1st Edition

The Literary Legacy of the Kennedy Assassination True Crime Tragedy

By Danielle Johannesen Copyright 2027
212 Pages
by Routledge

The Literary Legacy of the Kennedy Assassination: True Crime Tragedy surveys and analyzes literary representations of the 1963 JFK assassination in Dallas. The book argues for understanding the assassination as a true crime event. As true crime narratives, the Zapruder film and the Warren Report introduced intertextual symbols of American violence that continue to shape and engage with... Read more

Introduction

Chapter One: The JFK Assassination as True Crime Narrative

Chapter Two: Remembering the Victim: JFK in Assassination Narratives

Chapter Three: The Bouclé Fabric of American Life: Jacqueline Kennedy’s Pink Suit and Literary Symbolism

Chapter Four: Lee Harvey Oswald as Literary Character

Chapter Five: The JFK Assassination in Poetry, Experimental Works, and Songs

Chapter Six: The Scene of the Crime: Dealey Plaza as Literary Artifact

Chapter Seven: The Assassination of JFK in Comic and Graphic Narratives

Conclusion

Biography

Danielle Johannesen is Associate Professor of English and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Crookston.