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 Another Country and Toni Morrison’s Jazz
Keren Omry

3. 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

4. Revising Revision: Methodologies of Love, Desire, and Resistance in Beloved and If Beale Street Could Talk
Michelle H. Phillips

5. Revising the Incest Story: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and James Baldwin’s Just Above My Head
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 Beloved and Go Tell It on the Mountain
Carol E. Henderson

9. Resistance Against Racial, Sexual, and Social Oppression in Go Tell It on the Mountain and Beloved
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 Giovanni’s Room and Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Keith Mitchell

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literary History, Literary Theory