ch. 1. Black man, blackface : the case of Paul Laurence Dunbar -- ch. 2. Racial hieroglyphics : Zora Neale Hurston and the rise of the new Negro -- ch. 3. "Unspoken words are stronger" : narrative interiority and racial visibility in Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha -- ch. 4. Sex and violence : the poetics of black power

1. American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
2. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
3. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
4. Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature
5. African Americans in literature
6. Reality in literature
7. Race in literature
8. Electronic books.