RT Book T1 My soul is a witness: the traumatic afterlife of lynching T2 New directions in narrative history A1 Crabtree, Mari N. LA English PP New Haven London PB Yale University Press YR 2022 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1834602815 AB An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its trauma Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility-a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain. Black southerners often shielded their loved ones from the most painful memories of local lynchings with strategic silences but also told lynching stories about vengeful ghosts or a wrathful God or the deathbed confessions of a lyncher tormented by his past. They protested lynching and its legacies through art and activism, and they mourned those lost to a mob's fury. They infused a blues element into their lynching narratives to confront traumatic memories and keep the blues at bay, even if just for a spell. Telling their stories troubles the simplistic binary of resistance or submission that has tended to dominate narratives of Black life and reminds us that amid the utter devastation of lynching were glimmers of hope and an affirmation of life NO Zielgruppe: 5PB-US-C, Bezug zu Afro-Amerikanern CN 364.134 SN 978-0-300-25041-1 K1 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.) K1 Lynching : Southern States : History K1 Lynching : Psychological aspects K1 African Americans : Violence against : Southern States : History K1 Collective Memory K1 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 K1 Amerikanische Geschichte K1 Black & Asian studies K1 Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien K1 HIS056000 K1 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century K1 History of the Americas K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies K1 Social discrimination & inequality K1 Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte K1 Soziale Diskriminierung und Gleichbehandlung K1 Usa K1 Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA