Fire in a Canebrake

Laura Wexler explained important events in her racial relationship in the middle of the 20th century with her "Canebrake Fire". It was driven to the barrier of American consciousness long ago. By so doing, Wechsler not only delicately explained the case - Moerford's Lynch - in 1946, but also incorporated it into our current world by keeping the complexity of suspicion and deception surrounding the incident It was. And understand past, and confuse it in history. By subtly using these deceptive behaviors, Wexler not only portrays them to the reader in complete form, but also historizes such chaotic records in several larger historical contexts can also do.

"Canebrake's fires are very honest, meticulously careful and elegantly reproducing the tragedy, somehow managed to transcend certain events in the post-war Georgian era, and in an overwhelming way in the United States The four bodies are quiet and there are few places to notice, but at the end of the story, Laura Wechsler tens of thousands of lynching in this country, law and sin We are thinking about accomplices, corruption, nation, I deny, when we began to remember, we began to clean up. "

A genuine but unresolved mystery novel about Laura Wexler's raw material "The Last Mass of America" ​​for weaving Fire with Canebrake. Georgia is a paradise of green of Eden, grassland of honeysuckle, meandering creek, promenade, dusty road, corn wine, and taboo. If it is only a few bustle in the distance, God is very active. The black and white people are weevils in the garden, and they cheat cotton with malice till cushion disappears in the meantime.

Wechsler received the title from the way the locals explained Lynch. "Canebrake is a bush looking almost like bamboo, if you want to fire the flame of Canebrake, hollow sugarcane stalks will explode and they will sound like a gunshot," Wexler said It was. Interview with Morning News. As Montagne reported, the mob was actually only a member of the organization and 24-year-old Roger Malcom was arrested for getting drunk and beating a white man. Roger Malcolm was rescued from prison by a white landowner who passed through the Moorford Bridge when the murderer appeared. The landlord later said that his black passenger was dragged out of the car and drove along the bank. After the discovery, the body of Roger Malcolm was dismayed.