Conclusion: To Escape the Fundamental Principles of Your Existence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Introduction: Reading / Race / Relationally 11
5. 1. Reading the Past, Writing the Future: The Intuitionist 43
6. 2. Ab/uses of History: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt 77
7. 3. (Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novel of (Black Bourgeois) Manners? Sag Harbor 113
8. 4. Money, Abstraction, Cultural Production: John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt Revisited 143
9. 5. The Masterless Ocean: Zone One 177
10. Conclusion: To Escape the Fundamental Principles of Your Existence 211
11. Works Cited 241