Съдържание:
  • The Emmett Till case and narrative[s]: an introduction and overview / Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress
  • On that third day he rose: sacramental memory and the lynching of Emmett Till / Christopher Metress
  • The murder of Emmett Till in the melodramatic imagination: William Bradford Huie and Vin Packer in the 1950s / Sharon Monteith
  • Flesh that needs to be loved: Langston Hughes writing the body of Emmett Till / Myisha Priest
  • James Baldwin's unifying polemic: racial segregation, moral integration, and the polarizing figure of Emmett Till / Brian Norman
  • Maids mild and dark villains, sweet magnolias and seeping blood: Gwendolyn Brooks's poetic response to the lynching of Emmett Till / Vivian M. May
  • It could have been my son: maternal empathy in Gwendolyn Brooks's and Audre Lorde's Till poems / Laura Dawkins
  • Silence and the frustration of broken promises: Annie Moody's struggle with the lynching of Emmett Till and the Civil Rights Movement / Kathaleen Amende
  • This corpse so small left unavenged: Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire on Emmett Till's lynching / Sylvie Kande
  • Childhood trauma and its reverberations in Bebe Moore Campbell's Your blues ain't like mine / Suzanne W. Jones
  • Grotesque laughter, unburied bodies, and history: shape-shifting in Lewis Nordan's Wolf whistle / Harriet Pollack
  • (Dis)embodying the Delta blues: Wolf whistle and Your blues ain't like mine / Donnie McMahand
  • Literary representations of the lynching of Emmett Till: an annotated bibliography / Christopher Metress.