Table of Contents:
  • Patriarchy and male subjectivity in Go Down, Moses
  • Desire, subjectivity, and agency: women as objects of desire in the Snopes trilogy
  • "The past is never dead. It's not even past": the emergent culture in Faulkner's Black voices
  • Identity formation: the double-voiced text of The Bluest Eye
  • Reaching an African American voice: Black subjectivity in Song of Solomon
  • Destabilizing dominant culture: Beloved and the gaze of the other
  • The disallowed and the redeemed: the power of the gaze in paradise.