Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.