Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.
Contents
At the crossroads -- "Always yes and always no": affirmation and doubt in John Edgar Wideman's fiction -- "Across the borders": imagining the future in Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters -- "As within, so it is without": the composite self in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- "Listening below the surface": beyond the boundaries in Gloria Naylor's fiction -- "You don't see what I don't see": communal construction of meaning in Ernest Gaines's fiction -- Performing cultural work.