Title Racial myths and masculinity in African American literature / Jeffrey B. Leak.

Publication Info.	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS374.B635 L43 2005	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	160 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-155) and index.
Contents	A crisis in the male spirit : slavery, masculinity, and the myth of Black inferiority in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass -- A conflict between the ideological and the biological : the myth of Black sexual prowess in Brent Wade's Company man and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- I want him to be a man : incarceration and the myth of Black criminality in Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying and Richard Wright's Native son -- It's time you learned the truth about a few things : masculinity and the myth of cultural depravation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.
Subject	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- African American authors.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African American men in literature.
	African American men in literature.
	Masculinity in literature.
	Masculinity in literature.
	Race in literature.
	Race in literature.
	Myth in literature.
	Myth in literature.
	Men in literature.
	Men in literature.
ISBN	157233357X hardcover acid-free paper
	1572333588 hardcover