Black Love, Black Hate / Felice D. Blake.

• VerfasserIn: Blake, Felice D.
• Place / Publishing House: Columbus, OH : : The Ohio State University Press,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (183 p.)

Felice D. Blake's Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraracial deceptions, cruelties, and contempt in Black literature. Literary criticism has tended to focus on Black solidarity and the ways that a racially linked fate has compelled Black people to counter notions of Black inferiority with unified notions of community driven by political commitments to creative rehumanization and collective affirmation. Blake shows how fictional depictions of intraracial conflict perform necessary work within the Black community, raising questions about why racial unity is so often established from the top down and how loyalty to Blackness can be manipulated to reinforce deleterious forms of subordination to oppressive gender, sexual, and class norms.

Table of Contents

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 The Public Space of Intimate Antagonisms: Black Intimacy and Opposition to Jim Crow -- CHAPTER 2 Intimate Antagonisms and Double Consciousness in the Debate over Integration -- CHAPTER 3 Going to Bed Angry: Intimate Antagonisms in the Epoch of Black Power -- CHAPTER 4 What's Yours Is Mine: The Paradox of Intraracial "Bootstrap" Politics -- EPILOGUE Intimate Antagonisms, the Undercommons, and the Town-Hall Meeting -- Bibliography -- Index.