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Author:

Oforlea, Aaron Ngozi, 1969- author.

Title:

James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the rhetorics of black male subjectivity / Aaron Ngozi Oforlea.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xi, 241 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Baldwin, James,--1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni--Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James,--1924-1987.
Morrison, Toni.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African American men in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Rhetoric.
African American men in literature.
American fiction--African American authors.
Masculinity in literature.
Rhetoric.
Subjectivity in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0814253903
9780814253908
0814213286
9780814213285

OCLC:

(OCoLC)959265509

LCCN:

2016048345

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)