{"product_id":"a-spectacular-secret-lynching-in-american-life-and-literature-paperback","title":"A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacqueline Goldsby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life-the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. Jacqueline Goldsby shows that lynching cannot be explained away as a phenomenon peculiar to the South or as the perverse culmination of racist politics. Rather, lynching-a highly visible form of social violence that has historically been shrouded in secrecy-was in fact a fundamental part of the national consciousness whose cultural logic played a pivotal role in the making of American modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To pursue this argument, Goldsby traces lynching's history by taking up select mob murders and studying them together with key literary works. She focuses on three prominent authors-Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Stephen Crane, and James Weldon Johnson-and shows how their own encounters with lynching influenced their analyses of it. She also examines a recently assembled archive of evidence-lynching photographs-to show how photography structured the nation's perception of lynching violence before World War I. Finally, Goldsby considers the way lynching persisted into the twentieth century, discussing the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 and the ballad-elegies of Gwendolyn Brooks to which his murder gave rise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An empathic and perceptive work, \u003ci\u003eA Spectacular Secret\u003c\/i\u003e will make an important contribution to the study of American history and literature.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacqueline Goldsby\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.98 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52611012297011,"sku":"9780226301389","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/V0cybEJqVk1TNW85RURTOE5pVU5TQT09.webp?v=1761832315","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-spectacular-secret-lynching-in-american-life-and-literature-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}