Introduction : Clarence Major's transgressive voice and double consciousness as an African American postmodernist artist / Bernard W. Bell -- Necessary distance : afterthoughts on becoming a writer / Clarence Major -- "I follow my eyes" : an interview wtih Clarence Major / Larry McCaffery and Jerzy Kutnik -- Reading the painterly text : Clarence Major's "The slave trade" : view from the middle passage / Linda Furgerson Selzer -- To define an ultimate dimness : the poetry of Clarence Major / Nathaniel Mackey -- Clarence Major's innovative fiction / Jerome Klinkowitz -- The double vision of Clarence Major : painter and writer / Lisa C. Roney -- Reflex and bone structure : the Black anti-detective novel / Stephen F. Soitos -- Clarence Major's All-night visitors : calibanic discourse and Black male expression / James W. Coleman -- "I was a weird example of art" : My amputations as cubist confession / Stuart Klawans -- Clarence Major's homecoming voice in Such was the season / Bernard W. Bell -- Against commodification : Zuni culture in Clarence Major's native American texts / Steve Hayward -- Clarence Major's singing voice(s) / Joe Weixlmann.