Elegy for Mary Turner keyword-trotskyism in its own plane

in its own plane

As an essayist

At once a gripping political analysis and a theoretically charged manifesto

Davis explores the pitfalls of privileging the figure of sight in conceptualizing the nature of textuality

Late Capitalism

Elegy for Mary Turner keyword-trotskyism in its own planeIn late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not, when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see