| Description |
viii, 243 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-225) and index. |
| Contents |
Rescuing the Black homosexual lambs : Randall Kenan and the reconstruction of Southern gay masculinity / Sheila Smith McKoy -- This disease called strength : the masculine manifestation in Raymond Andrews's Appalachee red / Trudier Harris -- Looking Homewood : the evolution of John Edgar Wideman's folk imagination / Raymond E. Janifer -- Commodity culture and the conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada / A. T. Spaulding -- Clarence Major's All-night visitors : Calibanic discourse and Black male expression / James W. Coleman -- "I was my father's father, and he my child" : the process of Black fatherhood and literary evolution in Charles Johnson's fiction / William R. Nash -- Prodigal agency : allegory and voice in Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying / Herman Beavers -- Without a cosmology : the psychospiritual condition of African-American men in Brent Wade's Company man and Melvin Dixon's Trouble the water / Melvin B. Rahming -- Are love and literature political? Black homopoetics in the 1990s / Kenyatta Dorey Graves -- Healing the scars of masculinity : reflections on baseball, gunshots, and war wounds in August Wilson's Fences / Keith Clark. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism.
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African American men -- Intellectual life.
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African American men in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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| Added Author |
Clark, Keith, 1963-
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| ISBN |
0252026764 (acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA1V3552 |
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