Protest and the Body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Reading a Man Like a Book: Bodies and Texts in Billy Budd Problems of the Body Body Politics Anxious Readings Embodied Texts and Textualized Bodies Fathers, Sons, Tensions Chapter Three: Producing Remembrance: John Dos Passos's Body in the Text Anatomy and a Mid-Life Crisis Vagabardage The (Un-)American Body Doing the People in Indifferent Voice Remembering the Body of an American A Tramp or a Middle-Class Intellectual-It's as Bad Either Way Chapter Four: How It Feels to Be Not-So-Young, Gifted, and Black: Passing and "De change uh Life" in Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston's Novel of Passing De Change uh Life Notes Bibliography Index