James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays /
This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines the reciprocal literary relationship between James Baldwin and Toni Morrison on topics ranging from their use of jazz and the blues, to their critiques of whiteness and their brilliant analyses of America?s racial politics. In p...
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New York, N.Y. ; Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction--Lovalerie King & Lynn Orilla Scott * Watchers Watching Watchers: Positioning Characters and Readers in Baldwin?s "Sonny?s Blues" and Morrison?s "Recitatif"--Trudier Harris * Playing a Mean Guitar: The Legacy of Staggerlee in Baldwin and Morrison--Quentin Miller * Baldwin?s Bop n?Morrison?s Mood: Bebop and Race in James Baldwin?s Another Country and Toni Morrison?s Jazz--Keren Omry * Narrating the Beat of the Heart, Jazzing the Text of Desire: A Comparative Interface of James Baldwin?s Another Country and Toni Morrison?s Jazz--Anna Ǩrchy * Unseen or Unspeakable? Racial Evidence in Baldwin and Morrison's Non-fiction--Richard Schur * James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: White Work--Jonathan Mirin * Property, Race, and Ethics in the Fiction of Baldwin and Morrison--Lovalerie King * History and Memory in Go Tell It on the Mountain and Beloved--Babacar M'Baye * Refiguring the Flesh: The Word, The Body and The Rituals of Being in Beloved and Go Tell It on the Mountain--Carol Evette Henderson* The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Alchemy of Race and Sexuality--E. Frances White * The Theme of Incest in Baldwin and Morrison--Lynn Orilla Scott * Revising Revision: Methodologies of Love, Desire, and Resistance in Beloved and If Beale Street Could Talk--Michelle Phillips * The Theme of Love in Baldwin and Morrison--Wilfred Samuels * Treatment of the Black Church in Baldwin and Morrison--Keith Byerman * Coming into Her Own: The Women of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison--Jocelyn Chadwick * James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: A History of Interaction--Marilyn Atlas.
- Introduction: Baldwin and Morrison in dialogue / Lovalerie King
- Baldwin's bop 'n' Morrison's mood: bebop and race in James Baldwin's Another country and Toni Morrison 's Jazz / Anna Kérchy
- Revising revision: methodologies of love, desire, and resistance in Beloved and If Beale Street could talk / Michelle H. Phillips
- Revising the incest story: Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and James Baldwin's Just above my head / Lynn Orilla Scott
- Watchers watching watchers: positioning characters and readers in Baldwin's "Sonny blues" and Morrison 's "Recitatif" / Trudier Harris
- Playing a mean guitar: the legacy of Staggerlee in Baldwin and Morrison / D. Quentin Miller
- Refiguring the flesh: the word, the body, and the rituals of being in Beloved and Go tell it on the mountain / Carol E. Henderson
- Resistance against racial, sexual, and social oppression in Go tell it on the mountain and Beloved / Babacar M'Baye
- Secular word, sacred flesh: preachers in the fiction of Baldwin and Morrison / Keith Byerman
- Unseen or unspeakable? Racial evidence in Baldwin's and Morrison's nonfiction / Richard Schur
- The art of whiteness in the nonfiction of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison / Jonathan Mirin
- The evidence of things not seen: the alchemy of race and sexuality / E. Frances White
- Femininity, abjection, and (Black) masculinity in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Keith Mitchell.
