A literary exploration of the prevalence of deathits connection to political oppression and its use as salvationin Richard Wright’s work.
1Introduction : the culture of social-death12Uncle Tom's children : dialectics of death453Native son : symbolic-death774Black boy : negation of death-bound-subjectivity1385The outsider : patricidal desires1756Savage holiday : matricide and infanticide2107The long dream : death and the paternal function2338Renegotiating the death contract266