Introduction

Part I – Writing 'Into the face of History'

Chapter I. Sketching a genealogy of parallel histories

Chapter II. Sounding out the voids of history:the slave trade and its 'ghost narratives'

Chapter III. Historical amnesia and prosthetic memory

Part II – The generic and aesthetic make-up of Crossing the River

Chapter I. Literary Filiations

Chapter II. Voicing history..

Part III – Post-Genealogies

Chapter I. Precarious homes

Chapter II. Of grafted limbs and post-genealogies.

Conclusion. Inhabiting the voids of history

Bibliography

Index