Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The ‘Girl-Reporter’ Confronts the Lynch Mob: Miriam Michaelson’s A Yellow Journalist
Debbie Lelekis
Chapter Two: Theodore Dreiser’s ‘Nigger Jeff’: The Development of an Aesthetic
Donald Pizer
Chapter Three: Theodore Dreiser’s ‘Nigger Jeff,’ “Richard Wright’s ‘Big Boy Leaves Home,’ and Lynching
Michael Sanders
Chapter Four: Lynching as an American Tragedy in Theodore Dreiser’s Literary Works
Kiyohiko Murayama
Chapter Five: Faulkner on Lynching
Neil R. McMillen and Noel Polk
Chapter Six: Lynching in Richard Wright’s ‘Big Boy Leaves Home”
Toru Kiuchi
Chapter Seven: “Lynching in Modern American Short Stories and Sexual Crime in Classic Myth”
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter Eight: The Southern Ritual of Lynching in Faulkner’s Light in August and Ellison’s Three Days before the Shooting
Robert Butler
Chapter Nine: The Electric Execution of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright’s Native Son
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter Ten: Lynching as Surrealism: Leon Forrest’s “The Vision”
Keith Byerman
Chapter Eleven: “Lynching in African American Poetry
Toru Kiuchi
Chapter Twelve: Depictions of Racial Violence in the Work of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Debbie Lelekis
About the Contributors