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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 [-7], Line —— -12 —— Norm * PgEn [-7], Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Something Other Than a Family Quarrel: Morrison’s Review of the Masculine 1 2. Black Boys, White Gaze: A Respectful Publication of The Bluest Eye 15 3. An Elegy on Black Masculinity: The Beautiful Boys in Sula 51 4. Flying without Ever Leaving the Ground: Feminine Masculinity in Song of Solomon 71 5. The Nigger in the Woodpile: Sons and Lovers in Tar Baby 116 6. Circles of Sorrow, Sites of Memory, Forms of Flooding: Colored Men’s Time in Beloved 153 7. Classically Re-training Blues Boys: Morrison’s Jazz Men 193 8. Putting down Parking Lots out There: Morrison’s Unpaved Male Paradise 223 9. Laying down the Law of the Father: Men in Love 261 Coda 293 Notes 299 Selected Bibliography 319 Index 331 This page intentionally left blank ...

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