Violence, the body, and "The South"
By: special issue editors Houston A. Baker Jr. and Dana D. Nelson.
Contributors: Baker, Houston A.; Nelson, Dana D.
Publisher: Duke Univ. Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism; Race in literature; Slavery in literature; Violence in literature
Other titles: American literature. v.73, no.2 (June 2001)
Notes: Reprinted as special issue from the journal American literature, v.73, no.2 (June 2001).

Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Eye-witness to the cruelty": Southern violence and Northern testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative / Jeannine DeLombard; title: 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; title: Charles Chesnutt and the epistemology of racial violence / Bryan Wagner; title: The body against itself in Faulkner's phenomenology of race / Laura Doyle; title: 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; title: Refugees of the South: Central Americans in the U.S. Latino imaginary / Ana Patricia Rodriguez.