Lovalerie King is Associate Professor of African American Language and Literature, Affiliate Faculty in Women’s Studies, and Director of the Africana Research Center at Penn State-University Park. She is the author of Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature and The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston. She co-edited (with Linda Selzer) New Essays on the African American Novel and (with Richard Schur) African American Culture and Legal Discourse.

Lynn Orilla Scott is a Visiting Assistant Professor at James Madison College and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture at Michigan State University. Her publications include James Baldwin’s Later Fiction and several articles and essays on African American and American literature.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Baldwin and Morrison in Dialogue	p. 1
Baldwin's Bop 'N' Morrison's Mood: Bebop and Race in James Baldwin's another Country and Toni Morrison's Jazz	p. 11
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	p. 37
Revising Revision: Methodologies of Love, Desire, and Resistance in Beloved and if Beale Street Could Talk	p. 63
Revising the Incest Story: Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye and James Baldwin's Just above my Head	p. 83
Watchers Watching Watchers: Positioning Characters and Readers in Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" and Morrison's "Recitatif"	p. 103
Playing a Mean Guitar: The Legacy of Staggerlee in Baldwin and Morrison	p. 121
Refiguring the Flesh: The Word, The Body, and The Rituals of Being in Beloved and go Tell it on the Mountain	p. 149
Resistance Against Racial, Sexual, and Social Oppression in go Tell it on the Mountain and Beloved	p. 167
Secular Word, Sacred Flesh: Preachers in The Fiction of Baldwin and Morrison	p. 187
Unseen or Unspeakable? Racial Evidence in Baldwin's and Morrison's Nonfiction	p. 205
The Art of Whiteness in the Nonfiction of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison	p. 223
The Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Alchemy of Race and Sexuality	p. 239
Femininity, Abjection, and (Black) Masculinity in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and Toni Morrison's Beloved	p. 261
Notes on Contributors	p. 287
Index	p. 291
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