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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Maurice O. WallacePublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.422kg ISBN: 9780822328698ISBN 10: 0822328690 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 12 June 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Spectagraphia 1. On Dangers Seen and Unseen: Identity Politics and the Burden of Black Male Specularity Part Two: No Hiding Place 2. Are We Men? : Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Black Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865 3. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography 4. A Man's Place: Architecture, Identity, and Black Masculine Being Part Three: Looking B(l)ack 5. I'm Not Entirely What I Look Like : Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the Hegemony of Vision; or Jimmy's FBEye Blues 6. What Juba Knew: Dance and Desire in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing Room Afterword: What Ails you Polyphemus? : Toward a New Ontology of Vision in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsA most impressive interrogation into the problematic of black masculine identity as it has manifested in the U.S. context from the late eighteenth century through the present day. Readers from across a range of disciplines will be uniformly impressed by the scope and dexterity of Wallace's critical intelligence. This is an overwhelmingly admirable achievement and a very important book. - Phillip Brian Harper, author of Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity Highly original and deeply probing it its analyses into the intricacies of its topic, Constructing the Black Masculine is a timely and rewarding addition to the study of African American literature, American studies, and race and sexuality. Maurice O. Wallace has a lot to teach. - Nellie McKay, University of Wisconsin Author InformationMaurice O. Wallace is Assistant Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Duke University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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