Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction: The Most Famous Person Nobody Knows
PART 1 The Life and Political Times of Margaret Walker
"I Want to Write, I Want to Write the Songs of My People": The Emergence of Margaret Walker
Black Women Writers at Work: An Interview with Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker: Black Woman Writer of the South
Down from the Mountaintop
The "Intricate Design" of Margaret Walker's "Humanism": Revolution, Vision, History
PART 2 From For My People to This Is My Century: The Poetry of Margaret Walker
The "Etched Flame" of Margaret Walker: Literary and Biblical Re-Creation in Southern History
Fields Watered with Blood: Myth and Ritual in the Poetry of Margaret Walker
"Bolder Measures Crashing Through": Margaret Walker's Poem of the Century
Folkloric Elements in Margaret Walker's Poetry
Performing Community: Margaret Walker's Use of Poetic "Folk Voice"
The South in Margaret Walker's Poetry: Harbor and Sorrow Home
For My People: Notes on Visual Memory and Interpretation
Poet of History, Poet of Vision: A Review of This Is My Century
PART 3 Jubilee: Folklore, History, and Vyry's Voice
Music as Theme: The Blues Mode in the Works of Margaret Walker
"Oh Freedom": Women and History in Margaret Walker's Jubilee
Black Folk Elements in Margaret Walker's Jubilee
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Vyry's Kitchen: The Black Female Folk Tradition in Margaret Walker's Jubilee
"Rumblings" in Folk Traditions Served Southern Style
The Use of Spaces in Margaret Walker's Jubilee
The Violation of Voice: Revising the Slave Narrative
Jubilee, or Setting the Record Straight
The Black Woman as Mulatto: A Personal Response to the Character of Vyry.

Epilogue: "To Capture a Vision Fair": Margaret Walker and the Predicament of the African American Woman Intellectual
Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Margaret Walker
Contributors
Index.