Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-276) and index.
Contents
Master texts and slave narratives: race, form, and intertextuality in the field of cultural production -- Toward 1968: the discourse in formation -- The discourse mobilized: the debate over William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner -- The possession of resistance: Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada -- Meditations on story: Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Serving the form, conserving the order: Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale -- Revising the form, misserving the order: Charles Johnson's Middle passage -- Conclusion.