CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction: The culture of social-death 1
5. 2. Uncle Tom’s Children: Dialectics of death 45
6. 3. Native Son: Symbolic-death 77
7. 4. Black Boy: Negation of death-bound- subjectivity 138
8. 5. The Outsider: Patricidal desires 175
9. 6. Savage Holiday: Matricide and infanticide 210
10. 7. The Long Dream: Death and the paternal function 233
11. 8. Renegotiating the Death Contract 266
12. Notes 301
13. Works Cited 317
14. Index 323