Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995 /

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A major rethinking of the issues around African American masculinity, tracing its relation to images of construction, and applying ideas from Eve Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallace, Maurice O. (Maurice Orlando), 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
African American men > Race identity.
African American men > Psychology.
Masculinity > United States.
Ideals (Psychology)
African American men > Intellectual life.
African American intellectuals > History.
African American men in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Hommes noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
Hommes noirs américains > Psychologie.
Masculinité > États-Unis.
Idéaux (Psychologie)
Hommes noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Intellectuels noirs américains > Histoire.
Hommes noirs américains dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
African American intellectuals.
American literature > African American authors.
Masculinity.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one: Spectragraphia
  • On dangers seen and unseen: identity politics and the burden of Black male specularity
  • Part two: no hiding place
  • 'Are we men?': Prince Hall, Martin Delany and the Black masculine ideal in Black freemasonry, 1775-1865
  • Constructing the Black masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography
  • A man's place: architecture, identity and Black masculine being
  • Part three: Looking b(l)ack
  • 'I'm not entirely what I look like': Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the hegemony of vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye blues
  • What Juba knew: dance and desire in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing rooms
  • Afterword: "What ails you Polyphemus?": toward a new ontology of vision in Frantz Fanon's Black skin, White masks.

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