Trudier Harris-Lopez
Biographic Data
| ID | 9325326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trudier Harris-Lopez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trudier |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris-Lopez |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS-LOPEZ T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
South of Tradition
Exorcising Blackness
By lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people, contends Trudier Harris, white Americans were perfomring a rite of exorcism designed to eradicate the "black beast" from their midst, or, at the very least, to render him powerless and emasculated. Black writers have graphically portrayed such tragic incidents in their writings. In doing so, they seem to be acting out a communal role-a perpetuation of an oral tradition bent on…
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Exorcising Blackness
By lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people, contends Trudier Harris, white Americans were perfomring a rite of exorcism designed to eradicate the "black beast" from their midst, or, at the very least, to render him powerless and emasculated. Black writers have graphically portrayed such tragic incidents in their writings. In doing so, they seem to be acting out a communal role-a perpetuation of an oral tradition bent on…
South of Tradition
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