Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology

Rolland Murray

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2007

Our Living Manhood

Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology

Rolland Murray

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809565

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About this book

In Our Living Manhood, Rolland Murray examines how James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, John Oliver Killens, and other writers challenged the Black Power movement's political commitment to masculinity in the 1960s.

Author / Editor information

Rolland Murray is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. His work has appeared in such journals as Callaloo and the Yale Journal of Criticism.

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"Clearly written and persuasively argued, Our Living Manhood makes a notable contribution to the long-standing critique of male supremacy in Black Nationalism by helping to complicate that critique, and demonstrates the ongoing importance of gender/sexuality studies for understanding African American literature and culture."—Marlon Ross, University of Virginia

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Introduction: Our Black Nations Reconsidered Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. My Father’s Many Mansions: James Baldwin and the Architecture of Masculine Authority Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. The Clumsy Trap of Manhood: Revolutionary Nationalism, John Edgar Wideman, and Remembrance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. Dark Intimacies: Sex, Nationalism, and Forgetting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. How the Conjure-Man Gets Busy: Cultural Nationalism and Performativity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Conclusion. Masculine Legacies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 160
Keywords: Literature; African-American Studies; African Studies; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: September 25, 2015
ISBN: 9781512809565