1915년 리오 프랭크(Leo Frank) 사건에 나타난 성 정치학 = The Sexual Politics of the Leo Frank Case

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Within the legal annals of Georgia, the Leo Frank case remains one of the most notorious and highly-publicized cases to have ever shed light on cases dealing with discrimination and sexual assault. Leo Frank, a Jewish man living in Atlanta, was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl, Mary Phagan, who was a worker for the National Pencil Company, which he was managing at the time. After commuting Frank’s death sentence to life imprisonment, a group of men from the town, while calling themselves ‘the Knights of Mary Phagan,’ removed Frank from prison and hanged him. This case (which became well-known as the American Dreyfus Affair) quickly became widely-known and captured the entire nation's attention. Most scholars have focused on the issue of anti-Semitism within Frank's conviction and subsequent lynching, with fewer scholars looking at the politics of sexuality and perversion within the case.
This paper analyzes the discourse of sexual assault and perversion surrounding the Leo Frank case by comparing the North and South's different actions, which then eventually led to the simultaneous mythification of Mary Phagan and the martyrdom of Leo Frank, who was ultimately portrayed as ‘the Jewish sexual pervert.’ Additionally, this paper offers the argument that the Leo Frank Lynching and subsequent events eventually led to the rise of the second Ku Klux Klan, whose members spread from the South into the Midwest during the 1920s.
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