Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.
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Introduction : primal scenes of double consciousness -- Who is that masked woman? gender and Frantz Fanon -- Myths of masculinity : Frederick Douglass and the Oedipus complex -- The mulatto and the miscegenation taboo : Nella Larsen's ambivalent subject -- Blackness and class difference in William Faulkner -- Rites and responsibilities : Toni Morrison and object relations -- Afterword : biracial/multiracial-new subject?