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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451876303321

Autore

Takaki Ronald T. <1939-2009.>

Titolo

Violence in the Black imagination [[electronic resource] ] : essays and documents / / Ronald T. Takaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

1-280-52681-5

0-19-802439-8

1-4294-0772-7

Edizione

[Expanded ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Disciplina

813.009896073

Soggetti

American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism

American fiction - African American authors

American fiction - 19th century

African Americans in literature

Violence in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-348).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.