Negotiating Difference

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading across the Lines
1: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Reading
2: A Black Man's Place in Black Feminist Criticism
3: Negotiations of Power: White Critics, Black Texts, and the
Self-Referential Impulse
4: Representing Rape: On Spike, Iron Mike, and the "Desire Dynamic"
5: "Unruly and Let Loose": Myth, Ideology, and Gender in Song of Solomon
6: "The Crookeds with the Straights": On Fences, Race, and the Politics of
Adaptation
7: "A Slave to the Rhythm": Essential(ist) Transmutations; or, The Curious
Case of Michael Jackson
Notes
Index