James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays

This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these authors side-by-side, this collection forges new avenues of discovery and interpretation related to their representations of African American and American literature and cultural experience.

Auteur
LOVALERIE KING is Assistant Professor of African American Language and Literature at Pennsylvania State University-University Park, USA. LYNN ORILLA SCOTT is Visiting Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, USA.

Contenu
Introduction; L. King&Lynn O. Scott Watchers Watching Watchers: Positioning Characters and Readers in Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues' and Morrison's 'Recitatif'; T.Harris Playing a Mean Guitar: The Legacy of Staggerlee in Baldwin and Morrison; Q.Miller Baldwin's Bop n'Morrison's Mood: Bebop and Race in James Baldwin's Another Country and Toni Morrison's Jazz; K.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; A. Kérchy Unseen or Unspeakable? Racial Evidence in Baldwin and Morrison's Non-fiction; R.Schur James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: White Work; J.Mirin Property, Race, and Ethics in the Fiction f Baldwin and Morrison; L.King History and Memory in Go Tell It on the Mountain and Beloved; B.M'Baye Refiguring the Flesh: The Word, The Body and The Rituals of Being in Beloved and Go Tell It On The Mountain; C.E.Henderson The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Alchemy of Race and Sexuality; E.F.White The Theme of Incest in Baldwin and Morrison; L.O.Scott Revising Revision: Methodologies of Love, Desire, and Resistance in Beloved and If Beale Street Could Talk: M.Phillips The Theme of Love in Baldwin and Morrison; W.Samuels Treatment of the Black Church inBaldwin and Morrison; K.Byerman Coming into Her Own: The Women of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison; J.Chadwick James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: A History of Interaction; M.Atlas