Masculinist impulses : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity
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書誌事項
Masculinist impulses : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity
University of Missouri Press, c2004
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index
収録内容
- Introduction : Modernism and the masculinist impulse
- Toomer's male prison and the spectatorial artist
- Of silent strivings : Cane's mute and dreaming dictie
- Hurston's masculinist critique of the South
- Zora Neale Hurston and the romance of the supernature
- Promised lands : the new Jerusalem's inner city and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia story
- When and where we enter : closing the gap in Morrison's Beloved and Naylor's Mama Day
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内容説明
In Masculinist Impulses, Nathan Grant begins his analysis of African American texts by focusing on the fragmentation of values of black masculinity - free labor, self-reliance, and responsibility to family and community - as a result of slavery, postbellum disfranchisement, and the ensuing necessity to migrate from the agrarian South to the industrialized North. Through examinations of modern and contemporary novels that deal with black male selfhood, Grant demonstrates the ways in which efforts to alleviate the most destructive aspects of racism ultimately reproduced them in the context of the industrialized city. Grant's book provides close readings of Jean Toomer (Cane and Natalie Mann) and Zora Neale Hurston (Moses, Man of the Mountain, Seraph of the Suwanee, and Their Eyes Were Watching God), for whom the American South was a crucial locus of the African American experience. Toomer and Hurston were virtually alone among the Harlem Renaissance writers of prose who returned to the South for their literary materials. That return, however, allowed their rediscovery of key black masculine values and charted the northern route of those values in the twentieth century.
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