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Title: The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative (The American South Series) by Christopher Metress ISBN: 0-8139-2122-8 Publisher: University of Virginia Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I Take it Back
Comment: Earlier I gave a lukewarm review of this book. In hindsight, the book just was not what I expected. I expected a more narrative history and was disappointed when I did not get it. But that was not the author's intent. What is done here, is done exceptionally well. Truly fascinating. I'm so glad I picked it back up so I can correct the record.
Rating: 5
Summary: Money, Mississippi
Comment: Some might say the 1950s should provide the history, while we in the 21st century provide the analysis -- particularly in matters of race, where the discourse of fifty years ago might be thought too embryonic to add anything to today's sophisticated discussions. Think again. More than half the pages of Chris Metress's 'The Lynching of Emmett Till' are devoted to writings contemporary with the famous case. These pieces display not only the passion and immediacy you would expect -- and which are invaluable for the modern reader -- but also great shrewdness, subtlety, and eloquence, as they report on what one writer calls a "total, unavenged obliteration." (Not every contributor is sympathetic to Till, by the way; just one example is an announcement from the American Anti-Communist Militia claiming that Till is alive and well in California!)
The rest of the book, made up of pieces written in the years since, shows how the Till tragedy has lingered in the American imagination and conscience. Metress collects remarkable meditations on the Till case by Anne Moody, John Edgar Wideman, Langston Hughes, among others. It is quite incredible how Till has loomed in these writers' thoughts. (The book even includes a really awful - and, fortunately, disowned -- song by Bob Dylan.)
Metress's commentary fully situates the reader in all the various contexts but is never overbearing. This is a book of voices; Metress is a superb listener.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not the best out there
Comment: I was not impressed. What I thought would be a thorough treatment of Till's lynching was instead a collection of others' work. So many different points of view makes it impossible to read as a narrative or as history. Interesting, yes, and the book has its place as a source of accounts written at the time of the murder and trial, but other books do a better job of presenting a complete account. If you get this book as a companion piece to other works, do yourself a favor and skip the author's commentary.
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Title: A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till by Stephen J. Whitfield ISBN: 080184326X Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title:American Experience - The Murder of Emmett Till ASIN: B000086K3D Publisher: PBS Home Video Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $24.98 |
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Title: At the Hands of Persons Unknown : The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray ISBN: 0375754458 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: For the Record: A Documentary History of America: From Reconstruction Through Contemporary Times by Holly A. Mayer, David Emory Shi ISBN: 0393973956 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $41.20 |
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Title: Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe ISBN: 0803728042 Publisher: Phyllis Fogelman Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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