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v Contents Acknowledgments vii 1. Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Subjectivity 1 2. Multiple Representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire 64 3. The Trickster Figure, The African American Virtual Subject, and Percival Everett’s Erasure 101 4. Using Jazz Music and Aesthetics to Redescribe the African American in Toni Morrison’s Jazz 137 5. Revolting to Sustain Psychic Life: Bonnie Greer’s Hanging by Her Teeth and the Encounter with the Other 175 6. Virtual-Actual Reality and Clarence Major’s Reflex and Bone Structure 212 7. The Jungian/African Collective Unconscious, Jazz Aesthetics, and Xam Cartiér’s Muse-Echo Blues 245 8. Conclusion 297 Notes 301 Works Cited 309 Index 325 ...