Race, ritual, and responsibility: Performativity and the Southern lynching

Performing the Body/Performing the Text

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 76-88

  Hatt, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203983553-11     Document Type: Chapter

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