| Contents |
"Help me this mornin's bad": songs, narratives, and other rhetorical acts in Beloved -- "My witness is in heaven and my record is on high": discoursing the spiritual and the secular in Go tell it on the mountain -- "Look at the nigger!": mimicry, the black male artist, and Tell me how long the train's been gone -- "My great-granddaddy could fly!": negotiating cultural history and family legacies in Song of Solomon -- "Promontory of despair": Baldwin's gay sensibilities in If Beale Street could talk -- "Stop loving your ignorance-it isn't lovable": Tar baby and the rhetoric of responsibility -- Coda: Beyond Baldwin and Morrison. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2016048345 |
| ISBN | 9780814213285 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0814213286 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780814253908 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0814253903 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
