Introduction: the problem with the title of this volume
1. Out of many one: the beginnings of a novelistic tradition, 1850s-1900s
2. Publish or perish: African American novels, 1900s-1920s
3. Aesthetics of race and culture: African American novels, 1920s-1940s
4. Home of the brave: African American novels, 1940s-1960s
5. Black arts and beyond: African American novels, 1960s-1970s
6. From margin to center: African American novels, 1970s-1990s
7. "Bohemian cult nats": African American novels, 1990s and beyond
pt. II Significant genres of the African American novel
Introduction: forms and functions
8. The neo-slave narrative
10. The speculative novel
11. African American pulp
12. The black graphic novel
13. African American novels from page to screen
14. Novels of the diaspora.
