In the shadow of the Black beast : African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances /

In the shadow of the Black beast : African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leiter, Andrew B., 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2010]
Series:Southern literary studies.
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
African American men in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
African American men > Race identity.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism.
Harlem Renaissance.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: literary renaissance and the interracial "sex factor"
  • Sexual victims and black beasts in the nineteenth century
  • One-drop men in the shadow of the beast: Walter White and James Weldon Johnson
  • Sexual transgressions and the battle at the racial border: Schuyler's Black no more and Faulkner's Light in August
  • Black beasts and the historical imaginations of Margaret Mitchell and Allen Tate
  • The end of the chaste icon and the embrace of the beast: Caldwell's Trouble in July and Wright's Native son
  • Conclusion: bigger and the black beast revenge narrative.