasury of hard-to-find stories, essays, tributes, and humor from a literary master

Author: Katherine Elizabeth Eggert
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Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: George Quayle Cannon
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Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author: Dorothy Anne Stephens
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Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Author: Harriet Pollack
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807132810
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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The horrific 1955 slaying of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till marks a significant turning point in the history of American race relations. An African American boy from Chicago, Till was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta when he was accused of "wolf-whistling" at a young white woman. His murderers abducted him from his great-uncle's home, beat him, then shot him in the head. Three days later, searchers discovered his body in the Tallahatchie River. The two white men charged with his murder received a swift acquittal from an all-white jury. The eleven essays in Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination examine how the narrative of the Till lynching continues to haunt racial consciousness and to resonate in our collective imagination.The trial and acquittal of Till's murderers became, in the words of one historian, "the first great media event of the civil rights movement," and since then, the lynching has assumed a central place in literary memory. The international group of contributors to this volume explores how the Emmett Till story has been fashioned and refashioned in fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography by writers as diverse as William Bradford Huie, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Anne Moody, Nicolás Guillén, Aimé Césaire, Bebe Moore Campbell, and Lewis Nordan. They suggest the presence of an "Emmett Till narrative" deeply embedded in post-1955 literature, an overarching recurrent plot that builds on recognizable elements and is as legible as the "lynching narrative" or the "passing narrative." Writers have fashioned Till's story in many ways: an the annotated bibliography that ends the volume discusses more than 130 works that memorialize the lynching, calling attention to the full extent of Till's presence in literary memory. Breaking new ground in civil rights studies and the discussion of race in America, Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination eloquently attests to the special power and artistic resonance of one young man's murder.

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Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 772

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Author: Karl Barth
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1608992373
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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"These sermons were prepared from 1920 to 1924. Professor Barth preached some of them while he was minister of the Reformed congregation in Safenwil, Canton Aargau, Switzerland; others in the Reformed Church in Goettingen while he was professor of theology in the University. Pastor Thurneysen at that time preached to the congregation in Bruggen, near St. Gall, Switzerland. The sermons were written not for special occasions but for the regular Sunday morning service, and were addressed to such men and women as one will find in any village or city church--to men and women in the struggle for life, waiting and seeking for God. "Pastor Thurneysen selected the sermons and arranged them according to a scheme that may be indicated by the words Promise, Christ, Christian Living." --from the Translator's Preface

Author: Dorothy Leman
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Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Patricia Phillippy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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A study of remembrance in post-Reformation England in religious and secular artworks and texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and women writers.