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Masculinist impulses : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity

Title
Masculinist impulses : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity / Nathan Grant.
Author
Grant, Nathan, 1957-
Publication
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004.

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Description
239 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Hurston, Zora Neale > Characters > Men
  • Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967
  • American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
  • Modernism (Literature) > United States
  • African American men in literature
  • Masculinity in literature
  • Race in literature
  • Men in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.
Contents
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 -- Where and when we enter : closing the gap in Morrison's Beloved and Naylor's Mama Day.
Call Number
Sc E 04-1551
ISBN
0826215165 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2003026040
OCLC
53831309
Author
Grant, Nathan, 1957-
Title
Masculinist impulses : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity / Nathan Grant.
Imprint
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 04-1551
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