Iconoclasms of Emmett Till and his killers in Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle: A new generation of historiographic metafiction
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...
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2018
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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 |