<p>Includes bibliographical references and index.</p> <p>gift</p>

Introduction: Baldwin and Morrison in dialogue / Lovalerie King -- Baldwin's bop 'n' Morrison's mood: bebop and race in James Baldwin's Another country and Toni Morrison 's Jazz / Anna Kérchy -- Revising revision: methodologies of love, desire, and resistance in Beloved and If Beale Street could talk / Michelle H. Phillips -- Revising the incest story: Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and James Baldwin's Just above my head / Lynn Orilla Scott -- Watchers watching watchers: positioning characters and readers in Baldwin's "Sonny blues" and Morrison 's "Recitatif" / Trudier Harris -- Playing a mean guitar: the legacy of Staggerlee in Baldwin and Morrison / D. Quentin Miller -- Refiguring the flesh: the word, the body, and the rituals of being in Beloved and Go tell it on the mountain / Carol E. Henderson -- Resistance against racial, sexual, and social oppression in Go tell it on the mountain and Beloved / Babacar M'Baye -- Secular word, sacred flesh: preachers in the fiction of Baldwin and Morrison / Keith Byerman -- Unseen or unspeakable? Racial evidence in Baldwin's and Morrison's nonfiction / Richard Schur -- The art of whiteness in the nonfiction of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison / Jonathan Mirin -- The evidence of things not seen: the alchemy of race and sexuality / E. Frances White -- Femininity, abjection, and (Black) masculinity in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Keith Mitchell.