| Description |
ix, 374 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Violence in literature.
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Victims in literature.
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Heroes in literature.
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Racism in literature.
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| ISBN |
1558490949 alkaline paper |
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9781558490949 alkaline paper |
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1558490957 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781558490956 paperback alkaline paper |
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