Wrestling Angels into Song : The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Relative Politics: The Literary Triumvirate of Ralph Waldo Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, and James Alan McPherson	p. 11
The Possible in Things Unwritten: Kinship and Innovation in the Fictions of Ellison, Gaines, and McPherson	p. 39
Tilling the Soil to Find Ourselves: Conversion, Labor, and [Re]membering in Gaines's Of Love and Dust and In My Father's House	p. 67
"If It's Going To Be Any Good, It's Your Story": Legibility, [Un]speakability, and Historical Performance in McPherson's "A Solo Song: For Doc"	p. 104
Voices from the Underground: Conspiracy, Intimacy, and Voice in Gaines's Fictions	p. 127
"The Life of the Law Is Thus a Life of Art": Antagonism and Persuasion in McPherson's Legal Fiction Trilogy	p. 181
Conclusion	p. 229
Notes	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 267
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