Acknowledgments

Introduction: Clarence Major's Transgressive Voice and Double Consciousness as an African American Postmodernist ArtistBernard W. Bell

POETRY

``The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage''

``Inscription for the First Baptist Church as It Comes Out on Saturday to Park''

``The General Sense of Self''

``Conflict''

``The Unfaithful Wife: A New Philosophy''

``Private Line''

``Motion Picture''

``Vietnam''

``Author of an Attitude''

``Dismal Moment Passing''

``My Child''

``The Design''

``Overbreak''

PROSE

Excerpt from Dirty Bird Blues

Excerpt from Such Was the Season

Excerpt from My Amputations

Excerpt from Reflex and Bone Structure

Excerpt from All-Night Visitors

LITERARY SELF-PORTRAITS

Necessary Distance: Afterthoughts on Becoming a Writer

Clarence Major

``I Follow My Eyes'':An Interview with Clarence Major

Larry Mc Caffery

Jerzy Kutnik

CRITICAL ESSAYS

Reading the Painterly Text: Clarence Major's ``The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage''

Linda Furgerson Selzer

To Define an Ultimate Dimness: The Poetry of Clarence Major

Nathaniel Mackey

Clarence Major's Innovative Fiction

Jerome Klinkowitz

The Double Vision of Clarence Major: Painter and Writer

Lisa C. Roney

Reflex and Bone Structure: The Black Anti-Detective Novel

Stephen F. Soitos

Clarence Major's All-Night Visitors: Calibanic Discourse and Black Male Expression

James W. Coleman

``I Was a Weird Example of Art'': My Amputations as Cubist Confession

Stuart Klawans

Clarence Major's Homecoming Voice in Such Was the Season

Bernard W. Bell

Against Commodification: Zuni Culture in Clarence Major's Native American Texts

Steve Hayward

Clarence Major's Singing Voice(s)

Joe Weixlmann

Selected Bibliography of Clarence Major's Works

Contributors

Index