The black body as souvenir in American lynching

Theatre Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 639-657

  Young, Harvey ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60950350045     PISSN: 01922882     EISSN: 1086332X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tj.2006.0054     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Quoted in Ralph Ginzburg, 100 Years of Lynching (Baltimore: Black Classics Press, 1988), 12.
2. Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, and the Collection (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), 136.
3. Jean Baudrillard, "The System of Collecting," in The Cultures of Collecting, ed. John Eisner and Roger Cardinal (Carlton: University of Melbourne Press, 1994), 7.
4. Stewart, On Longing, 135.
5. Jane Desmond, Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 254.
6. Arthur Raper, The Tragedy of Lynching (New York: Arno Press, 1969), 40.
7. Quoted in Arthur Madison, A Lynching in the Heartland (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 83.
8. Raper, Tragedy, 2.
9. Walter White, Rope & Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002), 3.
10. Orlando Patterson, Rituals of Blood (Washington, D.C.: Civitas/Counterpoint, 1998), 201.
11. James Allen, "Afterword," in Without Sanctuary, ed. Hilton Als (New York: Twin Palms Publishing, 2001), 204.
12. Quoted in Hilton Als, Without Sanctuary, 174.
13. Desmond, Staging Tourism, 43.
14. Dennis B. Downey and Raymond M. Hyser, No Crooked Death: Coatesville, Pennsylvania and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 38-39.
15. Robyn Wiegman, American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995), 82.
16. White, Rope, 11.
17. Michael J. Pfeifer, Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 4.
18. Brundage, Lynching, 17.
19. Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, trans. Carol Stewart (New York: The Noonday Press, 1998), 51.
20. William Pietz, "The Problem of the Fetish," Res 9 (1985): 7.
21. Joseph Roach, Cities of the Dead (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 124.
22. Pietz, "Problem," 7.
23. Andrew Buckser, "Lynching as Ritual in the American South," Berkeley Journal of Sociology (1992): 18.
24. Trudier Harris, Exorcising Blackness (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984), 22.
25. Patterson, Rituals, 196.
26. Canetti, Crowds, 228; emphasis in original.
27. See Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts (New York: Praeger Paperback, 1998);
28. Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), 24.
29. Patrick Johnson, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 162-63.
30. See Herbert Blau, Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1982).
31. Also see Peggy Phelan, Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (New York: Routledge, 1993).
32. Philip Auslander, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (New York: Routledge, 1999), 40-41.
33. Peggy Phelan, "Marina Abramovic: Witnessing Shadows," Theatre Journal 56 (2004): 575.
34. Andrew Sofer, The Stage Life of Props (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003), 11.
35. Duncan Grey, "Samuel Pepys Diary," July 2002, http://www.pepys.info/1669/1669feb.html. Accessed 15 November 2004.