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Author:

Leiter, Andrew B., 1972-

Title:

In the shadow of the Black beast : African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances / Andrew B. Leiter.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

x, 283 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
African American men in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
African American men--Race identity.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.
Harlem Renaissance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: literary renaissance and the interracial "sex factor" -- Sexual victims and black beasts in the nineteenth century -- One-drop men in the shadow of the beast: Walter White and James Weldon Johnson -- Sexual transgressions and the battle at the racial border: Schuyler's Black no more and Faulkner's Light in August -- Black beasts and the historical imaginations of Margaret Mitchell and Allen Tate -- The end of the chaste icon and the embrace of the beast: Caldwell's Trouble in July and Wright's Native son -- Conclusion: bigger and the black beast revenge narrative.

Series:

Southern literary studies.

ISBN:

0807135879 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807135877 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)429227184

LCCN:

2009030238

Locations:

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

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)