Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology

Author:   Rolland Murray
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
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9780812239720


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   05 January 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Rolland Murray
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780812239720


ISBN 10:   0812239725
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   05 January 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Our Black Nations Reconsidered Chapter 1. My Father's Many Mansions: James Baldwin and the Architecture of Masculine Authority Chapter 2. The Clumsy Trap of Manhood: Revolutionary Nationalism, John Edgar Wideman, and Remembrance Chapter 3. Dark Intimacies: Sex, Nationalism, and Forgetting Chapter 4. How the Conjure-Man Gets Busy: Cultural Nationalism and Performativity Conclusion: Masculine Legacies Notes Index Acknowledgments

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""Clearly written and persuasively argued, Our Living Manhood makes a notable contribution to the long-standing critique of male supremacy in Black Nationalism by helping to complicate that critique, and demonstrates the ongoing importance of gender/sexuality studies for understanding African American literature and culture.""--Marlon Ross, University of Virginia


Clearly written and persuasively argued, Our Living Manhood makes a notable contribution to the long-standing critique of male supremacy in Black Nationalism by helping to complicate that critique, and demonstrates the ongoing importance of gender/sexuality studies for understanding African American literature and culture. -Marlon Ross, University of Virginia


Clearly written and persuasively argued, Our Living Manhood makes a notable contribution to the long-standing critique of male supremacy in Black Nationalism by helping to complicate that critique, and demonstrates the ongoing importance of gender/sexuality studies for understanding African American literature and culture. --Marlon Ross, University of Virginia


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Rolland Murray teaches English at Brown University. His work has appeared in such journals as Callaloo and the Yale Journal of Criticism.

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