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| Preface | |
| General Editor's Introduction | |
| Theorizing Literary Influence and African-American Writers | p. 3 |
| Strategies of Black Characterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Early Afro-American Novel | p. 23 |
| Break Dancing in the Drawing Room: Mark Twain and African-American Voices | p. 65 |
| A Trick of Mediation: Charles Chesnutt's Conflicted Literary Relationship with Albion Tourgee | p. 129 |
| "About Us, For Us, Near Us": The Irish and Harlem Renaissances | p. 157 |
| Afro-Celtic Connections: From Frederick Douglass to The Commitments | p. 171 |
| "How Black Sees Green and Red": African-American and Irish Interaction in the Early Twentieth Century | p. 189 |
| Irony without Condescension: Sterling A. Brown's Nod to Robert Frost | p. 211 |
| Carlos Bulosan's Literary Debt to Richard Wright | p. 231 |
| Theoretical Dimensions of Invisible Man | p. 245 |
| Swing to the White, Back to the Black: Writing and "Sourcery" in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo | p. 271 |
| "Kin and Kin": The Poetry of Lucille Clifton | p. 301 |
| Shakespeare's Naylor, Naylor's Shakespeare: Shakespearean Allusion as Appropriation in Gloria Naylor's Quartet | p. 325 |
| On Stepping into Footprints Which Feel Like Your Own: Literacy, Empowerment, and the African-American Literary Tradition | p. 359 |
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