Introduction. Willa Cather's southern connections / Ann Romines
Willa Cather and the question of sympathy : an unofficial story / Judith Fetterley
"Dock burs in yo' pants" : reading Cather through Sapphira and the slave girl / Joseph R. Urgo
Political silence and hist'ry in Sapphira and the slave girl / Tomas Pollard
No place like home : reading Sapphira and the slave girl against the great Depression / Shelley Newman
Whites playing in the dark : southern conversation in Willa Cather's Sapphira and the slave girl / Roseanne V. Camacho
"A kind of family feeling about Nancy" : race and the hidden threat of incest in Sapphira and the slave girl / Mako Yoshikawa
"The dangerous journey" : Toni Morrison's reading of Sapphira and the slave girl / Marilyn Mobley McKenzie
Race, labor, and domesticity in Cather's Sapphira and the slave girl / Gayle Wald
"The pull of race and blood and kindred" : Willa Cather's southern inheritance / Lisa Marcus
"A race without consonants" : My mortal enemy as reconstruction narrative / Robert K. Miller
Henry Colbert, gentleman : bound by the code / Mary R. Ryder
White dirt : the surreal racial landscapes of Willa Cather's south / Patricia Yaeger
The interlocking works of Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow / Merrill Maguire Skaggs
"Aeneas at Washington" and The professor's house : Cather and the southern agrarians / Elsa Nettels
O'Connor's vision and Cather's fiction / John J. Murphy
Playing in the mother country : Cather, Morrison, and the return to Virginia / Janis P. Stout
Dressing for the part : [what's] the matter with clothes / Cynthia Griffin Wolff.
