Black subjects: identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery

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.