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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552774203321

Titolo

Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men : Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945 / / Edited by Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-8142-7076-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p. :) : ill. ;

Collana

Black performance and cultural criticism

Altri autori (Persone)

CasterPeter <1972->

BucknerTimothy R. <1974->

Disciplina

810.9/928608996073

Soggetti

African American men in literature

Masculinity - United States - History - 20th century

Masculinity - United States - History - 19th century

Masculinity in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"He was no man attall"? Slave men, honor, violence, and masculinity in the antebellum South / Jeff Forret -- A crucible of masculinity : William Johnson's barbershop and the making of free black men in the antebellum South / Timothy R. Buckner -- To train them for the work : manhood, morality, and free black conduct discourse in antebellum New York / Erica L. Ball -- Masculinizing the pulpit : the black preacher in the nineteenth-century AME church / Julius H. Bailey -- "Shall I trust these men?" : Thomas Nast and postbellum black manhood / Fiona Deans Halloran -- Charles W. Chesnutt, Harper's Weekly, and racial caricature in postbellum, pre-Harlem America / Peter Caster -- "So I decided to quit it and try something else for a while" : reading agency in Nat Love / Simone Drake -- Cowboys, porters, and the mythic West : satire and frontier masculinity in The life and adventures of Nat Love / Charity Fox -- From Haiti to Harpers Ferry : the insurrectionary tradition in American literature / Colleen C. O'Brien -- The political is personal : black family manhood and the social science of E. Franklin



Frazier, 1930-1945 / Malinda Alaine Lindquist -- Black masculinity and new precedents / Riche Richardson.