Victims and heroes : racial violence in the African American novel /
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Language: | English |
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Amherst, Mass. :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©1997.
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Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=22396 |
Table of Contents:
- Violence, victims, and heroes in the antebellum slave narrative
- Prototypes in the antebellum novel
- Search for the hero, 1865-1900 : Black warrior, forgiving Christ
- The truth about lynchings, 1892-1922 : Harper, Hopkins, Griggs, and their contemporaries
- The limits of the hero : Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition and Johnson's Autobiography of an ex-colored man
- Art and lynching : the Harlem Renaissance and the 1930s
- After World War II : lynching, history, and the source of identity
- RIchard Wright and Bigger Thomas : grace in damnation
- The rebel stirs : temporary insanity and creative riots
- The rise of the Black revolutionary : the making of an image
- The fall of the revolutionary : the image dismantled
- It ends in brotherhood : Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.