Acknowledgments

Author's Note

Who You For?: Voice and the African-American Fiction of Democratic Identity

The Spoken in the Written Word: African-American Tales and the Middle Passage from Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings to The Conjure Woman

``By de Singin' uh de Song'': The Search for Reciprocal Voice in Cane

``Mah Tongue Is in Mah Friend's Mouf'': The Rhetoric of Intimacy and Immensity in Their Eyes Were Watching God

Frequencies of Eloquence: The Performance and Composition of Invisible Man

A Moveable Form: The Loose End Blues of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

The Hoop of Language: Politics and the Restoration of Voice in Meridian

Who We For?: The Extended Call of African-American Fiction

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