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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
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Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Searching for the "new Black man" : from masculine ideality to progressive Black masculinities -- Dominant versus subordinate masculinities and the gendered oppositions between slavery and freedom -- Unsexing the black girl to get to the Indian princess : the production of talented-tenth black masculine power and the cleansing and transcending of black (wo)manhood in W.E.B. Du Bois -- "What's love got to do with it?" : James Baldwin, cross-racial/sexual bond(age)ing, and the cult of hegemonic Black masculinity -- Breakin' the rules : Socrates, Fortlow, ethics, and Walter Mosley's constructions of progressive Black masculinities -- Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father, the economies of respectable Black manhood and leadership, and the politics of collaboratively gendered Black male feminist autobiography. |
| Summary |
Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of Black masculine ideality and power. In tracing representations of ideal Black masculinities and femininities, the author shows how Black men's struggles for gendered agency are inextricably bound up with their complicated relation to white men and normative masculinity. The historical context in which the author couches these struggles highlights the extent to which shifting socioeconomic circumstances dictate the ideological, cultural, and emotional terms upon which Black men conceptualize identity. The author quickly moves to texts that challenge traditional constructions of Black masculinity. In these texts, the author traces how the emergence of collaboratively-gendered discourses, or a blending of Black female/male feminist consciousnesses, are reshaping Black masculinities, femininities, and intraracial relations for a new century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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Masculinity in literature.
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Masculinity in literature. |
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Femininity in literature.
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Femininity in literature. |
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Human body in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. |
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Human body in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Henry Anthony, Ronda C. Searching for the New Black Man. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013 9781617037344 (DLC) 2012044792 |
| ISBN |
9781617037351 (electronic book) |
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1617037354 (electronic book) |
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1621039250 (electronic book) |
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9781621039259 (electronic book) |
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9781617037344 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1617037346 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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