Introduction : "the middle passage never guessed its end" : New World slavery in contemporary literature
Beloved : ideologies in conflict, improvised subjects
Being, race, and gender : Black masculinity and western philosophy in Charles Johnson's works on slavery
The chosen place, the timeless people : late capitalism in the Black Atlantic
Performance, identity, and mulatto aesthetics in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
The geography of the Apocalypse : incest, mythology, and the fall of Washington city in Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie
Conclusion : one lives by memory, not by truth.
Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery by Arlene R. Keizer. ISBN 0801489040. Published by Cornell University Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.