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Masculinist impulses : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity /

"In Masculinist Impulses, Nathan Grant begins his analysis of African American texts by focusing on the fragmentation of values of black masculinity - free labor, self-reliance, and responsibility to family and community - as a result of slavery, postbellum disfranchisment, and the ensuing nece...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grant, Nathan, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Modernism and the masculinist impulse
  • Toomer's male prison and the spectatorial artist
  • Of silent strivings : Cane's mute and dreaming dictie
  • Hurston's masculinist critique of the South
  • Zora Neale Hurston and the romance of the supernature
  • Promised lands : the new Jerusalem's inner city and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia story
  • Where and when we enter : closing the gap in Morrison's Beloved and Naylor's Mama Day.