Table of Contents

1. Introduction Valerie Smith; 2. From orality to literacy: oral memory in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Joyce Irene Middleton; 3. Call and response: voice community and dialogic structures in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Marilyn Sanders Mobley; 4. Knowing their names: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Marianne Hirsch; 5. The postmodernist rag: political identity and the vernacular in Song of Solomon Wahneema Lubiano.