Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Harold Bloom
  • Liminality and the search for self in Song of Solomon / Wilfred D. Samuels
  • Song of Solomon: continuities of community / Valerie Smith
  • The interdependence of men's and women's individuation / Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos
  • The lyrics of salvation / Karla F. C. Holloway
  • Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon and black cultural nationalism / Harry Reed
  • An excursion into the black world: the "seven days" in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Ralph Story
  • "Unruly and let loose": myth, ideology, and gender in Song of Solomon / Michael Awkward
  • Inscribing origin in Song of Solomon / Jan Stryz
  • Song of Solomon: the struggle for race and class consciousness / Doreatha Drummond Mbalia
  • Knowing their names: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Marianne Hirsch
  • Competing discourses in Song of Solomon (1977) / Linden Peach
  • "Why don't he like my hair?": constructing African-American standards of beauty in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Bertram D. Ashe
  • Male consciousness: Song of Solomon / Jan Furman
  • "Anaconda love": parental enmeshment in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Gary Storhoff.