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Under Lynching's Shadow: Grimké's Call for Domestic Reconfiguration in "Rachel"
Ist Teil von
African American review, 2014-06, Vol.47 (2/3), p.391-402
Ort / Verlag
Saint Louis: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In the following examination of the "racial-domestic" terror of lynching and its impact on the home space of the families that were "diminished" by it I discuss insights into the various realities the threat of lynching brought into being. Since the authors of lynching plays were not typically interested in portraying the violence of the lynching act itself, many of them used theater to illustrate the ways in which lynching's after-effects intruded on every aspect of the lives of African Americans. According to Judith Stephens, "Lynching plays by women challenged at the deepest level the hierarchical power relationships based on gender and race.