Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- "Not Even Past" -- Introduction -- 1 /"Little Black Man": Repetition, the Lesbian Phallus, and the Southern Rape Complex in Sanctuary -- 2 /"Which Tooth Hit You First?": Nation, Home, Women, and Violence in Requiem for a Nun -- 3 /"Anyone with Half an Eye": Blackness and the Disaster of Narcissism in Quicksand -- 4 /"A Having Way": Fetishism and the Black Bourgeoisie in Passing -- 5 /"To Glorify the Negro": Photographic Shock and Blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.