CFP: Lynching in America (5/1; Collection)
Perhaps it was in 1991 when Clarence Thomas pointedly used the word
lynching in a televised national forum. Perhaps it was in 1998 when
headlines blared that James Byrd was dragged to death and decapitated on a
road in Jasper, Texas. Perhaps it was in 2000 when the exhibit Without
Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America became stunningly popular. It
is hard to pinpoint the exact moment when it left the backburner of
American consciousness, but in the twenty-first century the theme of
lynching is no longer a subject to be ignored. This anthology,
"Spectacular Savagery: Lynching in America," is being put together to
explore the many ramifications of lynching, a communally sanctioned form of
savagely exterminating the other that is often accomplished in social and
spectacular display.
Proposals and papers exploring, but not limited to the following topics,
are welcome.
Lynching and Terror
Lynching and Newspapers
Lynching and Religion
Lynching and Sexuality
The Changing Definition of Lynching
Lynching in Antebellum America
Lynching and the Family
Lynching and Memory
Lynching and Identity
Lynching and the Gaze
Lynching and Masculinity
The Lynching of Women
The Lynching of Children
Lynching and Film
Lynching and Performance
Lynching and Democracy
Lynching and Resistance
The International Response to Lynching
Lynching and Travel
Lynching and the Grotesque
Lynching in the North
Lynching and the Immigrant Other
Lynching and the West
Lynching and the Visual Arts
Lynching in Literature
Lynching and Dance
Lynching and the Law
Please send completed papers (35 pages maximum) or proposals of
approximately 500 words to
Barbara Lewis
bl3@is6.nyu.edu
OR
Barbara Lewis
Africana Studies Department
New York University
269 Mercer Street, Suite 601
New York, New York 10003
Proposals or papers are due by 5/1/2001
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