Salvific manhood : James Baldwin's novelization of male intimacy
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Salvific manhood : James Baldwin's novelization of male intimacy
（Expanding frontiers : interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality）
University of Nebraska Press, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index
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Description
Salvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in the novels of James Baldwin. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex emotional choices Baldwin's men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences. In Salvific Manhood, Gibson offers a new and compelling way to understand the hidden connections between Baldwin's novels. This thematically daring and theoretically provocative work presents a queering of salvation, a nuanced approach that views redemption through the lenses of gender and sexuality.
Exploring how fraternal crises develop out of sociopolitical forces and conditions, Salvific Manhood theorizes a spatiality of manhood, where spaces between men are erased through expressions of intimacy and love. Positioned at the intersections of literary criticism, queer studies, and male studies, Gibson deconstructs Baldwin's wrestling with familial love, American identity, suicide, art, incarceration, and memory by magnifying the potent idea of salvific manhood. Ultimately, Salvific Manhood calls for an alternate reading of Baldwin's novels, introducing new theories for understanding the intricacies of African American manhood and American identity, all within a space where the presence of tragedy can give way to the possibility of salvation.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: In Search of the Fraternal
1. Wrestling for Salvation: Denial, Longing, and the Beauty of Brotherhood in Go Tell It on the Mountain
2. Flight, Freedom, and Abjection: Fractured Manhood and Tragic Love in Giovanni's Room
3. Alone in the Absurd: The Trope of Tragic Black Manhood in Another Country
4. Theatrics of Mask-ulinity: Radical Male Intimacy and Black Power in Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
5. Concrete Jungles and the Carceral: Exploring Confinement and Imprisonment in If Beale Street Could Talk
Conclusion: Somewhere in That Wreckage
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