Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-329) and index
Something other than a family quarrel: Morrison’s review of the masculine -- Black boys, White gaze: a respectful publication of The bluest eye -- An elegy on Black masculinity: the beautiful boys in Sula -- Flying without ever leaving the ground: feminine masculinity in Song of Solomon -- The nigger in the woodpile: sons and lovers in Tar baby -- Circles of sorrow, sites of memory, forms of flooding: colored men’s time in Beloved -- Classically re-training blues boys: Morrison’s Jazz men -- Putting down parking lots out there: Morrison’s unpaved male Paradise -- Laying down the law of the father: men in Love.
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