Black Time: The Reality versus the Myth -- Beginnings: The West African Cycle -- The Linear New World and the Balancing Act -- The Chaos of Time -- Vision, Rebellion, and Redemption -- The Shapes of Chaos and Rebellion -- Women: Chaos and Redemption -- Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God -- George Lammning, In the Castle of My Skin -- Jean Toomer, Game -- William Attaway, Blood on the Forge -- Ayi Kwei Armah, Why Are We So Blest -- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon -- Wole Soyinka, Season of Anomy