Racial myths and masculinity in African American literature
By: Jeffrey B. Leak.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-155) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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.