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Acknowledgements Prologue - Justifying the margin: The cultural construction of soil Civilizing the race: The missionary nationalism of Chaadaev and Crummell Conserving the race: The emergence of cultural nationalism Notes from the underworld: Dostoevsky, Du Bois and the discovery of ethnic soul Recovering the native tongue: Turgenev, Chesnutt and Hurston Underground notes: Double-voicedness and the poetics of national identity Native sons against native soul: Maxim Gorky and Richard Wright Eurasians and New Negroes: The invention of multicultural nationalism Preserving the race: Rasputin, Naylor and the mystique of native soil Epilogue - Response and call: The African American dialogue with Bakhtin Notes Select bibliography Index

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