The Lynching

The Lynching Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Jahan Ramazani. Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
  • Trudier Harris. Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
  • Kotti Sree Ramesh and Kandula Nirupa Rani. Claude McKay: The Literary Identity from Jamaica to Harlem and Beyond. Jefferson: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2006.
  • Phyllis R Klotman. “‘Tearing a Hole in History’: Lynching as Theme and Motif.” Black American Literature Forum, vol. 19, no. 2, 1985, pp. 55–63. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2904007.

  • Donna E. M. Denizé and Louisa Newlin. “The Sonnet Tradition and Claude McKay.” The English Journal, vol. 99, no. 1, 2009, pp. 99–105. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40503338.