Can't I Love What I Criticize? : The Masculine and Morrison.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Something Other Than a Family Quarrel: Morrison's Review of the Masculine -- 2. Black Boys, White Gaze: A Respectful Publication of The Bluest Eye -- 3. An Elegy on Black Masculinity: The Beautiful Boys in Sula -- 4. Flying without Ever Leaving the Ground: Feminine Masculinity in Song of Solomon -- 5. The Nigger in the Woodpile: Sons and Lovers in Tar Baby -- 6. Circles of Sorrow, Sites of Memory, Forms of Flooding: Colored Men's Time in Beloved -- 7. Classically Re-training Blues Boys: Morrison's Jazz Men -- 8. Putting down Parking Lots out There: Morrison's Unpaved Male Paradise -- 9. Laying down the Law of the Father: Men in Love -- Coda -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.

Mayberry offers the first full-length study of Toni Morrison's male characters and the first systematic examination of black masculinity in the fiction of African American women. She also considers the barriers between black men and women created by their participation in a larger, historically racist culture.

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