Table of Contents: “…Men of color, women, and uppity art at the turn of the century / Elizabeth Ammons -- Nineteenth-century women poets and realism / Cheryl Walker -- "I can't write a book" / Nancy Walker -- Reading her/stories against his/stories in early Chinese American literature / Amy Ling -- Native American literatures and the canon / Patricia Okker -- Romance and realism / Sanford E. Marovitz -- Problems of representation in turn-of-the-century immigrant fiction / Susan K. …”