Violence from Slavery To #BlackLivesMatter : African American History and Representation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I The Violences of Slavery -- 1 "The Zest of Sport": Representing Slave Hunting as Sport in the Antebellum and Jim Crow Eras -- Abolition, Slave Hunting and the Bloodhound -- Evidence for Slave Hunting as Sport -- Denial and Accommodation: Slave Hunting's Legacy in the Jim Crow Era -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 "My Massa Whip Me, Cause I Love You": Violence towards Slaves in Antebellum Southern Literature -- Note -- References -- 3 "Monstrous Perversions and Lying Inventions": Moses Roper's Performative Resistance to the Transatlantic Imagination of American Slavery -- "Well-authenticated facts": Slavery, Abolition and the Problem of Representation -- "We have the evidence of better authorities than Moses Roper": Victorian Print Culture and Enslaved Testimony -- "I would give him 100 lashes without stopping": Roper's Performative Resistance to White Critics -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 "The Lynching Had to Be the Best It Could Be Done": Slavery, Suffering and Spectacle in Recent American Cinema -- The Whipping Scene -- The Rape Scene -- The Lynching Scene -- Notes -- References -- Part II From Civil War to Civil Rights -- 5 Making Lynching Male: A Canon-Shaping Tendency -- Notes -- References -- 6 Lynching Photography and African American Melancholia -- References -- 7 A Necessary Undoing: The Implications of Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider -- Violent Awakening in Native Son -- Violent Escape in The Outsider -- Notes -- References -- Part III From Blaxploitation to #BlackLivesMatter -- 8 "The Baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad": Pam Grier, Angela Davis and the Politics of Female Violence in Blaxploitation Cinema -- "She's a dangerous lady" -- "If they could put on such a show".

"You can't fight them alone" -- Mythical Violence, Divine Violence and Pam Grier -- Notes -- References -- Index.

This bookbrings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment of Black Lives Matter.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.