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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

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