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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Henry Anthony, Ronda C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013
Series:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Masculinity in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Human body in literature.
Masculinité dans la littérature.
Féminité dans la littérature.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
American literature > African American authors.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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