Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-165) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the dissenting subject -- The unbearable whiteness of being and the Africanist presence in Russell Bank's Continental Drift -- Playing in history's dark : the struggle for agency in Toni Morrison's Jazz -- Identity, masculinity, and desire in David Bradley's fiction -- The center of power is nothing : storytelling, history, and resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead -- Queering class : Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues.
