Contents

• The geography of reunion : Thomas Dixon, Charles Chesnutt, and the McKinley expansionists
• Up from empire : James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South
• "Take your geography and trace it" : W.E.B. Du Bois and the reconstruction of the South
• "Members of the whole world" : Carson McCullers’s military fictions
• Mississippi on the Pacific : William Faulkner and Richard Wright in postwar Asia
• Epilogue : Alice Walker and the lost cause