Chapter 1 Introduction: The Gothic—Old and New, White and Black

Chapter 3 Babo Speaks Back: White Violence and Black Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Black Fiction

Chapter 4 “The Dark Sunshine Aboveground”: Questions of Progress and Migration in Toomer and Ellison

Chapter 5 “What, After All, Am I”: The Terrors of (Collective) Identity

Chapter 6 “Murdered by Piece-Meal”: The Destruction of African American Family in Beloved

Chapter 7 The Lost Voices of Tims Creek: Narrative Reinscription in A Visitation of Spirits and “Let the Dead Bury Their Dead”

Chapter 8 Conclusion: African American Gothic—Uncovering a (Not So) New Tradition