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Victims and heroes : racial violence in the African American novel
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- Creator
- Jerry H. Bryant
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1997]
- ©1997
- Physical Details
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- ix, 374 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1558490949, 9781558490949, 1558490957, 9781558490956
- OCLC
- ocm35835822
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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