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Title:

Fathers, preachers, rebels, men : black masculinity in U.S. history and literature, 1820-1945 / edited by Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

ix, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Masculinity in literature.
Masculinity--United States--History--19th century.
Masculinity--United States--History--20th century.
African American men in literature.

Other Authors:

Buckner, Timothy R., 1974-
Caster, Peter, 1972-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"He was no man attall"? Slave men, honor, violence, and masculinity in the antebellum South / Jeff Forret -- A crucible of masculinity : William Johnson's barbershop and the making of free black men in the antebellum South / Timothy R. Buckner -- To train them for the work : manhood, morality, and free black conduct discourse in antebellum New York / Erica L. Ball -- Masculinizing the pulpit : the black preacher in the nineteenth-century AME church / Julius H. Bailey -- "Shall I trust these men?" : Thomas Nast and postbellum black manhood / Fiona Deans Halloran -- Charles W. Chesnutt, Harper's Weekly, and racial caricature in postbellum, pre-Harlem America / Peter Caster -- "So I decided to quit it and try something else for a while" : reading agency in Nat Love / Simone Drake -- Cowboys, porters, and the mythic West : satire and frontier masculinity in The life and adventures of Nat Love / Charity Fox -- From Haiti to Harpers Ferry : the insurrectionary tradition in American literature / Colleen C. O'Brien -- The political is personal : black family manhood and the social science of E. Franklin Frazier, 1930-1945 / Malinda Alaine Lindquist -- Black masculinity and new precedents / Rich©♭ Richardson.

Series:

Black performance and cultural criticism

ISBN:

0814292550 (cd-rom)
9780814292556 (cd-rom)
0814211569 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814211564 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)687675912

LCCN:

2011006001

Locations:

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