Maurice O Wallace

Constructing the Black Masculine

Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995

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Produktbeschreibung

"Highly original and deeply probing in its analyses into the intricacies of its topic, "Constructing the Black Masculine" is a timely and rewarding addition to the study of African American literature, American studies, and race and sexuality. Maurice O. Wallace has a lot to teach."--Nellie McKay, coeditor of "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780822328544
• ISBN-10: 0822328542
• Artikelnr.: 21660072

Autorenporträt

Maurice O. Wallace is Assistant Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Duke University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
> Introduction
Part One: Spectagraphia
1. On Dangers Seen and Unseen: Identity Politics and the Burden of Black
Male Specularity
Part Two: No Hiding Place
2. “Are We Men?”: Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Black Masculine Ideal
in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865
3. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T.
Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography
4. A Man’s Place: Architecture, Identity, and Black Masculine Being
Part Three: Looking B(l)ack
5. “I’m Not Entirely What I Look Like”: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and
the Hegemony of Vision; or Jimmy’s FBEye Blues
6. What Juba Knew: Dance and Desire in Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Room
> Afterword: “What Ails you Polyphemus?”: Toward a New Ontology of Vision
in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks
Notes
Bibliography
Index