Can't I love what I criticize? : the masculine and Morrison / Susan Neal Mayberry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayberry, Susan Neal, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019--Criticism and interpretation.

Morrison, Toni.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019.

African American men in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 340 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2007]

Summary:

Taking a close look at all the key male figures in Toni Morrisons eight novels, this book explores Morrisons admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the axes on which these relationships turn. Most Morrison scholarship deals with her female characters. Cant I Love What I Criticize? offers a response to this imbalance and to Morrisons call for more work on men, who remain, in her words, outside of that little community value thing.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index.

ISBN:

9780820329451

0820329452

OCLC:

123079491