Baldwin and Morrison in dialogue / Lovalerie King -- Baldwin's bop 'n' Morrison's mood : bebop and race in James Baldwin's Another country and Toni Morrison 's Jazz / Keren Omry -- Narrating the beat of the heart, jazzing the text of desire : a comparative interface of James Baldwin's Another country and Toni Morrison's Jazz / Anna Kérchy -- Revising revision : methodologies of love, desire, and resistance in Beloved and If Beale Street could talk / Michelle H. Phillips -- Revising the incest story : Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and James Baldwin's Just above my head / Lynn Orilla Scott -- Watchers watching watchers : positioning characters and readers in Baldwin's Sonny blues and Morrison 's Recitatif / Trudier Harris -- Playing a mean guitar : the legacy of Staggerlee in Baldwin and Morrison / D. Quentin Miller -- Refiguring the flesh : the word, the body, and the rituals of being in Beloved and Go tell it on the mountain / Carol E. Henderson -- Resistance against racial, sexual, and social oppression in Go tell it on the mountain and Beloved / Babacar M'Baye -- Secular word, sacred flesh : preachers in the fiction of Baldwin and Morrison / Keith Byerman -- Unseen or unspeakable? : racial evidence in Baldwin's and Morrison's nonfiction / Richard Schur -- The art of whiteness in the nonfiction of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison / Jonathan Mirin -- The evidence of things not seen : the alchemy of race and sexuality / E. Frances White -- Femininity, abjection, and (Black) masculinity in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Keith Mitchell.