Violence in the Black Imagination : Essays and Documents.

By: Takaki, Ronald TMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 1993Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (357 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780198024392Subject(s): African Americans in literature | American fiction -- 19th century | American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism | American fiction -- African American authors | Violence in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violence in the Black Imagination : Essays and DocumentsDDC classification: 813/.08/0353 LOC classification: PS374.N4 -- T35 1993ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Not Afraid to Die: Frederick Douglass and Violence -- The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass -- Part II: War Upon the Whites: Black Rage in the Fiction of Martin Delany -- Blake: or, the Huts of America by Martin Delany -- Part III: Violence in Fantasy: The Fiction of William Wells Brown -- Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States by W. W. Brown -- Bibliographical Essay.
Summary: This collection of three short novels about major Afro-American leaders (Frederick Douglass's "The Heroic Slave", Martin Delany's "Blake" and William Wells Brown's "Clotelle"), along with critical essays by the editor, explores the issue of black revolutionary violence in modern America.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Not Afraid to Die: Frederick Douglass and Violence -- The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass -- Part II: War Upon the Whites: Black Rage in the Fiction of Martin Delany -- Blake: or, the Huts of America by Martin Delany -- Part III: Violence in Fantasy: The Fiction of William Wells Brown -- Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States by W. W. Brown -- Bibliographical Essay.

This collection of three short novels about major Afro-American leaders (Frederick Douglass's "The Heroic Slave", Martin Delany's "Blake" and William Wells Brown's "Clotelle"), along with critical essays by the editor, explores the issue of black revolutionary violence in modern America.

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