CiNii Books - Masculinities in black and white : manliness and whiteness in (African) American literature

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- Armengol, Josep M.

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Masculinities in black and white : manliness and whiteness in (African) American literature

Josep M. Armengol

（Global masculinities）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

: hardback

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Doshisha University Library (Imadegawa)

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福岡大学図書館

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Summary: "This book aims to provide different, varied, and sometimes even conflicting perspectives on masculinity and whiteness. Like black masculinity itself, which has been shown to vary throughout different cultural and historical locations, white masculinity is also analyzed here a shifting and often even contradictory construction. Indeed, rather than white masculinity, this study is concerned with exploring white masculinities in the plural, showing their intricate, porous, and often ambiguous representations in the fiction of five American authors, black and white, male and female, gay and straight. The analysis of white masculinities from such multiple racial, gendered, and sexual angles seeks to provide a more complex and multifaceted view on the subject"-- Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. [169]-182

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as seen by African American authors placed alongside certain white writers. Author analyzes texts by Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Frederick Douglass, and James Baldwin.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Slavery in Black and White: White Masculinity as Enslaving in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 2. Of Gray Vapors and Creeping Clouds: White (Male) Privilege as Blinding in Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno'. 3. Revisiting Masculinity and/as Whiteness in Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa and Under Kilimanjaro 4. Dark Objects of Desire: The Blackness of (Homo)sexuality in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room 5. Race and Gender in the Mirror: A (White) Woman's Look at (Black) Racism in Martha Gellhorn's "White Into Black"

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