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brings together leading scholars from around the worldto explore a range of topics in the study of African and African American culture,literature,and history.The Institute series provides a publishing forum for outstand-ing work deriving from colloquia,research groups,and conferences sponsored bythe Institute.Whether undertaken by individuals or collaborative groups,the booksappearing in this series work to foster a stronger sense of national and internationalcommunity and a better understanding of diasporic history.  \nSeries Editors  \nHenry Louis Gates,Jr  \nW.E.B.Du Bois Professor of the HumanitiesHarvard University  \nRichardNewmanResearch OfficerThe W.E.B.Du Bois InstituteHarvard University  \nThe Open Sore of a ContinentA Personal Narrative of the Nigerian CrisisWole Soyinka  \nFrom Emerson to King  \nDemocracy,Race,and the Politics of ProtestAnita Haya Patterson  \nPrimitivist Modernism  \nBlack Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic ModernismSieglinde Lemke  \nThe Burden of Memory,the Muse of ForgivenessWole Soyinka  \nColor by Fox  \nThe Fox Network and the Revolution in Black TelevisionKristal Brent Zook  \nBlack Imagination and the Middle PassageMaria DiedrichHenry Louis Gates,Jr.Carl Pedersen  \nAutobiographical Inscriptions  \nForm,Personhood,and the American Woman Writer of ColorBarbara Rodríguez  \nCrossing Color  \nTranscultural Space and Place in Rita Dove's Poetry,Fiction,and DramaTherese Steffen  \n20OI  \nOXFORD  \nUNIVERSITY PRESS  \nOxford New York  \nAthens Auckland Bangkok Bogotá Bucnos Aires CalcuttaCape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong IstanbulKarachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City MumbaiNairobi Paris São Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw  \nand associated companies inBerlin Ibadan  \nCopyright ◎20oI by Oxford University Press  \nPublished by Oxford University Press,Inc.I98 Madison Avenue,New York,New York IOO16  \nOxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.  \nPublished with the support of the National Foundation for the Arts and Sciences.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the prior permission of Oxford University Press.  \nRita Dove's texts are reprinted with the kind permission of the author.All rights reserved with Rita Dove,Charlottesville.Virginia.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataSteffen,Therese  \nCrossing color:transcultural space and place in Rita Dove's poetry.fiction,and drama/Therese Steffen.  \np.cm,  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBNO-I9-5I3440-0  \nI.Dove,Rita—Criticism and interpretation.2.Place(Philosophy)in literature.  \n3.Culture in literature.4.Ethnicity in literature.5.Race in literature.  \n6.Afro-Americans in litcrature.I.Title.  \nPS3554.0884Z87200I  \n8II′'.54-dczI 00-024573  \n135798642  \nThinking is a dialogue 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