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Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface xiii Introduction: Spirit and Flesh: Black Female Aesthetics 1 1. The Cult of Nineteenth-Century Black Womanhood 12 2. Literary Interventions in Their Eyes Were Watching God 39 3. Contradictory Directives and the Erotics of Re-membering: New World Spiritual Practices and Black Female Subjectivity in Beloved 79 4. The Erotics of Change: Female Sexuality, Afro-Caribbean Spirituality, and a “Postmodern” Caribbean Identity in It Begins with Tears 141 5. Power, Eros, and Genocide: Capitalism and Black Female Subjectivity in The Farming of Bones 184 Epilogue 223 Notes 227 Works Cited 249 Index 261 ...