Once You Go Black : : Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual / / Robert F. Reid-Pharr.
2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT StudiesRichard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II intellectuals announced the very themes of race, gender, and sexuality with which so many contemporary critics...
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Reid-Pharr, Robert F., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Once You Go Black : Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual / Robert F. Reid-Pharr. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2007] ©2007 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Sexual Cultures ; 27 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Existential Negro -- Going Black -- 1. The Funny Father’s Luck -- 2. Ralph Ellison’s Blues -- 3. Alas Poor Jimmy -- Coming Back? -- 4. Saint Huey -- 5. Queer Sweetback -- Conclusion: Deviant Desiring -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT StudiesRichard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II intellectuals announced the very themes of race, gender, and sexuality with which so many contemporary critics are now engaged. While at its most elemental Once You Go Black is an homage to these thinkers, it is at the same time a reconsideration of black Americans as agents, and not simply products, of history. Reid-Pharr contends that our current notions of black American identity are not inevitable, nor have they simply been forced onto the black community. Instead, he argues, black American intellectuals have actively chosen the identity schemes that seem to us so natural today.Turning first to the late and relatively obscure novels of Wright, Ellison, and Baldwin, Reid-Pharr suggests that each of these authors rejects the idea of the black as innocent. Instead they insisted upon the responsibility of all citizens-even the most oppressed-within modern society. Reid-Pharr then examines a number of responses to this presumed erosion of black innocence, paying particular attention to articulations of black masculinity by Huey Newton, one of the two founders of the Black Panther Party, and Melvin Van Peebles, director of the classic film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.Shuttling between queer theory, intellectual history, literary close readings, and autobiography, Once You Go Black is an impassioned, eloquent, and elegant call to bring the language of choice into the study of black American literature and culture. At the same time, it represents a hard-headed rejection of the presumed inevitability of what Reid-Pharr names racial desire in the production of either culture or cultural studies. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) African American intellectuals Biography. African Americans Intellectual life 20th century. African Americans Race identity. African Americans Sexual behavior History 20th century. American literature African American authors History and criticism. Masculinity United States History 20th century. Racism in literature. Racism United States History 20th century. Sex in literature. Sex role in literature. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. bisacsh American. Once. Shuttling. autobiography. between. black. bold. bring. call. choice. close. culture. eloquent. history. impassioned. intellectual. into. language. literary. literature. queer. readings. study. theory. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814775837 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814777497.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814777497 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814777497/original |
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