Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The politics and aesthetics of Métissage
  • Augustine's Confessions : poetics of harmony, or the ideal reader in the text
  • Silence and circularity in Ecce homo : "Und so erzähle ich mir mein Leben"
  • Autoethnography : the an-archic style of Dust tracks on a road
  • Con artists and storytellers : Maya Angelou's problematic sense of audience
  • Happiness deferred : Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon and the failure of enunciation
  • Privileged difference and the possibility of emancipation : The words to say it and A l'autre bout de moi
  • Anamnesis and Utopia : self-portrait of the web maker in A l'autre bout de moi.