{"product_id":"emmett-till-in-literary-memory-and-imagination-paperback","title":"Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarriet Pollack\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Metress\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Pollack, professor emerita of English at Bucknell University, is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEudora Welty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade?\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eHaving Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher Metress is Associate Provost for Academics at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9.03 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782312558880,"sku":"9780807132814","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/651804c5f05679a072d32fe0f110fff6.webp?v=1780567769","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/emmett-till-in-literary-memory-and-imagination-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}