Black Love, Black Hate Felice D. Blake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, Felice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Place of Publication:

Columbus, OH The Ohio State University Press 2018

Columbus, OH : The Ohio State University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Felice D. Blake's Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraracial deceptions, cruelties, and contempt in Black literature. Literary criticism has tended to focus on Black solidarity and the ways that a racially linked fate has compelled Black people to counter notions of Black inferiority with unified notions of community driven by political commitments to creative rehumanization and collective affirmation. Blake shows how fictional depictions of intraracial conflict perform necessary work within the Black community, raising questions about why racial unity is so often established from the top down and how loyalty to Blackness can be manipulated to reinforce deleterious forms of subordination to oppressive gender, sexual, and class norms.

Contents:

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 The Public Space of Intimate Antagonisms: Black Intimacy and Opposition to Jim Crow

CHAPTER 2 Intimate Antagonisms and Double Consciousness in the Debate over Integration

CHAPTER 3 Going to Bed Angry: Intimate Antagonisms in the Epoch of Black Power

CHAPTER 4 What's Yours Is Mine: The Paradox of Intraracial "Bootstrap" Politics

EPILOGUE Intimate Antagonisms, the Undercommons, and the Town-Hall Meeting

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814255032

0814255035

9780814276662

0814276660

OCLC:

1056710656

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access