Black Subjects

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Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction. "The Middle Passage Never Guessed Its End": New World Slavery in Contemporary Literature	1	(20)
1. Beloved: Ideologies in Conflict, Improvised Subjects	21	(27)
2. Being, Race, and Gender: Black Masculinity and Western Philosophy in Charles Johnson's Works on Slavery	48	(29)
3. The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: Late Capitalism in the Black Atlantic	77	(22)
4. Performance, Identity, and "Mulatto Aesthetics" in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain	99	(26)
5. The Geography of the Apocalypse: Incest, Mythology, and the Fall of Washington City in Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie	125	(39)
Conclusion. "One Lives by Memory, Not by Truth"	164	(9)
Notes	173	(16)
Works Cited	189	(10)
Index	199