Introduction: defining Jane CrowAt the point of no return: a native son and his Gorgon muse -- Gender conscriptions, class conciliations and the bourgeois blues aesthetic -- "Nobody could tell who this be": black and white doubles and the challenge to pedestal femininity -- "I'll see how crazy they think I am": pulping sexual violence, racial melancholia, and healthy citizenship -- Rereading the construction of womanhood in popular narratives of domesticity -- The audacity of hope: an American daughter and her dream for cultural hybridity -- Epilogue: refashioning Jane Crow and the black female body.
