Breaking the silence : toward a Black male feminist criticism /

Breaking the silence : toward a Black male feminist criticism /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ikard, David, 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
African American men in literature.
African American women > Race identity.
African American men > Race identity.
Sex differences in literature.
Suffering in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Love Jones : a black male feminist critique of Chester Himes's If he hollers let him go
  • Black patriarchy and the dilemma of black women's complicity in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain
  • "Killing the white girl first" : understanding the politics of black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise
  • "So much of what we know ain't so" : the other gender in Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters
  • "Like a butterfly in a hurricane" : reconceptualizing black gendered resistance in Walter Mosley's Always outnumbered, always outgunned and Walkin' the dog.