Gayl Jones

Casey Clabough is an associate professor of English at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia. He serves as the literature editor for the Encyclopedia Virginia, a project of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He lives in Appomattox.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Abbreviations      Foreword by Daniel Cross Turner      Introduction: Liberating Voice      1. “Toward an All-Inclusive Structure”: Early Fiction      2. Speaking the Grotesque: Short Fiction      3. Toward Feminine Mythopoetic Visions: Poetry      4. Afrocentric Recolonizations: 1990s Fiction      5. A Quest for Wholeness: Criticism      Conclusion: Liberated Voice      Appendix I: An Interview with Gayl Jones, by Claudia C. Tate      Appendix II: An Interview with Gayl Jones, by Charles H. Rowell      Annotated Bibliography and List of General Works Cited      Index