Black violence and the politics of representation : selected readings in the twentieth century American novel

This thesis argues that the representation of black violence in the twentieth century American novel is shaped by two principal rhetorical strategies, which I term denial and demonisation. Denial refers to modes of literary discourse which seek to refute the possibility of black violence, or to circ...

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Main Author: Read, Andrew
Published: Queen Mary, University of London 2004
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412755