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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 [Firs [331 Line —— 0.0 —— Norm PgEn [331 Index Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 200, 201, 313n6 Anderson, Elijah, 8–9, 278, 284 androgyny: of African American discourse, 3; need for women to embrace, 52; in Song of Solomon, 73, 79, 89, 111, 114, 301n2; as theme in Morrison’s work, 14; as tool for cooperation between black men and women, 10 Are We Not Men? (Harper), 10 Awkward, Michael, 10 Bastien, David T., 195 “The Bear” (Faulkner), 95 Beloved: and Middle Passage, 157– 58; and the Book of Revelation, 184; balance of sympathetic and unsympathetic characters, 186; blues-like structure of, 157, 182; Cherokee Indians in, 180; church, importance to black community, 176; corn, Morrison’s associations with, 164–65; escape plan, of Sweet Home men, 170; four horsemen and the Book of Revelation, 184; fusion of human and animal, 164, 165; hands and feet in, 153, 158; infanticide in, 156, 158, 183–84, 185; metaphor of chain gang, 179– 80; 124 Bluestone Road, naming of, 182; pluralistic black masculinity in, 154, 155, 165, 187, 192; prison work songs in, 179; reaction to infanticide, 184–85; restores hope for black gender balance, 154; savagery of blacks, white perception of, 168; slave narrative, as re-vision of, 154; structure of, 157; Sweet Home slaves’ desire for Sethe, 160; Sweet Home, depiction of, 159–60 Characters —Amy Denver, 176 —Baby Suggs: and husband, 159; and Reverend Pike, 175–76; as caretaker of escaped slaves, 182; death of children, 156 —Beloved (character), 158, 190, 191 —Bodwin: 124 Bluestone Road, recollections of, 174; abolitionism, motives for, 174–75; black and white coloring of, 175; patronizing treatment of Baby Suggs, 175; tongue-in-cheek treatment by Morrison, 189 —Buglar, 183 331 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 [332 Line —— 0.0 —— Norm PgEn [332 Beloved: Characters (continued) —Denver, 166, 186–87 —Garner: as “nice Nazi,” 160, 161, 163; benevolence of, selfperceived , 160–61; death of, 161; God-complex of, 160 —Halle: longing for freedom, 163; madness of, 166; marriage to Sethe, 164; masculinity of, 163–64, 166 —Howard, 183 —Paul D: and Brother, 172; life on the road, 180–81; made whole by Sethe, 191–92; memories brought back by sex with Sethe, 165; and Mister, 172, 173; need to name things, 172, 173; repossession of his heart, 189, 190, 191; in prison camp, 178, 179; sex with Beloved, 189, 190–91 —the Pauls, dehumanized by their names, 171 —Reverend Pike, 175–176 —schoolteacher: and infanticide incident, 184–85; genteelness of, 162; notetaking of slaves’ animal characteristics, 162–63, 169; orders Sethe’s whipping, 162; racist beliefs of, 161, 162; restrictions imposed on slaves at Sweet Home, 169 —Sethe: and infanticide incident, 183–84, 185; escape from slavery, 177; marriage to Halle, 164; memories brought back by sex with Paul D, 165; name origin, 159; physical abuse of, 162; rape by schoolteacher’s nephews, 162; schoolteacher’s notes, reaction to, 162–63 —Sixo: and Patsy, 167, 171, 191; as out of synch, 166–67, 170; as storyteller, 167–68, 169; association with nature and wildness, 167, 168; connection with children, 170; death of, 171; hypermasculinity of, 167; possible meanings for name, 309n14; shuns language, 170 —Stamp Paid: and infanticide incident, 188; charity of, 187, 188; compassion of, 177, 178; feminine masculinity of, 177, 178; renaming of self, 159 —Suggs, 159 —Woodruff, 175 Bent, Geoffrey, 252 Berkeley Men’s Center Manifesto, 275–76 “Big Two-Hearted River” (Hemingway ), 68 black family, resiliency of, 9 Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Wallace), 13 black men: anomie of, 7–8; as comrades of black women, 2, 3, 10, 20; and concepts of the “cool pose” and “code of the street,” 8–9; in crisis, 7, 8, 52, 79; emasculation of, 1, 5, 214; need for clans/gangs, 25, 59, 79; relationships with black women, 1–4, 52; and sexual identity formation, 303n15; skill with language, 74, 77; use of tall tales, 78 Black People Who Made the Old West (Katz), 224 Black Scholar (Staples), 13 black women writers, 2 Blount, Marcellus...