Up from bondage: the literatures of Russian and African American soul

Justifying the margin : the cultural construction of "soul"

Civilizing the race : the missionary nationalism of Chaadaev and Crummell

Conserving the race : the emergence of cultural nationalism

Notes from the underworld : Dostoevsky, DuBois, and the unveiling of ethnic "soul"

Recovering the native tongue : Turgenev, Chesnutt, and Hurston

Underground notes : double-voicedness and the poetics of national identity

Native sons against native soul : Maxim Gorky and Richard Wright

Eurasians and new negroes : the invention of multicultural nationalism

Preserving the race : Rasputin, Naylor, and the mystique of native "soul"

Response and call : the African American dialogue with Bakhtin.