Literary Production: A Silence in Afro-American Critical Practice -- The Dominant American Literary Establishment and the Production of the Afro-American Text -- Sixties' Social Movements, the Literary Establishment, and the Production of the Afro-American Text -- History, the Black Nationalist Discourse, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- History, the Feminist Discourse, and The Third Life of Grange Copeland -- History, the Blues Idiom Style, and Train Whistle Guitar -- The Song of Morrison's Sula: History, Mythical Thought, and the Production of the Afro-American Historical Past -- The Post-Sixties, the Ideological Apparatus, and the Afro-American Text