In the shadow of the Black beast
Subtitle: African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances
By: Andrew B. Leiter.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807135877
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: literary renaissance and the interracial "sex factor"; title: Sexual victims and black beasts in the nineteenth century; title: One-drop men in the shadow of the beast: Walter White and James Weldon Johnson; title: Sexual transgressions and the battle at the racial border: Schuyler's Black no more and Faulkner's Light in August; title: Black beasts and the historical imaginations of Margaret Mitchell and Allen Tate; title: The end of the chaste icon and the embrace of the beast: Caldwell's Trouble in July and Wright's Native son; title: Conclusion: bigger and the black beast revenge narrative.