Introduction.- Held in the Thrall: Morrison's Southern Men and the Arrested Motion of Tight Space.- From Zero to Nowhere: Tight Space and the Topophilia of Violence.- The Housing of Hurt: The Optic of Tight Space in Jazz.- A Measure of Last Resort: Limerence and the Geometrical Shape of Community in Love.- A Pox on All Your Houses: Susceptibility, Immunity, and the Dilemma of Allegory in A Mercy.- The Precarity of Freedom: Toni Morrison and the Post-Racial Moment.