Acknowledgments | vii | ||
Abbreviations | xi | ||
1. Toward a Theory of Democratic Symbolic Action | 1 | (48) | |
2. The Motives of Emancipated Prose: Emerson and the Collaborating Reader | 49 | (48) | |
3. Ralph Waldo's Blues, Take 2: Ellison's Changes | 97 | (32) | |
4. Tribes of New York: Frank O'Hara, Amiri Baraka, and the Poetics of the Five Spot | 129 | (47) | |
Epilogue | 176 | (11) | |
Notes | 187 | (48) | |
Index | 235 |