Fathers, preachers, rebels, men
Subtitle: black masculinity in U.S. history and literature, 1820-1945
By: Edited by Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster
Series: Black performance and cultural criticism; Black performance and cultural criticism
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780814211564; 9780814292556
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; African American men in literature; Masculinity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "He was no man attall"? Slave men, honor, violence, and masculinity in the antebellum South / Jeff Forret; title: A crucible of masculinity : William Johnson's barbershop and the making of free black men in the antebellum South / Timothy R. Buckner; title: To train them for the work : manhood, morality, and free black conduct discourse in antebellum New York / Erica L. Ball; title: Masculinizing the pulpit : the black preacher in the nineteenth-century AME church / Julius H. Bailey; title: "Shall I trust these men?" : Thomas Nast and postbellum black manhood / Fiona Deans Halloran; title: Charles W. Chesnutt, Harper's Weekly, and racial caricature in postbellum, pre-Harlem America / Peter Caster; title: "So I decided to quit it and try something else for a while" : reading agency in Nat Love / Simone Drake; title: Cowboys, porters, and the mythic West : satire and frontier masculinity in The life and adventures of Nat Love / Charity Fox; title: From Haiti to Harpers Ferry : the insurrectionary tradition in American literature / Colleen C. O'Brien; title: The political is personal : black family manhood and the social science of E. Franklin Frazier, 1930-1945 / Malinda Alaine Lindquist; title: Black masculinity and new precedents / Riché Richardson.