Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.
Contents:
Justifying the margin : the cultural construction of "soul" -- Civilizing the race : the missionary nationalism of Chaadaev and Crummell -- Conserving the race : the emergence of cultural nationalism -- Notes from the underworld : Dostoevsky, DuBois, and the unveiling of ethnic "soul" -- Recovering the native tongue : Turgenev, Chesnutt, and Hurston -- Underground notes : double-voicedness and the poetics of national identity -- Native sons against native soul : Maxim Gorky and Richard Wright -- Eurasians and new negroes : the invention of multicultural nationalism -- Preserving the race : Rasputin, Naylor, and the mystique of native "soul" -- Response and call : the African American dialogue with Bakhtin.
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