Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-223) and index.
Contents
Narrative and genealogy: toward a postnational study of postslavery literatures -- Reading in the dark: Cirilo Villaverde and George Washington Cable -- Reading behind the face: Martín Morúa Delgado, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Frances E.W. Harper -- Between the insular self and the exotic other: Alejo Carpentier and William Faulkner -- The emancipation of/from history: Jean Rhys, Rosario Ferré, and Toni Morrison.