Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. Introduction. "The Middle Passage Never Guessed Its End": New World Slavery in Contemporary Literature 1
5. 1. Beloved: Ideologies in Conflict, Improvised Subjects 21
6. 2. Being, Race, and Gender: Black Masculinity and Western Philosophy in Charles johnson's Works on Slavery 48
7. 3. The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: Late Capitalism in the Black Atlantic 77
8. 4. Performance, Identity, and "Mulatto Aesthetics" in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain 99
9. 5. The Geography of the Apocalypse: Incest, Mythology, and the Fall of Washington City in Carolivia Herron's Thereafter johnnie 125
10. Conclusion. "One Lives by Memory, Not by Truth" 164
11. NOTES 173
12. WORKS CITED 189
13. INDEX 199