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- Title
Breaking the Filibuster of Race: the Literary Resonance of the Emmett Till Murder.
- Authors
Ferrence, Matthew
- Abstract
This article discusses the author's experiences teaching the 1993 novel "Wolf Whistle" by Lewis Nordan to college students, and how the book's use of vulgar racial and sexual language can facilitate more open discussions of race in the United States. The objection of white students to the sexual vulgarity in the book, and the objection of African American students to the racial vulgarity, are contrasted, and the author likens the unwritten rules of racial discourse in U.S. society to the delaying tactic of the filibuster in the U.S. Senate. The ways Nordan's book gets around this "filibuster" in its allusions to the 1955 murder of African American Emmett Till are then discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WOLF Whistle (Book); NORDAN, Lewis, 1939-2012; TILL, Emmett, 1941-1955; RACISM in literature; VULGARITY in literature; STUDY &; teaching of racism; FILIBUSTERS (Political science); COLLEGE students; STUDY &; teaching of American literature; RACE relations in the United States; COLLEGE student attitudes
- Publication
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies, 2010, Vol 41, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1075-4008
- Publication type
Article