The African American male, writing and difference : a polycentric approach to African American literature, criticism, and history / / W. Lawrence Hogue

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911103212503321
• Autore: Hogue W. Lawrence <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003
• ISBN: 0-7914-8700-8; 1-4175-2411-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/9286/08996073
• Soggetti: American literature - African American authors - History and criticism; American literature - Male authors - History and criticism; African American men - Intellectual life; Difference (Psychology) in literature; African American men in literature
• 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. 273-281) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE, WRITING, AND DIFFERENCE -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Approaching African American Life, History, Literature, and Criticism Polycentrically -- 2. History, the White/Black Binary, and the Construction of the African American as Other -- 3. The White/Black Binary and the African American Sociopolitical Mission of Racial Uplift -- 4. Finding Freedom in Sameness: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man -- 5. Disrupting the White/Black Binary: William Melvin Kelley' s A Different Drummer -- 6. Exposing Limiting, Racialized Heterological Critical Sites: An Existential Reading of Charles Wright's The Messenger -- 7. The Blues Idiom Lifestyle, Counter-Hegemony, and Clarence Major's Dirty Bird Blues -- 8. Naming the Subaltern: The Swinging Life and Nathan Heard's Howard Street -- 9. Identity Politics, Sexual Fluidity, and James Earl Hardy's B-Boy Blues -- 10. Voodoo, A Different African American Experience, and Don Belton's Almost Midnight -- 11. Conclusion -- NOTES -- 2. History, the White/Black Binary, and the Construction of the African American as ; Other -- 3. The White/Black Binary and the African American Sociopolitical Mission of Racial Uplift -- 4. Finding Freedom iN Sameness: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man -- 9. Identity Politics, Sexual Fluidity, and James Earl Hardy's B-Boy Blues -- 10. Voodoo, A Different African American Experience, and Don Belton' s Almost Midnight -- WORKS CITED -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Argues that African American literature must take into account the rich diversity of African American life and culture.