Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-181) and index.
Contents
The mark without : subversive mulattas and mulattos in the fiction of William Wells Brown and Frank J. Webb -- Race travel in turn-of-the-century African American utopian fiction -- "New people" and invisible men in Charles W. Chesnutt's The house behind the cedars -- The mark within : parody in James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man -- Tres-passing in African American literary criticism.