The African American male, writing and difference : a polycentric approach to African American literature, criticism, and history / / W. Lawrence Hogue
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| Autore: |
Hogue W. Lawrence <1951->
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| Titolo: |
The African American male, writing and difference : a polycentric approach to African American literature, criticism, and history / / W. Lawrence Hogue
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/9286/08996073 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The African American male, writing and difference |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8700-8 |
| 1-4175-2411-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910974882403321 |
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