Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Master's Pieces: On Canon Formation and the Afro-American Tradition 17
6. 2. Moving On Down the Line: Variations on the African-American Sermon 39
7. 3. Appropriating the Idioms of Science: The Rejection of Scientific Racism 72
8. 4. The Color of Politics in the United States: White Supremacy as the Main Explanation for the Peculiarities of American Politics from Colonial Times to the Present 104
9. 5. Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism 134
10. 6. Autoethnography: The An-archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Road 164
11. 7. "The Very House of Difference": Race, Gender, and the Politics of South African Women's Narrative in Poppie Nongena 196
12. 8. Beyond the Limit: The Social Relations of Madness In Southern African Fiction 231
13. 9. The Subversive Poetics of Radical Bilingualism: Postcolonial Francophone North African Literature 255
14. 10. Literary Whiteness and the Afro-Hispanic Difference 278
15. 11. Drawing the Color Line: Kipling and the Culture of Colonial Rule 311
16. Notes on Contributors 344
17. Index 347