James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays / co-editors, Lovalerie King, Lynn Orilla Scott.

Contributor King, Lovalerie.

Imprint:New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Descriptionviii, 300 p. ; 22 cm.

Note: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 / 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 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's 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 world, 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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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