Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-322) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Culture of Social-Death; Uncle Tom's Children: Dialectics of Death; Native Son: Symbolic-Death; Black Boy: Negation of Death-Bound-Subjectivity; The Outsider: Patricidal Desires; Savage Holiday: Matricide and Infanticide; The Long Dream: Death and the Paternal Function; Renegotiating the Death Contract; Notes; Works Cited; Index