Introduction / Maryemma Graham
PART I: THE LONG JOURNEY: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVEL AND HISTORY
Freeing the voice, creating the self: the novel and slavery / Christopher Mulvey
Reconstructing the race: the novel after slavery / M. Giulia Fabi
The novel of the Negro Renaissance / George Hutchinson
Caribbean migration, ex-isles, and the New World novel / Giselle Liza Anatol
PART II: SEARCH FOR A FORM: THE NEW AMERICAN NOVEL
The neo-slave narrative / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy
Coming of age in the African American novel / Claudine Raynaud
The blues novel / Steven C. Tracy
From modernism to postmodernism: black literature at the crossroads / Fritz Gysin
The African American novel and popular culture / Susanne B. Dietzel
PART III: AFRICAN AMERICAN VOICES: FROM MARGIN TO CENTER
Everybody's protest novel: the era of Richard Wright / Jerry W. Ward Jr.
Finding common ground: Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin / Herman Beavers
American Neo-HooDooism: the novels of Ishmael Reed / Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure
Spaces for readers: the novels of Toni Morrison / Marilyn Mobley McKenzie
African American womanism: from Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker / Lovalerie King
Vernacular modernism in the novels of John Edgar Wideman and Leon Forrest / Keith Byerman.
