Introduction
Ⅰ.White Response
Ⅱ.African American Response
Ⅲ.Chinese Response
Ⅳ.Contribution and Organization of the Book
Chapter One A Tense Triangle: the Blacks, the Sooth and the Artist
1.1 The Blacks as the Center of Racial and Aesthetic Concerns
1.2 The South as the Center of Turbulent Changes
1.3 The Writer as the Center of Creativity
Chapter Two A Promising Start
2.1 An Extensive Awareness of Black Presence
2.2 The First Confrontation with a Named Black Family
2.3 First Encounter with Mulattoes
2.3.1 Mulattoes in Flags in the Dust
2.3.2 Mulattoes in "There Was a Queen"
Chapter Three A Swift Rise
3.1 A Black Family Granted Central Vision
3.2 Victim of Sexual Exploitation
3.3 Victim of Environment and indian Slavery
Chapter Four A Psychological Leap
4.1 The First Systematic Demystification of Miscegenation
4.2 Dramatization of the Hysterical White Gyneolatry
4.3 Dramatization of Black as a "Tainted Idea"
4.4 Dramatization of "Blood" Myth
Chapter Five Two Summit Achievements
5.1 A Black's "Encyclopedia"
5.2 A Black's "Manifesto"
Chapter Six The Descending Curve
6.1 The Descent
6.2 The Symptoms
6.2.1 The Old Confederate Game Replayed
6.2.2 The Deified "Tyrant" and the Mystifying "Nun"
6.2.3 The Plummeting to the Ground
6.3 Tile Persistent Efforts
6.3.1 From Abstraction to Experience
6.3.2 From "Watching" to "Doing"
Chapter Seven The Limited Faulkner
7.1 The Stereotypes Revisited
7.2 Intruder in the Text
7.3 Neglect of Intra racial Realities
Conclusion
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