Acknowledgments
Foreword: Beyond the Self/Other Binary, Kristina Marie Darling
Introduction
Chapter One: Multiple Consciousness: Laye Camara’s The Dark Child and Richard Wright’s Black Boy
Chapter Two: Audience, Double-Consciousness, and African Teachers of American Literature
Chapter Three: A Hungry Man is a Negro Man: Racializing Poverty in Richard Wright’s Black Boy
Chapter Four: The Weakness of Power in Richard Wright’s Native Son: Lesson Learned in the Context of American Exceptionalism
Chapter Five: The Black Man’s Construction of his Own Invisibility in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Chapter Six: Collecting, Connecting, and Correcting: Vital Steps at the Heart of the Harlem Renaissance
Conclusion: The Poetry of Langston Hughes: An Exceptional Critical Realism
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