Violence in the Black Imagination : Essays and Documents.
Title:
Violence in the Black Imagination : Essays and Documents.
Author:
Takaki, Ronald T.
ISBN:
9780198024392
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (357 pages)
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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