Acknowledgements v // Foreword vii - Joan E. Steiner // Introduction: European Scholars Teaching African American Texts 1 - Karla Šimcíková // Part One // Scandinavia // African American, Danish American, Black Danish: Teaching Nella Larsen’s Quicksand in Denmark 11 - Martyn Bone // “We Don’t Think of Those Things Here”: On Teaching African American Texts in Sweden 33 - Lena Ahlin // Part Two // Eastern / Central Europe // Of the Use and Abuse of Difference: Some Thoughts on Teaching African American Literature in Poland 47 - Ewa Luczak // Understanding the World(s) We Live in: Teaching African American Literature in the Czech Republic 57 - Karla Šimcíková // Part Three // Western / Southern Europe // Teaching African American Literature in Portugal: An Exercise in Citizenship - Isabel Caldeira // Mapping New Frontiers: African American Studies in France - Arlette Frund // Invisibility as a Metaphor of the Other: Teaching Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in Italy - Maria Luisa PozziLolli, Mariella Stagi Scarpa // Appendix // The Challenges of Being a “Doubly Double Outsider”; or, When a Czech Scholar Teaches African American Literature in the United States - Karla Šimcíková // Notes on Contributors