Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index.
Contents
Mythopoeic realities -- The subject(s) of diasporan desire : Jean Toomer as literary ancestor -- Modalities of rememory : the womanist project -- The reading, the writing, and the arithmetic of the Black masculinist project -- Textual androgyny, the androgyne, and the many-tongued chorus of the common memory -- The third gender among the common memory : unspeakables barely spoken -- Conclusion : diasporan literacy, sacred geometry, and the visual arts.
