About this volume / Mildred R. Mickle

Biographical sketch : James McBride / Mildred R. Mickle

On James McBride / Mildred R. Mickle

James McBride's The Good Lord Bird : a pluralist approach / Robert C. Evans

The critique of history in James McBride's works / Mildred R. Mickle

On a forgotten front : James McBride's Miracle at St. Anna and the fiction of the Italian Campaign of World War II / Martin Kich

Reading James McBride : a literature review of secondary sources about James McBride and his writings / Martin Kich

James McBride's The Color of Water : some reasons for its popularity / Robert C. Evans

The color of still waters : McBride, Obama, and the fierce urgency of the new now / Tahirah Duncan Walker

Superstition's role in shaping identity throughout history and the film adaptation of James McBride's Miracle at St. Anna / Brianna Toth

Learning the code : a deconstruction of archetypes of oppression, transformation, and freedom in James McBride's Song Yet Sung / Abandon Shuman

James McBride on The Good Lord Bird : evidence from interviews / Robert C. Evans

James McBride's The Good Lord Bird : assessments by early reviewers / Kelley Jeans

James McBride's The Good Lord Bird and the peculiar legacies of Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner / Justin Mellette

Unlikely witnesses to convulsive and consternating history : the narrators of James McBride's The Good Lord Bird and Thomas Berger's Little Big Man / Martin Kich

James McBride and James Brown : the varied appeal of Kill 'Em and Leave / Johnathon T. Lawrence

James McBride's short fiction : "Father Abe" / Liyang Dong and Tana Jackson Shealey.