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Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995 / Maurice O. Wallace.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Maurice O. (Maurice Orlando), 1967-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- a John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American men--Race identity.
- African American men.
- African American men--Psychology.
- Masculinity--United States.
- Masculinity.
- Ideals (Psychology).
- African American men--Intellectual life.
- African American intellectuals--History.
- African American intellectuals.
- African American men in literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A major rethinking of the issues around African American masculinity, tracing its relation to images of construction, and applying ideas from Eve Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet.
- Contents:
- Part one: Spectragraphia
- On dangers seen and unseen: identity politics and the burden of Black male specularity
- Part two: no hiding place
- 'Are we men?': Prince Hall, Martin Delany and the Black masculine ideal in Black freemasonry, 1775-1865
- Constructing the Black masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography
- A man's place: architecture, identity and Black masculine being
- Part three: Looking b(l)ack
- 'I'm not entirely what I look like': Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the hegemony of vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye blues
- What Juba knew: dance and desire in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing rooms
- Afterword: "What ails you Polyphemus?": toward a new ontology of vision in Frantz Fanon's Black skin, White masks.
- Notes:
- "A John Hope Franklin Center book."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920349
- 9781282920347
- 1282920340
- 9780822383796
- 0822383799
- OCLC:
- 850216635
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