Research Catalog

Title

Violence in the Black imagination : essays and documents / Ronald T. Takaki.

Author

Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Details

Description

348 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• In Violence in the Black Imagination, Ronald T. Takaki presents three short novels by major African-American leaders in the nineteenth century: The Heroic Slave, by Frederick Douglass, the leading black abolitionist; Blake, by Martin Delany, the father of black nationalism; and Clotelle, by William Wells Brown, a pioneer of the black novel. The novels are accompanied by substantive essays which provide biographical information on the authors and explore the common theme of their works -- the issue of black revolutionary violence in antebellum America.
• This edition includes a new preface which examines the 1992 South Central Los Angeles racial explosion in relationship to Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the 1965 Watts Riot, and helps us understand the history of racism in America and its legacy of antagonism and violence.

Subjects

• Violence in literature
• African Americans in literature
• American fiction > 19th century
• American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Fiction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Not afraid to die : Frederick Douglass and violence -- The heroic slave, by Frederick Douglass -- War upon the Whites : Black rage in the fiction of Martin Delany -- Blake : or, The huts of America, by Martin Delaney -- Violence in fantasy : the fiction of William Wells Brown -- Clotelle : a tale of the Southern States, by W.W. Brown.

ISBN

• 0195082494
• 9780195082494

LCCN

92033493

OCLC

• ocm26858128
• 26858128
• SCSB-1987546

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library