pt. 1. Climate of violence: Wolfe, Caldwell, Faulkner -- pt. 2. Violence and the integrity of the self: Robert Penn Warren -- Test by fire: Flannery O'Connor -- Violence as revelation: Eudora Welty -- Cost of freedom: William Styron -- Voices of distance: William Goyen -- Violence in a private world: Truman Capote -- Dispossessed love: Carson McCullers -- Primitives and violence: Shirley Ann Grau.