Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Subjectivity -- Chapter 2: Multiple Representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire -- Chapter 3: The Trickster Figure, The African American Virtual Subject, and Percival Everett's Erasure -- Chapter 4: Using Jazz Music and Aesthetics to Redescribe the African American in Toni Morrison's Jazz -- Chapter 5: Revolting to Sustain Psychic Life: Bonnie Greer's Hanging by Her Teeth and the Encounter with the Other -- Chapter 6: Virtual-Actual Reality and Clarence Major's Reflex and Bone Structure -- Chapter 7: The Jungian/African Collective Unconscious, Jazz Aesthetics, and Xam Cartiér's Muse-Echo Blues -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 7 -- Works Cited -- Index.