Introduction / Jan Furman -- People Who Could Fly / Julius Lester -- The Quest for and Discovery of Identity in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Valerie Smith -- The South in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: Initiation, Healing, and Home / Catherine Carr Lee -- "Unruly and Let Loose": Myth, Ideology, and Gender in Song of Solomon / Michael Awkward -- Song of Solomon: Rejecting Rank's Monomyth and Feminism / Gerry Brenner -- Doe Hunting and Masculinity: Song of Solomon and Go Down. Moses / John N. Duvall -- Civilizations Underneath: African Heritage as Cultural Discourse in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Gay Wilentz -- Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A Blues Song / Joyce M. Wegs -- Names to Bear Witness: The Theme and Tradition of Naming in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Lucinda H. Mackethan -- Dead Teachers: Rituals of Manhood and Rituals of Reading in Song of Solomon / Linda Krumholz -- Toni Morrison: The Art of Fiction / Elissa Schappell.

Chronology: African-American History, 1865-1977.