Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : in search of the fraternal
  • Wrestling for salvation : denial, longing, and the beauty of brotherhood in Go tell it on the mountain
  • Flight, freedom, and abjection : fractured manhood and tragic love in Giovanni's room
  • Alone in the absurd : the trope of tragic black manhood in Another country
  • Theatrics of mask-ulinity : radical male intimacy and black power in Tell me how long the train's been gone
  • Concrete jungles and the carceral : exploring confinement and imprisonment in If Beale Street could talk
  • Conclusion : somewhere in that wreckage.