Breaking the Silence : Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism /

Can black males offer useful insights on black women and patriarchy? Many black feminists are doubtful. Their skepticism derives in part from a history of explosive encounters with black men who blamed feminism for stigmatizing black men and undermining racial solidarity and in part from a perceptio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ikard, David, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Suffering in literature.
Sex differences in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
American fiction > African American authors.
African American women > Race identity.
African American women in literature.
African American men > Race identity.
African American men in literature.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Hommes noirs americains dans la litterature.
Noires americaines > Identite ethnique.
Hommes noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Differences entre sexes dans la litterature.
Souffrance dans la litterature.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Love Jones : a black male feminist critique of Chester Himes's If he hollers let him go
  • Black patriarchy and the dilemma of black women's complicity in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain
  • "Killing the white girl first" : understanding the politics of black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise
  • "So much of what we know ain't so" : the other gender in Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters
  • "Like a butterfly in a hurricane" : reconceptualizing black gendered resistance in Walter Mosley's Always outnumbered, always outgunned and Walkin' the dog.

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