The buck, the Black, and the existential hero : refiguring the Black male literary canon, 1850 to present, James B. Haile III

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The buck, the Black, and the existential hero : refiguring the Black male literary canon, 1850 to present, James B. Haile III

Title remainder

refiguring the Black male literary canon, 1850 to present

Statement of responsibility

James B. Haile III

Instantiates

• The buck, the Black, and the existential hero : refiguring the Black male literary canon, 1850 to present

Publication

• Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 2020

Copyright

• ©2020

Bar code

31223143284421

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Prologue: Portrait of a Petit Marionette -- Introduction: Etiology of the Black Male Literary Text -- On Frederick Douglass and the "Image" of the Negro -- Ralph Ellison, Fictive Authority and Existential Heroism: Magic and the Prestige in the Invisible Man -- Interlude: Some notes along the way -- Colson Whitehead's "Dark Matter" Prophecy -- Cecil Brown: The Functional Negro and the rise of 'Jive Nigger' -- Conclusion: An Etiology of an Ending -- Epilogue: Petit Marionette in the black box

Dimensions

23 cm

Extent

xi, 214 pages

Isbn

9780810141650

Lccn

2019022942

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Record ID

• 5138666
• 5138666

System control number

(OCoLC)1104916554