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Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination.

Publication: MELUS
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination. Ed. Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. viii + 262 pages. $22.50 paper.

In the summer of 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy from Chicago visited relatives in Mississippi, only to be brutally murdered by white men who had heard that he had crossed racial boundaries by daring to--depending on the source--speak fresh to or whistle at a white woman. The case is famous today because Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, refused the white authority's orders to leave her son's casket closed up and buried in Mississippi. Instead, she brought her son back to Chicago and opened his casket "so the world could see what they did to my boy." The Till...



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