Abstract
ABSTRACT James McBride's first volume of short stories, Five Carat Soul (2017), depicts the relationship between history and the short story, setting white and black histories on a collision course. Its lead story, “The Under Graham Railroad Box Car Set,” explores how the value of an episode in history may be alternatively constructed, stifled, commodified, or recast in terms of African American experience and genres in order to underline the fact of slavery as a living force in American culture.
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