Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents

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Title

Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents

This edition

"Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents" . Ed. Ronald T. Takaki. New York: Capricorn Books, 1972. 348 pp.

Other editions, reprints, and translations

Rev. ed. with new preface. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. 348 pp.

Table of contents

● Preface

Part I. Not Afraid to Die: Frederick Douglass and Violence
● Frederick Douglass / The Heroic Slave

Part II. War Upon the Whites: Black Rage in the Fiction of Martin Delany
● Martin Delany / Blake: Or, The Huts of America

Part III. Violence in Fantasy: The Fiction of William Wells Brown
● W. W. Brown / Clotelle: A Tale of The Southern States

● Bibliographical Essay

Reviews and notices of anthology


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Commentary on anthology


• "combines the texts of Douglass's The Heroic Slave, Delany's Blake, and Brown's Clotel with a substantial essay on each and a bibliographical essay" (Kinnamon 1997: 474).

Cited in


Kinnamon 1997: 474]

Item Number

A0184

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