Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII
4. INTRODUCTION: THE DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE 1
5. I. Crossdressing, Crossreading, or Complementary Theorizing?
6. The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies 21
7. Doing Justice to the Subjects: Mimetic Art in a Multicultural Society: The Work of Anna Deavere Smith 57
8. "Racial Composition": Metaphor and the Body in the Writing of Race 77
9. Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation 102
10. II. Representing the Unrepresentable: The Symbolic and the Real
11. 'All the Things You Could Be by Now, If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother": Psychoanalysis and Race 135
12. Seeing Sentiment: Photography, Race, and the Innocent Eye 159
13. "Beyond Mortal Vision": Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig and the American Racial Dream-Text 187
14. Redeeming History: Toni Morrison's Beloved 201
15. III. Race, Psychoanalysis, and Female Desire
16. Re-Placing Race in (White) Psychoanalytic Discourse: Founding Narratives of Feminism 223
17. The Quicksands of the Self: Nella Larsen and Heinz Kohut 252
18. Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen's Psychoanalytic Challenge 266
19. The Stories of O(Dessa): Stories of Complicity and Resistance 285
20. IV. Healing Narratives
21. Pauline Hopkins and William James: The New Psychology and the Politics of Race 307
22. Channeling the Ancestral Muse: Lucille Clifton and Dolores Kendrick 330
23. The Poetics of Identity: Questioning Spiritualism in African American Contexts 349
24. Fixing Methodologies: Beloved 363
25. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 371