Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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
