Narratives of African American Women's Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century Philosophical Pragmatism: The Black Maternal Archetype and the Communities of Creative Democracy.- Chapter 3: The Narrative of Creative Democracy in the Harlem Renaissance.- Chapter 4: The Search for Beautiful Experience in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun.- Chapter 5: Creative Democracy in One Community: Literary Pragmatism in Jessie Fauset's The Chinaberry Tree.- Chapter 6: Breaking Down Creative Democracy: The Cycle of Experience and Truth in Nella Larsen's Quicksand .- Chapter 7: Securing the Archetype and the Community: Irene Redfield's Resistance to Creative Democracy in Nella Larsen's Passing .- Chapter 8: "She Told Them About Her Trips to the Horizon": Creative Democracy in the Short Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.