Searching for the New Black Man : Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies /

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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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Henry Anthony, Ronda C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Masculinity in literature.
Human body in literature.
Femininity in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Feminite dans la litterature.
Masculinite dans la litterature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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