Who you for?: voice and the African-American fiction of democratic identity -- Spoken in the written word: African-American tales and the middle passage from Uncle Remus: His songs and sayings to The conjure woman -- "By de singin' uh de song": the search for reciprocal voice in Cane -- "Mah tongue is mah friend's mouf": the rhetoric of intimacy and immensity in Their eyes were watching God -- Frequencies of eloquence: the performance and composition of Invisible man -- A moveable form: the loose end blues of The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- Hoop of language: politics and the restoration of voice in Meridian -- Who we for?: the extended call of African-American fiction.