Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Figures; Introduction; 1. Olaudah Equiano, an Enlightenment Cosmopolitan in the Age of Slavery; 2. The Philadelphian Novelist Frank Webb Anticipates the Future; 3. The Goopher in Charles W. Chesnutt's Conjure Tales: Superstition, Ethnicity, and Modern Metamorphoses ; 4. Jean Toomer's Cane: Modernism and Race in Interwar America; 5. African American Intellectuals and Europe between the Two World Wars; 6. W.E.B. Du Bois in Nazi Germany, 1936; 7. Modernization as Adultery: Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and American Culture of the 1930s and 1940s
  • 8. Of Mules and Mares in a Land of Difference or, Quadrupeds All?; 9. The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois; 10. Owls and Rats in the American Funnyhouse: Adrienne Kennedy's Drama; 11. LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Dutchman; 12. Obligations to Negroes Who Would Be Kin if They Were Not Negro; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index