The anatomy of resistance [Elektronische Ressource] : the rhetoric of anti-lynching in American literature and culture, 1892 - 1936 / vorgelegt von Sascha W. Krause

The Anatomy of Resistance: The Rhetoric of Anti-Lynching in American Literature and Culture, 1892 – 1936 Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Philosophischen Fakultät IV (Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften) der Universität Regensburg vorgelegt von Sascha W. Krause Regensburg 2005 ______________________________ Regensburg 2005 Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Udo J. Hebel Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch Acknowledgements For generous financial, professional, and personal support I owe many individuals and insti-tutions. The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung awarded me with a postgraduate fellowship which provided the necessary financial support to make this study possible in the first place. Fur-thermore, they kindly sponsored my research trip to the USA and sought to help me ideation-ally but also humanely at all times throughout the past three years. I am very grateful that they believed in my project and gave me the chance to realize it. Prof. Dr. Udo J. Hebel, my supervising professor at the University of Regensburg, has continued to keep the faith in my work. He has supported and encouraged me wherever and whenever possible and provided important advice and criticism. I want to thank him for all the pain he has gone through with me to make this study possible. I am equally indebted to Prof. Dr. Klaus T.