In the shadow of the Black beast : African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances /
Andrew B. Leiter presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or black beast, as a composite literary phenomenon. According to Leiter, the black beast theme served as a fundamental link between the Harlem and Southern Renaissances, with writers from both movemen...
| Основен автор: | Leiter, Andrew B., 1972- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Серия: |
Southern literary studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Print version::
In the shadow of the Black beast. |
Съдържание:
- 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.