04078nam 2200649Ia 450 991082071930332120240417041756.00-7914-8700-81-4175-2411-1(CKB)1000000000238630(OCoLC)61367670(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594828(SSID)ssj0000099755(PQKBManifestationID)11124686(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099755(PQKBWorkID)10037823(PQKB)10267659(MiAaPQ)EBC3408501(OCoLC)55896333(MdBmJHUP)muse5994(Au-PeEL)EBL3408501(CaPaEBR)ebr10594828(EXLCZ)99100000000023863020020614d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe African American male, writing and difference[electronic resource] a polycentric approach to African American literature, criticism, and history /W. Lawrence Hogue1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20031 online resource (306 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-5693-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-281) and index.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.Argues that African American literature must take into account the rich diversity of African American life and culture.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureMale authorsHistory and criticismAfrican American menIntellectual lifeDifference (Psychology) in literatureAfrican American men in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureMale authorsHistory and criticism.African American menIntellectual life.Difference (Psychology) in literature.African American men in literature.810.9/9286/08996073Hogue W. Lawrence1951-1669986MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820719303321The African American male, writing and difference4103772UNINA