Introduction
Part I – Writing 'Into the face of History'
Chapter I. Sketching a genealogy of parallel histories
Chapter II. Sounding out the voids of history:the slave trade and its 'ghost narratives'
Chapter III. Historical amnesia and prosthetic memory
Part II – The generic and aesthetic make-up of Crossing the River
Chapter I. Literary Filiations
Chapter II. Voicing history..
Part III – Post-Genealogies
Chapter I. Precarious homes
Chapter II. Of grafted limbs and post-genealogies.
Conclusion. Inhabiting the voids of history
Bibliography
Index