James Baldwin and Toni Morrison Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays [Hardcover]

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.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. K?rchy 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

In James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparing Critical and Theoretical Essays, the first book-length study of this literary dialogue, Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott offer an unprecedented range ol#,