1. Introduction: The Foreign Sounds of Dylan's Literary Art
Josh Toth and Nduka Otiono
Part I: Literature and Music
2. Restless Epitaphs: Revenance and Dramatic Tension in Bob Dylan's Early Narratives Damian A. Carpenter
3. Dylan's Deixis
Charles O. Hartman
4. Not Just Literature: Exploring the Performative Dimensions of Bob Dylan's Work
Keith Nainby
5. The Complexities of Freedom and Dylan's Liberation of the Listener
Astrid Franke
Part II: Performance and Literature
6. "Blowin' in the Wind" Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard, and the Question of American Identity
Katherine Weiss
7. Bob Dylan's "Westerns" Border Crossings and the Flight from "the Domestic"
John McCombe
8. "I Don't Do Sketches from Memory" Bob Dylan and Autobiography
Emily Wittman and Paul R. Wright
9. Beyond Genre: Lyrics, Literature, and the Influence of Bob Dylan's Transgressive Creative Imagination
Nduka Otiono
About the Author: Nduka Otiono is Assistant Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, CA. Along with two volumes of poetry and a collection of short stories, he is co-editor of Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria (2006).
Josh Toth is Associate Professor of English at MacEwan University, CA. He is author of The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary (2010) and Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion (2018).