Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) and index.
Introduction: Teaching Domination and Democracy in the American Literary Canon -- Ch. 1. Putting Twain's Story Next to Hers in Morrison's Beloved -- Ch. 2. Huck Finn's Adventures "Playing in the Dark" -- Ch. 3. Learning from Invisibility and Blindness in Ellison's Invisible Man -- Ch. 4. The Challenges of Responsibility in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land -- Conclusion: Learning from Difference