Ashes taken for fire [electronic resource] : aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity / Kevin Bell.

Holographic ensemble : the death of doubt itself in The nigger of the "Narcissus"
Something savage, something pedantic : imaginary portraits of certitude in Jacob's room
Maladjusted phantasms : the ontological question of blackness in Light in August
The business of dreams : retailing presence in Miss Lonelyhearts
Chaos and surface in Invisible man
Assuming the position : fugitivity and futurity in the work of Chester Himes.