Searching for the new black man [electronic resource] : black masculinity and women's bodies / Ronda C. Henry Anthony.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry Anthony, Ronda C.

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Femininity in literature.

Human body in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2013.

Summary:

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 and power. In tracing representations of ideal black masculinities and femininities, Henry Anthony shows how black men's struggles for gendered agency are inextricably bound up with their complicated relation to white men and normative masculinity. The historical context in which Henry Anthony couc

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-62103-925-0

OCLC:

823014164