Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-165) and index.
The Black Atlantic as a bridge between postcolonial and African American literary studies -- Postcolonial counter-discourse : Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul -- Signifyin(g) : Walter Mosley, Pauline Hopkins, Toni Morrison -- The Black Atlantic : Harry Dean, Harriet Jacobs, Alice Walker