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"The Aesthetics of Terror: Constructing 'Felt Threat in Those Bones Are Not My Child and Leaving Atlanta."

ResearchPaper

LGBTQ Studies
African American/African Diaspora

EnglishGerShun Avilez Featured in Obsidian: Literature of the African Diaspora. Special Issue: Violence & Black Youth in Post-Civil Rights U.S. Avilez analyzes the suspenseful novel portraying a community–and a family–under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. "The Aesthetics of …Faculty63121Obsidian