King, Lovalerie
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays
1. Introduction: Baldwin and Morrison in Dialogue
Lovalerie King
2. Baldwin’s Bop ’N’ Morrison’s Mood: Bebop and Race in James Baldwin’s
Keren Omry
3. Narrating the Beat of the Heart, Jazzing the Text of Desire: A Comparative Interface of James Baldwin’s
Anna Kérchy
4. Revising Revision: Methodologies of Love, Desire, and Resistance in
Michelle H. Phillips
5. Revising the Incest Story: Toni Morrison’s
Lynn Orilla Scott
6. Watchers Watching Watchers: Positioning Characters and Readers in Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” and Morrison’s “Recitatif”
Trudier Harris
7. Playing a Mean Guitar: The Legacy of Staggerlee in Baldwin and Morrison
D. Quentin Miller
8. Refiguring the Flesh: The Word, the Body, and the Rituals of being in
Carol E. Henderson
9. Resistance Against Racial, Sexual, and Social Oppression in
Babacar M’Baye
10. Secular Word, Sacred Flesh: Preachers in the Fiction of Baldwin and Morrison
Keith Byerman
11. Unseen or Unspeakable? Racial Evidence in Baldwin’s and Morrison’s Nonfiction
Richard Schur
12. The Art of Whiteness in the Nonfiction of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison
Jonathan Mirin
13. The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Alchemy of Race and Sexuality
E. Frances White
14. Femininity, Abjection, and (Black) Masculinity in James Baldwin’s
Keith Mitchell
Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literary History, Literary Theory
- Editor
- King, Lovalerie
- Scott, Lynn Orilla
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2006
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 309 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230601383
- Printed ISBN
- 978-0-230-61972-2