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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450420203321

Autore

Grant Nathan <1957->

Titolo

Masculinist impulses [[electronic resource] ] : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity / / Nathan Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8262-6246-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

813/.5099286/08996073

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.