Masculinist impulses
Subtitle: Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity
By: Nathan Grant.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Hurston, Zora Neale -- Characters -- Men; Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; African American men in literature; Masculinity in literature; Race in literature; Men in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Modernism and the masculinist impulse; title: Toomer's male prison and the spectatorial artist; title: Of silent strivings : Cane's mute and dreaming dictie; title: Hurston's masculinist critique of the South; title: Zora Neale Hurston and the romance of the supernature; title: Promised lands : the new Jerusalem's inner city and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia story; title: Where and when we enter : closing the gap in Morrison's Beloved and Naylor's Mama Day.