Table of Contents:
  • Stunted picaresques : Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God and Richard Wright's Native son
  • Ralph Ellison's Invisible man : exploring urban frontiers
  • Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland : black women and the picaresque tradition
  • Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon : dialectics of time and space
  • Charles Johnson's Faith and the good thing : the open journey as metaphysical quest
  • Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada : artistic prowess as endless voyage
  • Sherley Anne William's Dessa Rose : clearing space in time
  • Twenty-first-century journeys in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower.