Violence, the body, and "The South" / special issue editors Houston A. Baker Jr. and Dana D. Nelson.

Other author Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-
Other author Nelson, Dana D.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke Univ. Press, 2001.
Descriptionpages 232-458 ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents "Eye-witness to the cruelty": Southern violence and Northern testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative / Jeannine DeLombard -- The "mysteries and miseries" of North Carolina: New York City, urban Gothic fiction, and Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Jennifer Rae Greeson -- Charles Chesnutt and the epistemology of racial violence / Bryan Wagner -- The body against itself in Faulkner's phenomenology of race / Laura Doyle -- Sidney Poitier's civil rights: rewriting the mystique of white womanhood in Guess who's coming to dinner and In the heat of the night / Andrea Levine -- Refugees of the South: Central Americans in the U.S. Latino imaginary / Ana Patricia Rodriguez.
General noteReprinted as special issue from the journal American literature, v.73, no.2 (June 2001).
General noteCover title.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Other title American literature. V.73, no.2 (June 2001)
ISBN0822365006

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Joyner General Stacks PS261 .V56 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold