Comparative essays exploring the relation between Chesnutt's fictions and those of his literary contemporaries.

Iola Leroy by Frances Harper

• "The Feminine Mystique" (Miller)
• "Literary Heroes of Racial Prejudice" (Lund)
• "Treatment of Blacks in the South" (Jalil)
• "Sins of the Mother" (Galera)
• "Passing as a Form of Punishment and Social Convention" (Salvaggio)

The Leopard's Spots by Thomas Dixon

• "Violence and the South" (Fadden)
• "The Formation of Identity" (Frank)
• "What's in a Name?" (Smiles)

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

• "Issues of Racial Identity" (Kotake)
• "Influence of Author's Consciousness" (Witter)
• "Passing" (Williams)
• "Race, Ambiguity, and Definition" (Nicklen)
• "Twain vs. Chesnutt" (Chidanand)

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