Iconoclasms of Emmett Till and his killers in Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle: A new generation of historiographic metafiction

• Published in: Semiotica
• Main Author: Vayo, Brendon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2018
• Subjects: Literature and Literary Theory; Linguistics and Language; Language and Linguistics; Chapel Hill; algonquin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0037; http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/semi.2018.2018.issue-225/sem-2016-0037/sem-2016-0037.xml; https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/sem-2016-0037/pdf

Abstract In this essay, I argue that the apparent historical inaccuracies contained within Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle (Nordan, Lewis. 2003 [1993]. Wolf Whistle . Chapel Hill: Algonquin) represent a systematic repeal of the controversial history surrounding the murder of Emmett Till in 1955. Nordan...