Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind

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v contents preface vii Introduction: Calls and Responses 1 1 Designs against Tara: Representing Slavery in American Culture, 1936–1944 20 2 From Tara to Turner: Slavery and Slave Psychologies in American Fiction and History, 1945–1968 63 3 You Shall See How a Slave Was Made a Woman: The Development of the Contemporary Novel of Slavery, 1976–1987 114 4 Scarlett and Mammy Done Gone: Complications of the Contemporary Novel of Slavery, 1986–2003 149 5 Mapping the Unrepresentable: Slavery Fiction in the New Millennium 185 Conclusion: Beyond Black and White 209 recto vi appendix Major Historical Studies, Fiction, Drama, Films, and TV Presentations since 1918 concerning Slavery in the United States 215 notes 227 works cited 237 index 249 contents ...