Contemporary Women's Writing Advance Access originally published online on August 7, 2009
Contemporary Women's Writing 2009 3(2):200-202; doi:10.1093/cww/vpp004
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Can't I Love What I Criticize? The Masculine and Morrison. Susan Neal Mayberry, ed
Winona State University, gmichlitsch@winona.edu
Can't I Love What I Criticize? The Masculine and Morrison. Susan Neal Mayberry, ed. 2007. University of Georgia Press, Athens. pp. 340. £33.50, $34.95, hardback
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Susan Neal Mayberry's Can't I Love What I Criticize? The Masculine and Morrison tackles a timely and worthy topic. In the first book-length work to claim a focus on all of "Morrison's men," Mayberry undertakes a thorough reading of Toni Morrison's novels to date. Drawing her ungainly but thought-provoking title from Guitar Bains's contention in Song of Solomon, "Can't I love what I criticize?," Mayberry wisely makes clear that Morrison's male characters are worthy of significant criticism as well as love.