Table of Contents:
  • Mythopoeic realities
  • The subject(s) of diasporan desire : Jean Toomer as literary ancestor
  • Modalities of rememory : the womanist project
  • The reading, the writing, and the arithmetic of the Black masculinist project
  • Textual androgyny, the androgyne, and the many-tongued chorus of the common memory
  • The third gender among the common memory : unspeakables barely spoken
  • Conclusion : diasporan literacy, sacred geometry, and the visual arts.