pt. 1. The call: I rose and found my voice: narration, authentication, and authorial control in four slave narratives -- Lost in a cause: Booker T. Washington's Up from slavery -- The quest of the weary traveler: W.E.B. DuBois's The souls of Black folk -- pt. 2. The response: Lost in a quest: James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-coloured man -- Literacy and ascent: Richard Wright's Black boy -- Literacy and hibernation: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man.
