Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-199) and index.
Contents
Negotiating blackness: Dove and the African American poetic tradition -- Miscegenation, the primal scene, and the incest motif in Dove's work -- Introducing the cultural mulatto in The Yellow House on the Corner -- Museum and cosmopolitanism -- Thomas and Beulah: starting at the "source" of the blues nomad -- The personal become myth: Grace Notes and Mother Love.
