"An original piece of criticism and intellectual history that illuminates the significance of the treatment of violence in the African-American literary tradition". -- Herbert Shapiro
- ISBN10 0585186952
- ISBN13 9780585186955
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 28 July 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Massachusetts Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 374
- Language English