附註: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.
