CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Part I Negotiating the Literary Marketplace -- Writing a Public Self -- Towards a New "Colored" Consciousness -- The Authority of Experience -- "This Other Eden" -- The Heir Unapparent -- Part II Outside the Metropolis -- In-Between Modernity -- New Negro Modernity -- Olive Schreiner, South Africa, and the Costs of Modernity -- "Tropical Ovaries" -- Two Talks with Khun Fa -- "Stage Business" as Citizenship -- Phenomena in Flux -- Part III The Shifting Terrain of Public Life -- The New Woman's Appetite for "Riotous Living" -- Djuna Barnes Makes a Specialty of Crime -- In Pursuit of an Erogamic Life -- Shift Work -- Afterword -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.