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The African American male, writing and difference : a polycentric approach to African American literature, criticism, and history / W. Lawrence Hogue.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Male authors--History and criticism.
- African American men--Intellectual life.
- African American men.
- Difference (Psychology) in literature.
- African American men in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Argues that African American literature must take into account the rich diversity of African American life and culture.
- Contents:
- Intro
- THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE, WRITING, AND DIFFERENCE
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Approaching African American Life, History, Literature, and Criticism Polycentrically
- 2. History, the White/Black Binary, and the Construction of the African American as Other
- 3. The White/Black Binary and the African American Sociopolitical Mission of Racial Uplift
- 4. Finding Freedom in Sameness: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
- 5. Disrupting the White/Black Binary: William Melvin Kelley' s A Different Drummer
- 6. Exposing Limiting, Racialized Heterological Critical Sites: An Existential Reading of Charles Wright's The Messenger
- 7. The Blues Idiom Lifestyle, Counter-Hegemony, and Clarence Major's Dirty Bird Blues
- 8. Naming the Subaltern: The Swinging Life and Nathan Heard's Howard Street
- 9. Identity Politics, Sexual Fluidity, and James Earl Hardy's B-Boy Blues
- 10. Voodoo, A Different African American Experience, and Don Belton's Almost Midnight
- 11. Conclusion
- NOTES
- 4. Finding Freedom iN Sameness: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
- 10. Voodoo, A Different African American Experience, and Don Belton' s Almost Midnight
- WORKS CITED
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7914-8700-8
- 1-4175-2411-1
- OCLC:
- 61367670
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