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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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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.