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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
341

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Subjects
Intellectual life, African Americans, History, Race relations, History and criticism, Race relations in literature, Violence in literature, Violence, American literature, Social conditions, African American authors, Blues (Music), Blues (Music) in literature, African americans, intellectual life, African americans, social conditions, Blues (music), American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Southern states, intellectual life, Southern states, race relations
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Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
2014, University of Chicago Press
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Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
2010, University of Chicago Press
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2002, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

"I'm tore down"
Lynching and the birth of a blues tradition
"Make my getaway"
Southern violence and blues entrepreneurship in W.C. Handy's Father of the blues
Dis(re)memberment blues
Narratives of abjection and redress
"Shoot myself a cop"
Mamie Smith's "Crazy blues" as social text
Guns, knives, and buckets of blood
The predicament of blues culture
"The blade already crying in my flesh"
Zora Neale Hurston's blues narratives.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
781.643/0975
Library of Congress
E185.92 .G87 2002, E185.92.G87 2002

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xiv, 341 p. ;
Number of pages
341

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OL3556663M
Internet Archive
seemslikemurderh00guss
ISBN 10
0226310973, 0226310981
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2002014388
OCLC/WorldCat
50598253
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2453824
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3728962
407056

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