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124 [Bluestone Road] 48, 51, 54, 56, 78, 79, Atelier Project 147 117, 171, 181 audience 154, 156, 158–159 369th Infantry 18 abolition 43, 53, 82, 108, 144, 169, 173, 179 Baby Suggs 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 82, 83, abuse 15, 17, 69, 177 170, 180 child abuse 11, 15 Bakhtin, Mikhail 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36, 37, sexual abuse 54 39, 40, 75, 81, 84–85, 86, 89, 135, 181 Acton 62 Bambara, Toni Cade 16, 139 aesthetic 47, 49, 55, 139, 145, 151, 155, 156, beauty 16, 28, 49, 52, 71 169, 178 Bechet, Sidney 102 aesthetic and rapport 22, 23 Beloved 43–58, 59, 64, 75, 76, 77, 78–79, aesthetic value 116 80, 82–84, 87, 89, 106, 116, 118, 122, Africa 48 135, 141, 143, 146, 159, 166, 168, cosmology 34, 83, 177 169–171, 177, 178–179, 180, 181 heritage 141 Beloved 44–45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56, immigrants 81 57, 76, 78, 79, 82, 84, 146, 159, 167, Africa and Afro-America 56 171, 181 Africanism 115, 116, 119, 120, 146 Bible 19, 51, 69, 77, 79, 80, 141, 144, Africans 101, 107, 142 167 Afro-Caribbean people 34 Bill Cosey 92, 94, 95–99 African American (See also black) Billie Delia 68, 72 literature 106, 116, 117, 139, 140, 141, Billy Boy 94, 97 146, 155, 156, 158, 165, 178 birth 52, 54, 55, 60, 146, 169 people 14, 50, 60, 66, 68, 73, 75, 92, 93, birthmark 20 120, 122, 127, 144, 168 Birth of a Nation’hood 126 agency 64, 84, 107, 127, 134, 152, 154, 159, bit 47, 56, 82 160 black (See also African American) Alice Manfred 62, 85 black bourgeoisie 93 alienation 130, 181 black culture 35, 50, 67, 75, 116, 117, 120, Alighieri, Dante 71, 80 145, 155, 176, 179, 181 American literature 29, 115, 117, 118–120, Black is Beautiful 11 122, 152, 165, 175 black mammy 179 Amy 49, 52, 54, 57 black men 29, 35, 36, 54, 105, 180 ancestor 31, 94 Black Power movement 143 animal 51, 63, 83 black soldiers 18 Anna Flood 69 black women 45, 62, 106, 142, 171, 179 Arnette 72 black women writers 146, 152, 156, 158, Arnold Fleetwood 80 175

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black youth 105, 166 Clearing 51, 57, 83 blackness 14, 79, 118, 156 Coffee 80 Black Book, The 143–146 community 16, 45, 68, 69, 83, 84, 92–99, blindness 39, 154, 166, 167 107, 143, 171, 175 blind black horsemen 35, 39–40 all-black 66 blues 11, 16, 36, 57, 63, 66, 141, 180 black 26, 178 Bluest Eye, The 23, 59, 104, 117, 140, 152, slave 108 153, 155, 157–158, 160, 176, 177, 179, consciousness 44, 53, 56, 141 180 Consolata 67, 70–71, 72, 88 blue eyes in 15 contradictions 48, 64, 158 Bodwin 84 contrarieties 34 body 51, 54, 55, 65, 70, 83, 84, 88, 89, 97, Convent 67, 68, 71, 72, 77, 78, 80, 87–88 119, 126, 130, 144, 165, 167, 170, 171, Convent women 70 172, 173, 179, 180 crawling-already? baby 44, 82 body parts 52 critic 163, 175 body writing 52 critic and artist 163 body, female 70 body, mother’s 62 dance 44, 134 body, reclamation of 83 “Dancing Mind, The” 126, 132–134 body, uniﬁcation with spirit 88 Danielpour, Richard 101, 106, 109 body, writing the 87 Deacon Morgan 69 bond/bonding 17, 18, 20, 21, 30, 53, 55, 62, death 19, 23, 31, 44, 45, 52, 70, 72, 96, 98, 89, 92 110, 167, 168, 175, 179, 181 Bottom, the 20 death of language 167 Br’er Rabbit 35, 38, 39, 40 Demeter 14 “Br’er Rabbit and the Tar Baby” 32 Denver 44, 45, 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 82, 84, 146 call and response 85, 177 Derrida, Jacques 56, 62 Candomble´ 66, 70 dialogic 32, 33, 34, 135, 167 canon, literary 117, 164–165, 175 dialogue 26, 36, 37, 84–85, 86, 89, 133, 135 capitalism 30, 32, 33, 34 Disallowing 67 Caribbean 33, 34, 39, 40 discontinuities 168–169, 173 carnival 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 51, 135, 171 discourse 15, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32–33, 34, 36, carnivalesque 26, 28, 30, 32–33, 37, 39, 39, 46, 47, 81–90, 115, 118, 119, 121, 40, 84, 135 127, 130, 131, 133, 136, 143, 156, 157, Caroline 108 158, 163 Celestial 94, 98, 99 disembodiment 52, 171–173 chain gang 55, 180 disremembering 49, 143, 171 Chicken Little 18, 22 disruption 26, 32, 34, 37, 38, 40 Cholly 11, 14, 15 District Storyville 101, 102 chora 87, 88 Divine 72 Christianity 70, 71 Doctor Street 27 Christine 92, 95, 96, 97, 99 doll 12, 61, 145, 171 circularity 13, 17, 45, 53, 128, 169 Dominique, island of 38 circle, hermeneutic 128 Dorcas Manfred 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65–66, City, the 60–61, 63, 65, 75, 79, 85 85 Civil Rights 66, 69, 93, 104, 144, 173 Douglass, Frederick 144, 155–156 Civil Rights movement 68, 93, 95, 143, 146 dream 104, 171 Civil War 46, 75, 108, 109 Dreaming Emmett 101, 104–106 Cixous, Hel´ ene` 87, 88, 89 Clarence Thomas hearings 125, 126–128 ecriture´ feminine´ 87, 88 Claudia 12, 13, 14, 15–16, 140, 158 Edward Gaines 107 Claudia’s mother 11, 180 Elijah 167

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Ella 55, 56 Hill, Anita 126, 127 Ellison, Ralph 12, 120, 158 history 39, 46, 47, 48, 57, 67, 72, 73, 76, 77, epigraph 17, 45, 72, 77–78, 79, 85, 87 80, 92, 93, 107, 109, 127, 139, 140, Eva Peace 21, 22, 23 142, 144, 168, 169, 170, 172, 173, 176, exorcism 45, 52 177, 178, 179 “Home” 134–136, 151, 175 fable 32, 38, 177 Honey and Rue Felice 65 Hospital Tommy 28 feminism 72, 78, 87–90, 166, 179 humor 16, 27, 32, 36, 142 ﬁre 18, 95 hunt 30–31, 34 Flying African 27, 31, 32, 35, 39, 177 hunters, Djoliba 30 folklore 26, 29, 36, 38, 57, 59, 86, 144, 146, Hunter’s Hunter 63 181 Foucault, Michel 81–82, 84, 87, 89, 168, identity 11, 45, 53, 63, 68, 142, 165, 169, 173 172, 175 Founding/Old Fathers 75, 78, 80, 87, Imitation of Life 13 89 improvisation 63–64, 65 Freddie 29 incest 14, 95 freedom 166, 167, 171, 172 individual 84, 170–172, 175 French Feminists 81, 89 infanticide 43, 46, 52, 170, 178, 181 Freud, Sigmund 21, 87 inscription 52, 83, 89, 153, 154 Frieda 14 body as document 168, 170 friendship 21, 62, 92, 99, 104, 160 intertextuality 13–14, 34, 84, 87, 89, 121, future 17, 143, 160 127 inversion 13–15, 28, 66, 177 Garner (Slavemaster) 54, 55 invisibility 23, 39, 47 Garner, Margaret (historical) 45, 48, 53, 82, irony 36, 66, 107, 143 107, 108, 109, 143, 169 Isle des Chevaliers 33, 34, 38 Gates Jr., Henry Louis 32, 117, 171, 172 gaze 13, 130, 152, 153–154, 160 Jadine Childs 33, 35, 37, 38–39, 40 gender 68, 69, 76, 87, 175, 178, 180 jazz 31, 33, 36, 37, 63–65, 79, 85, 102, 140 gender relations 94 Jazz 43, 59, 60, 61, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75, 76, Geraldine 15 77, 78, 79, 85–86, 89, 116, 121, 160, ghost 44, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 61, 166, 168, 171–173, 178, 179, 180 70, 76, 116, 130, 159, 167, 170, Jezebel 167, 179 171 Joe Trace 59, 60, 62, 64, 65, 85, 86, 172 Golden Gray 60, 61, 62 Joe’s mother (See also Wild) 60, 63 gravestone 51, 52, 84, 99 Jude 21, 22 griot 28, 30, 32, 34, 130, 132, 133 Julia 96, 97 Guitar 28, 29, 31, 180 Junior 98

Halle 47, 49, 82, 180 K.D. 72 hands 19, 53, 66 Kundera, Milan 163, 164, 165 Harlem Book of the Dead, The 59 Harlem Renaissance 60, 68, 73, 79 L 93, 94, 96, 97, 98 Haven 68, 69, 75 L’Arbe de la Croix 33, 35, 36, 38, 40 Hazel 140 Lacan, Jacques 62, 87, 88 healing 30, 44, 51, 62, 65–66, 180 language 16, 26, 27, 30, 35, 37, 39, 40, 46, Heed 92, 95, 96, 97, 99 48, 55–56, 57, 63, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 83, hegemony 13, 34, 135, 154, 157, 169 85, 87, 89, 101, 102, 104, 105–107, 116, Hel´ ene` Wright 18, 21, 22 118, 119, 121, 125, 126, 127, 130–132, heteroglossia 26, 32, 35, 39 133, 135, 141, 142, 151, 152, 153, 154, heterosexuality 22, 172 166, 167, 169, 171, 173, 176, 177–178

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language of master 127 mourning 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 70, 179 language of nature 34 mulatto 67, 108 language, restoration of 16 multivocality 79 language, spoken 106 murder 18, 43, 45, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 59, 62, language, subversive 32, 35 77, 78, 82, 104, 109, 140 manipulation of 17 music 86, 102, 107, 118, 142, 180 Legba 37 myth 14–15, 29, 33, 34, 35, 38, 40, 67, 83, Lillian Garner 47 127, 140, 170, 173, 177, 181 Lone 77 loss 14, 50, 52, 53, 54, 61, 63, 65, 70, 90, 93 Nag Hammadi, The 77 love 15, 16, 21, 46, 48, 51, 53, 59, 60, 62, naming and un-naming 19, 26, 28, 31, 62, 63, 66, 72, 73, 83, 85, 92, 96, 97, 99, 181 104, 108, 144, 172, 175 Nan 48 love, excessive 52 narrative/narration 15, 26, 27, 37, 45, 63, love-making 22, 45, 46, 49, 51, 96, 99 73, 131, 173, 177 Love 92–99, 160, 168, 179 narrator 15, 16, 17, 29, 32, 34, 63, 64–66, Luther and Calvin 30 69, 76, 78, 103, 152, 155, 156–157, 158, lynching 29, 49, 111n.10 169–170, 171–173, 177 Nation of Islam 71, 80 Macon Dead 36 nature 30, 34–35 MacTeers, the 15 Nebuchadnezzar 19 magic 33, 71, 142 Nel 18, 20, 21, 22 magic realism 71, 125, 159, 177 Nelson Lord 53 Margaret Garner (historical, character in newspaper 48, 86, 144 opera) 101, 106–110 Nobel Lecture 81, 126, 130–132, 133, 166, Margaret Street 33, 35, 37 167 Maginot Line 16 Nobel Prize 45 Marie Ther´ ese` 39 Numbers (See also “124”) 78, 80 maroons 33, 39, 40 Mary Magna 70, 72, 88 Ohio 107, 109 Mavis 72 Ondine 35, 37 May 94, 96 ontology 76, 78, 171 Medallion 19 oppression 37, 40, 46, 52, 66, 83, 178 media 29, 128, 129, 136, 179 orality 55, 83, 176, 180 memory 29, 32, 43–44, 47, 49–50, 52, 56, oral tradition 141 57, 59, 61, 67, 70, 76, 103, 104, 105, orphan 59, 60, 103 106, 144, 168, 173, 179 other 82, 84, 86, 128, 135, 164 Menus Harper 69 othering 119, 127, 153, 159 middle class 32, 60, 92 middle class, African American 29 paradise 35, 69, 80 middle class, white 16 Paradise 43, 59, 66–73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, Middle Passage 46, 48, 54, 55, 60, 79 80, 87–89, 103, 160, 168, 176, 178, migration 66, 75, 79, 85 179 milk 49, 54 parody 27, 28, 35, 80, 89 Milkman Dead 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 37, past 14, 35, 44, 45, 48, 50, 56, 65, 67, 77, 39, 40, 180 106, 140, 143, 145, 160, 181 Miss Esther 80 Pat Best 68, 69, 79, 80 mixed-race 60, 61, 68 patriarchy 72, 73, 78, 87, 94, 178 monologue 48, 53, 55, 76, 97, 140 patriarch 68, 69, 92, 98 mother 72, 89, 105, 180 patriarchy, white 83 mother and daughter 53, 55, 118 Paul D 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 82, 83, motherhood 52, 54, 61, 179 84, 180 mothering, lack of 72 Pauline Breedlove 13, 14, 15, 157

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Pecola Breedlove 11–12, 13, 14–16, 153–154, scar 18, 51, 170 157, 158 Schoolteacher 46, 51, 83, 84 Pecola and Peola 13 Schoolteacher’s nephews 46, 51, 55 pedophilia 92, 96, 99 Sein de Vieilles 35 Persephone 14 self 15, 20, 21, 27, 43, 45, 53, 54, 65, 83, 86, Piedade 72, 89 88, 134, 135, 139, 144, 158, 164, 170, Pilate 36, 180 175, 179 Playing in the Dark 102, 115, 116, 118–119, self-confidence/self-esteem 15, 88, 98, 157 121, 122, 146, 153, 162, 165 self-consciousness 45, 103, 158 Plum 18 self-deception 128 postmodern/postmodernism 44, 76, 129, 168 self-destruction 52, 94 present 12, 45, 50, 56, 68, 77, 79, 106, 173 self-hatred 15, 16, 50, 61, 69, 144 pre-symbolic 87–88 self-reflexivity 47, 48 prostitute/prostitution 12, 15, 16, 85, 93, 102 semiotics 88, 129, 157 Semiotique 87, 89 quest 26, 33, 40, 177, 180 Seneca 72 Sethe 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52–53, 54, 55, race 50, 69, 76, 92, 117, 119, 164, 175, 178 57, 78, 82–83, 84, 90, 159, 170, 171, race relationships 103, 177 180, 181 race riots 60, 179 Sethe’s mother 47, 48, 51, 54 racial purity 67 sexuality 29, 95, 180 racial stereotype 103 sex, heterosexual 92 racism 23, 61, 76, 116, 120, 129, 135, 175, sex, interracial 105 182 sexual desires 39 racism, scientific 46 sexual rights 108 Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power 125, Shadrach 19 126–128 Shadrack 19–20 Railroad Tommy 28, 29, 125 Shalimar 29, 30, 34, 35 rape 15, 46, 47, 54–55, 108, 109 Sidney Childs 35, 36 reader/reading 44, 45, 63, 64, 85, 86, 102, sign 40 103, 118, 132, 133, 134, 145, 146, 151, signification 27, 28, 38 152, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, signifyin’ 13, 27, 29–30, 32, 36 165, 169–170, 173, 176, 177, 178 specifyin’ 36 “Recitatif” 101, 102–104, 153 silence 87 Reconstruction 46, 59, 60, 67, 75 Silent Protest Parade 179 religion 66, 69–70, 71, 79 Simpson, O. J. 128–130, 135 remembering 43, 47, 48, 52, 54, 67, 170, 171 Sing Byrd 180 remembrance 43, 67 Sixo 52, 83, 180 rememory 79, 168, 169, 170, 181 slavery 37, 43, 44, 45, 46, 51, 52, 54, 56, 79, revenant 44, 70 82, 107, 119, 120, 131, 144, 156, 168, Reverend Misner 68 170, 177, 178, 179 ritual 16, 44, 47, 70, 142 slave 33, 35, 44, 46, 51, 56, 59, 67, 81, 94, Riviere,` Pierre 82 118, 128, 129, 132, 165, 170, 178–179 Romen 99 slave-holder 34, 46, 54, 108, 119, 179, 181 “Rootedness” 94, 151, 154, 175 slave narrative 165, 169, 170, 178, 179 Rose Dear 61 slave ship 48, 54, 56 Ruby, Oklahoma 66, 68, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, State of Missouri vs. Celia: A Slave 107 78, 79, 80, 87 Soane Morgan 68, 70, 72 Soaphead Church 15 Sandler Gibbons 94, 97 Solomon 29, 31, 39 Saul 29, 30 Son Green 32–33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38–40 scapegoat 16, 67, 87, 129 song 31, 34, 57, 70, 89, 101, 144

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Song of Solomon 26–32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40, Valerian Street 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 125, 141, 160, 168, 176, 177, 179, 180, vernacular 16, 26–29, 30, 31, 34, 36, 45, 101, 181 106, 141, 155 sound 57, 63, 78, 79, 143 Vida 98 Stamp Paid 50, 55, 56, 82, 83, 180 violence 17, 52, 131, 142 Steward Morgan 69 Violet Trace 59–60, 61, 64, 65, 86, 87, storytelling 49, 55, 76, 77, 104, 146 172 storyteller 40, 170 voice 15, 22, 34, 53, 57, 64, 73, 79, 89, 130, Storyville 85, 102 155, 170–173, 177, 180 suicide 60, 61 voiceless 46, 47, 177 Sula 17–23, 118, 142, 160, 168, 177, 179, voices 32, 33, 84, 87, 127, 133, 181 140 Sula 17, 18–19, 20, 21, 22 Vodoun 31, 34 Sula and Nel 21 Voodoo 133 Sula and Shadrack 18 supernatural 78, 79, 80, 171 Walters 29 Swamp Hags 34 war 18, 19, 75, 131, 132 Sweet Home 31, 48, 54, 82 Vietnam War Sweetie Fleetwood 72 war veteran 18 Sydney and Ondine Childs 33 World War I 18, 75 symbolic order 87, 88 World War II 12 West Africa 30, 31, 34 Tamara 105 West African epistemology 176 Tar Baby 26, 32–40, 117, 160, 179 Westward Expansion 66, 73 tar baby 39, 40 white Tea 80 America 26, 37, 68 Thomas, Clarence 127, 128, 135 characters 33 Till, Emmett 28–29, 104–105, 106, 108, gaze 11–12, 23 111n.10 power system 27, 40, 67, 84, 164 tradition 16, 32, 44, 94, 130, 133 white girl 76, 103 transformation 31, 34, 38–39, 44, 110, 160 white mistress 47, 118 trauma 15, 17, 19, 44, 46, 49, 51, 59, 61, 67 white people 17, 50 trickster 32, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40 white psyche 51 trilogy, the 43 white woman 144 True Belle 61 whiteness 117, 122 truth 81, 82, 89, 106, 176 Wild 60, 62, 63 word 81, 83, 84, 85 unspeakable, the 44, 56, 115, 122, 172 “Unspeakable Things Unspoken” 115, Yacobowski, Mr. 12, 153–154, 159 116–118, 122, 153, 163, 165, 176 urban 14, 29, 36, 75, 79, 139, 140 Zecheriah 69

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