LEADER 04078nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910820719303321 005 20240417041756.0 010 $a0-7914-8700-8 010 $a1-4175-2411-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000238630 035 $a(OCoLC)61367670 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594828 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000099755 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11124686 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099755 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10037823 035 $a(PQKB)10267659 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408501 035 $a(OCoLC)55896333 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse5994 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408501 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10594828 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000238630 100 $a20020614d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe African American male, writing and difference$b[electronic resource] $ea polycentric approach to African American literature, criticism, and history /$fW. Lawrence Hogue 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-5693-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-281) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aArgues that African American literature must take into account the rich diversity of African American life and culture. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American men$xIntellectual life 606 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature 606 $aAfrican American men in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American men$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aDifference (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aAfrican American men in literature. 676 $a810.9/9286/08996073 700 $aHogue$b W. Lawrence$f1951-$01669986 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820719303321 996 $aThe African American male, writing and difference$94103772 997 $aUNINA