Gender and Lynching

EVELYN M. SIMIEN Associate Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Introduction; Evelyn M. Simien Mary Turner, Hidden Memory, and Narrative Possibility; Julie Buckner Armstrong Sisters in Motherhood (?): The Politics of Race and Gender in Lynching Drama; Koritha Mitchell The Female Lynch Victim in Post-Reconstruction African American Literature; Barbara McCaskill "A Woman was Lynched the Other Day": Memory, Gender, and the Limits of Traumatic Representation; Jennifer D. Williams The Politics of Sexuality in Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"; Fumiko Sakashita Gender, Race, and Public Space: Photography and Memory in the Massacre of East Saint Louis and the Crisis Magazine; Anne Rice