Our Living Manhood : : Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology / / Rolland Murray.
When Eldridge Cleaver wrote in 1965 that black men "shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempt to gain it," he voiced a central strain of Black Power movement rhetoric. In print, as well as on stage and screen, Black Power advocates equated masculinity with their po...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Our Black Nations Reconsidered
- 1. My Father's Many Mansions: James Baldwin and the Architecture of Masculine Authority
- 2. The Clumsy Trap of Manhood: Revolutionary Nationalism, John Edgar Wideman, and Remembrance
- 3. Dark Intimacies: Sex, Nationalism, and Forgetting
- 4. How the Conjure-Man Gets Busy: Cultural Nationalism and Performativity
- Conclusion. Masculine Legacies
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments