Contents -- Introduction: Self-Making and Freedom of Speech -- I: OUTCASTS OF THE UNIVERSE -- 1. Hawthorne's "Wakefield" and the Art of Self-Possession -- 2. Melville: Knowing Bartleby -- II: MASTERS AND SLAVES -- 3. Stowe: Ghosting in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- 4. Twain: The Twinning Principle in Puddn'head Wilson -- III: THE VILLAGE MODERNISTS -- 5. Anderson: The Play of Winesburg, Ohio -- 6. Flannery O'Connor and the Art of Displacement -- IV: THE AMERICAN MODERNISTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH -- 7. Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby: Fiction as Greatness -- 8. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: The Voice from the Coffin -- 9. Faulkner: Fusion and Confusion in Light in August -- 10. Hemingway's Garden of Eden: The Final Combat Zone -- V: THE AMERICAN POSTMODERNISTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH -- 11. John Hawkes, Skin Trader -- 12. Robert Coover: Fiction as Fission -- 13. Dis-Membering and Re-Membering in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 14. Don DeLillo: Rendering the Words of the Tribe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.