Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995, Maurice O. Wallace

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Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995, Maurice O. Wallace

Title remainder

identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995

Statement of responsibility

Maurice O. Wallace

Instantiates

• Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995

Publication

• Durham, Duke University Press, 2002

Note

"A John Hope Franklin Center book."

Bar code

• 31223060588861
• 31223060588945

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index

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volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

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

Dimensions

24 cm

Extent

xiii, 236 p.

Isbn

9780822328698

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(pbk. : acid-free paper)

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2001006934

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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ill.

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• 1784797
• 1784797

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48468763