A Lynching In The Stereoscope Article Analysis

Book Review: A Lynching in the Stereoscope
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October 9, 2017
The article entitled A Lynching in the Stereoscope, is written by Stephanie Dickinson. The story is written in a way, where the stories of the five main characters (among others) are separate but overlapping especially by the end of the story. Aside from this, each of these characters have their own problems that they are facing on their own. Nonetheless, this poses the questions, why are all the characters (protagonists and side characters) female (prompt question)? In line with this, the author of this paper strongly believes that the reason for Dickinson’s utilization of mostly female characters is because she wanted to deliver a subtle “feminist” theme, discussing every issues that women faces all over the world (thesis statement). In the story this could be seen through many different windows and snapshots in the lives of the characters. The first evidence for this would be the fact that most of the characters are women. Aside from having different protagonists of their own stories, the other characters (sidekicks) are also women, which shows the author’s emphasis on wanting to show both the latent and manifests lives that women experiences (Dickinson, 2004). Aside from this, it could also be seen that each and every story of these women are embedded within different contexts and social issues such as prostitution, genocide (through lynching), reproductive rights, as well as race relations. In relation to our main thesis, what this shows is that what the author wanted was to show these stor...