Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toni Morrison, African Literature, Chinua Achebe
1. "Things Fall Together": Or, Rootedness: The Village as Foundation
2. ReMemorying the (Village) Pasts Where the Rains Began to Beat Us: Things Fall Apart and Beloved
3. Slavery, Migration, Urbanity, Kindred Black Music, and the Anomies of New Village Black Subjectivities: No Longer at Ease and Jazz
4. On Black Village Havens Impelled by History, Impeded by Opposing Visions of the (Past) Wills of Gods and Founders: Arrow of God and Paradise
Conclusion: "May the Path Never Close"
Notes
Bibliography
Index