Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case
Author: Toni Morrison
Secondary Author: Claudia Brodsky Lacour
ISBN: 9780679758938
Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature,Birth of a Nation'hoodelucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination. As they pertain to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the media are refracted through twelve powerful essays that have been written especially for this book by distinguished intellectuals--black and white, male and female. Together these keen analyses of a defining American moment cast a chilling gaze on the script and spectacle of the insidious tensions that rend our society, even as they ponder the proper historical, cultural, political, legal, psychological, and linguistic ramifications of the affair. With contributions by: Toni Morrison, George Lipsitz, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., with Aderson Bellegarde Francois and Linda Y. Yueh, Nikol G. Alexander and Drucilla Cornell, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Ishmael Reed, Leola Johnson and David Roedig
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publish Date: 1997
Subjects: Law / Legal History, Law / Essays, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, True Crime / Murder / General
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Contemporary Issues (CONT)), Women's Center (Location: African-American/Black Studies)