Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-205) and index
Self and state : lynching's intimate violence -- "America is Mississippi now" : the portable South and the exile of Richard Wright -- Beneath the skin : George Schuyler and the Fantasy of race -- "Peaceful and unfathomable and unbearable eyes" : William Faulkner's Elisions of witness -- The lynched woman : Kara Walker, Laura Nelson, and the question of agency -- Vacant lots : public memory and the practice of forgetting.