Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-230) and index.
Contents
Personal beginnings: mammies and mothers -- Historical beginnings: slavery -- "Mister": the drama of black manhood in Faulkner and Morrison -- David and Solomon: fathering black and white -- "The condition our condition is in": bedrock in Go down, Moses and Song of Solomon -- Miscegenation and might-have-been: Absalom, Absalom! and Jazz -- The circulation of social energy: race, gender, and value in Light in August and beloved.
