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Victims and Heroes : Racial Violence in the African American Novel
author
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Bryant, Jerry H.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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1558490949
print isbn13
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9781558490949
ebook isbn13
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9780585186955
language
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English
subject
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism, African Americans in literature, Race relations in literature, Violence in literature, Racism in literature.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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PS374.N4B74 1997eb
ddc
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813/.009/355
subject
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American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism, African Americans in literature, Race relations in literature, Violence in literature, Racism in literature.
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Victims and Heroes
Racial Violence in the African American Novel
Jerry H. Bryant
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS Amherst
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Copyright 1997 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 96-48656 ISBN 1-55849-094-9 (cloth); 095-7 (pbk.) Designed by Milenda Nan Ok Lee Set in Bembo Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bryant, Jerry H., 1928 Victims and heroes: racial violence in the African American novel / Jerry H. Bryant. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-55849-094-9 (alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-095-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American fictionAfro-American authorsHistory and criticism. 2. Afro-Americans in literature. 3. Race relations in literature. 4. Violence in literature. 5. Racism in literature. I. Title. PS374.N4B74 1997 813'.009'355dc21 96-48656 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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For my son Craig, and my daughter Melaine
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
Part I. Before the War
1. Violence, Victims, and Heroes in the Antebellum Slave Narrative
9
Images of Violence
9
Victims and the Sentimental
13
Whipping, Sentiment, Sex, and Sade-ism: Douglass's Narrative
15
Douglass's Narrative: Autonomy and the Hero
23
2. Prototypes in the Antebellum Novel
31
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
31
Blake; or, The Huts of America
38
The Garies and Their Friends
44
Part II. After the War: Lynching and Other Recreations
3. Searching for the Hero, 18651900: Black Warrior, Forgiving Christ
53
The Warrior
53
The Martyr
57
The Mythology of White Manhood: Men and Brutes
58
Overcoming the Brute-Inheritance
63
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4. The Truth about Lynching, 18921922: Harper, Hopkins, Griggs, and Their Contemporaries
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