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Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995
- Title
- Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995 / Maurice O. Wallace.
- Author
- Wallace, Maurice O, 1967-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 236 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- A John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Uniform Title
- John Hope Franklin Center Book (Series)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 02-1233
- ISBN
- 0822328542 (acid-free paper)
- 0822328690 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2001006934
- OCLC
- 48468763
- Author
- Wallace, Maurice O, 1967-
- Title
- Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995 / Maurice O. Wallace.
- Imprint
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Series
- A John Hope Franklin Center BookJohn Hope Franklin Center Book (Series)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 02-1233