On black men / David Marriott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marriott, D. S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American men--Social conditions.

African American men.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 133 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Summary:

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748610167);Mutilated, dying or dead, black men play a role in the psychic life of culture. From national dreams to media fantasies, from sensual intimacy to outpourings of murderous violence, there is a persistent imagining of what black men must be, a demand that black men perform a script, become interchangeable with the uncanny, deeply unsettling, projections of culture.This powerful and compelling study explores the legacy of that role, particularly its violent effect on how black men have learned to see themselves and one another. David Marriott draws upon a range of examples, from lynching photographs to recent Hollywood films, as well as the ideas of key thinkers including Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and John Edgar Wideman, to reveal a vicious pantomime of unvarying reification and compulsive fascination, of whites taking a look at themselves through images of black desolation, and of blacks intimately dispossessed by that self-same looking.On Black Men is a bold and original exploration of what it means to be black and male in contemporary Europe and America."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgements

I ′I'm gonna borrer me a Kodak': Photography and Lynching

II 'Murderous Appetites': Photography and Fantasy

III Black Types

IV Frantz Fanon's War

V Father Stories

Afterword: Either/Or

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474470704

147447070X