Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index.
Contents
At the crossroads -- "Always yes and always no" : affirmation and doubt in John Edgar Wideman's fiction -- "Across the borders" : imagining the future in Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters -- "As within, so it is without" : the composite self in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- "Listening below the surface" : beyond the boundaries in Gloria Naylor's fiction -- "You don't see what I don't see" : communal construction of meaning in Ernest Gaines's fiction -- Performing cultural work.
