Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.
Bio-Critical Introduction, State of the Art, and Outlook: The Aim of Crossing Color -- 1. Rita Dove's Macro-Poetics of Space -- 2. Rita Dove's Micro-Poetics of Space -- 3. Movements of a Marriage; Or, Looking Awry at U.S. History: Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah -- 4. Transcultural Space, Place, and Movement in the Bildungs- and Kunstlerroman: Through the Ivory Gate -- 5. Myths' Remakes -- 6. The Voyage Out: On the Bus with Rosa Parks