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

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

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