Introduction: Critical paradigms in race, nation, and narratology -- Pt. 1. Interruptions. Race, citizenship, and form : James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man ; The poetics of biomythography : the work of Audre Lorde -- Pt. 2. Disruptions. Race, nation, and the imagination : Michelle Cliff's No telephone to heaven ; Jazz imaginings of the nation-state : Earl Lovelace's Salt -- Pt. 3. Eruptions. Dis-ease, de-formity, and diaspora : John Edgar Wideman's The cattle killing -- Conclusion: Dialectics of globalization, development, and discourse.
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