Introduction: On Literary Records and Discursive Possibilities -- Re-Membering Blackness After Reconstruction: Race, Rape, and Political Desire in the Work of Thomas Dixon, Jr. -- Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, and the Politics of Literary Anti-Racism -- Black Women and White Terrorism: Ida B. Wells, David Bryant Fulton, Pauline E. Hopkins, and the Politics of Representation -- Rethinking White Female Silences: Kate Chopin's Local Color Fiction and the Politics of White Supremacy -- Afterword: Cultural Memories and Critical Inventions
Summary
Rape, Race, and Lynching examines American literary encounters with the conditions, processes and consequences of violence by whites against blacks
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index
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