The thirteenth turn: a history of the noose
"The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one of the most powerful in history, and particularly in America, whose relationship to the noose is all too deep and complicate...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one of the most powerful in history, and particularly in America, whose relationship to the noose is all too deep and complicated. Our history with hangings is shockingly recent. The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Hanging has since been disallowed in that state, but it is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to symbolically menace black students, is a fresh reminder of just how potent this emblem of racism and savage violence still is. All that meaning, and all that history, is a lot to see in a coiled rope. But the fact is, that meaning is felt by all of us. And Jack Shuler, a professor of American literature and black studies, is the right man to explore it: from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. Shuler goes era by era, tracing the evolution of this dark practice in episodes, and revealing the ways each one impacted the society around it. As he investigates the death of John Brown and the 1930 lynching that inspired the song "Strange Fruit," his travels take him across America-and not just the South-uncovering our deep secrets and searching for meaning. Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: for all the celebrated strides we've made towards integration and harmony, those victories are hollow without an appreciation for what they vanquished. The Thirteenth Turn is a courageous and searching book that reminds us where we come from, and what is lost if we forget. "-- |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 354 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9781610391368 |
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| contents | [Part 1] Origins -- 1. The thirteenth turn: origins of the noose -- 2. Rope, ritual, roots: the Iron Age hanging of Tollund Man -- 3. An ignoble death: hanging from the Roman Empire to medieval Europe -- [Part 2] Revolutions -- 4. At the crossroads: the spectacle of hanging in colonial New York -- 5. Hanging Hannah Occuish in post-revolution America -- 6. Meteors of war: death by hanging and the end of slavery -- 7. The noose in the museum: hanging and Native America -- [Part 3] Lynching -- 8. Alone from a tree: lynching in the post-reconstruction South -- 9. A story of hands: an early twentieth-century lynching in the American Midwest -- 10. Strange fruit: the legacy of Marion -- [Part 4] A good death -- 11. When the gallows come down -- 12. The new burning cross -- 13. The noose in our world |
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| spelling | Shuler, Jack Verfasser (DE-588)139526951 aut The thirteenth turn a history of the noose Jack Shuler 1. ed. New York PublicAffairs 2014 IX, 354 S. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index [Part 1] Origins -- 1. The thirteenth turn: origins of the noose -- 2. Rope, ritual, roots: the Iron Age hanging of Tollund Man -- 3. An ignoble death: hanging from the Roman Empire to medieval Europe -- [Part 2] Revolutions -- 4. At the crossroads: the spectacle of hanging in colonial New York -- 5. Hanging Hannah Occuish in post-revolution America -- 6. Meteors of war: death by hanging and the end of slavery -- 7. The noose in the museum: hanging and Native America -- [Part 3] Lynching -- 8. Alone from a tree: lynching in the post-reconstruction South -- 9. A story of hands: an early twentieth-century lynching in the American Midwest -- 10. Strange fruit: the legacy of Marion -- [Part 4] A good death -- 11. When the gallows come down -- 12. The new burning cross -- 13. The noose in our world "The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one of the most powerful in history, and particularly in America, whose relationship to the noose is all too deep and complicated. Our history with hangings is shockingly recent. The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Hanging has since been disallowed in that state, but it is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to symbolically menace black students, is a fresh reminder of just how potent this emblem of racism and savage violence still is. All that meaning, and all that history, is a lot to see in a coiled rope. But the fact is, that meaning is felt by all of us. And Jack Shuler, a professor of American literature and black studies, is the right man to explore it: from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. Shuler goes era by era, tracing the evolution of this dark practice in episodes, and revealing the ways each one impacted the society around it. As he investigates the death of John Brown and the 1930 lynching that inspired the song "Strange Fruit," his travels take him across America-and not just the South-uncovering our deep secrets and searching for meaning. Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: for all the celebrated strides we've made towards integration and harmony, those victories are hollow without an appreciation for what they vanquished. The Thirteenth Turn is a courageous and searching book that reminds us where we come from, and what is lost if we forget. "-- Hanging / United States / History Lynching / United States / History Violence / United States / History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies bisacsh HISTORY / United States / 20th Century bisacsh HISTORY / United States / 19th Century bisacsh Hanging fast Lynching fast Violence fast Geschichte United States fast USA |
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