History, culture, discourse : America's racial formation
Burying the dead : the pain of memory in Beloved
Bearing witness : the recent fiction of Ernest Gaines
Troubling the water : subversive women's voices in Dessa Rose and Mama Day
A short history of desire : Jazz and Bailey's Cafe
The color of desire : folk history in the fiction of Raymond Andrews
Postmodern slavery and the transcendence of desire : the novels of Charles Johnson
Family secrets : reinventions of history in The Chaneysville incident
Family troubles : history as subversion in Two wings to veil my face and Divine days
Lost generations : John Edgar Wideman's Homewood narratives
Apocalyptic visions and false prophets : the end(s) of history in Wideman, Johnson, and Morrison.