Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995

Author:   Maurice O. Wallace
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 June 2002
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Maurice O. Wallace
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780822328544


ISBN 10:   0822328542
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 June 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List 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 Index

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A 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


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Maurice O. Wallace is Assistant Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Duke University.

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