Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Why Mencken?
Chapter 2. Mencken and "The Colored Brother"
Chapter 3. The Age of Satire: The Teacher and His Pupils
Chapter 4. The Dream of the Secular City: Mencken Locke, and the "Little American Renaissance"
Chapter 5. Et Tu Mencken? The End of the Romance
Chapter 6. The Negro Novel and the Limits of Realism
Chapter 7. Epilogue
Notes
Index

About the Author

Charles Scruggs is a professor of American literature at the University of Arizona and author of Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel.