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Author:

Wallace, Maurice O, 1967-

Title:

Constructing the Black masculine : identity and ideality in African American men's literature and culture, 1775-1995 / Maurice O. Wallace.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

xiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American men--Race identity.
African American men--Psychology.
Masculinity--United States.
Ideals (Psychology)
African American men--Intellectual life.
African American intellectuals--History.
African American men in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.

Notes:

"A John Hope Franklin Center book" Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.

Contents:

Part one: Spectragraphia -- On dangers seen and unseen: identity politics and the burden of Black male specularity -- Part two: no hiding place -- 'Are we men?': Prince Hall, Martin Delany and the Black masculine ideal in Black freemasonry, 1775-1865 -- Constructing the Black masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the sublimits of African American autobiography -- A man's place: architecture, identity and Black masculine being -- Part three: Looking b(l)ack -- 'I'm not entirely what I look like': Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the hegemony of vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye blues -- What Juba knew: dance and desire in Melvin Dixon's Vanishing rooms -- Afterword: "What ails you Polyphemus?": toward a new ontology of vision in Frantz Fanon's Black skin, White masks.

ISBN:

9780822328698
0822328690 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780822328544
0822328542 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48468763

LCCN:

2001006934

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)