Men of color, women, and uppity art at the turn of the century / Elizabeth Ammons -- Nineteenth-century women poets and realism / Cheryl Walker -- "I can't write a book" / Nancy Walker -- Reading her/stories against his/stories in early Chinese American literature / Amy Ling -- Native American literatures and the canon / Patricia Okker -- Romance and realism / Sanford E. Marovitz -- Problems of representation in turn-of-the-century immigrant fiction / Susan K. Harris -- Three black writers and the anthologized canon / Keneth Kinnamon -- Recanonizing the multiple canons of Henry James / Richard A. Hocks --From painful cult to painful realism / Alfred Habegger -- Is Huckleberry Finn politically correct? / Tom Quirk -- Whatever happened to Bret Harte? / Gary Scharnhorst.