James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: comparative critical and theoretical essays

This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines JamesBaldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these two authors side-by-side, this collection forges new avenues of discovery and interpretation related to their representations of African American culturalexperience. INDICE: Introduction; L.King ; L.Orilla 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 inthe Fiction of 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 Bodyand the Rituals of Being in Beloved and Go Tell It on the Mountain; C.Evette Henderson The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Alchemy of Race and Sexuality; E.Frances White The Theme of Incest in Baldwin and Morrison; L.Orilla 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 in Baldwin and Morrison; K.ByermanComing into Her Own: The Women of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison; J.ChadwickJames Baldwin and Toni Morrison: A History of Interaction; M.Atlas

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61972-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 15/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés