Racial myths and masculinity in African American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leak, Jeffrey B., 1968-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2005]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans > Intellectual life. African American men in literature. Masculinity in literature. Race in literature. Myth in literature. Men in literature.

Table of Contents:

A crisis in the male spirit : slavery, masculinity, and the myth of Black inferiority in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
A conflict between the ideological and the biological : the myth of Black sexual prowess in Brent Wade's Company man and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
I want him to be a man : incarceration and the myth of Black criminality in Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying and Richard Wright's Native son
It's time you learned the truth about a few things : masculinity and the myth of cultural depravation in David Bradley's The Chaneysville incident and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.