Masculinist impulses [electronic resource] : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity / Nathan Grant.
Publication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004.Description: 239 pISBN:- 0826215165 (alk. paper)
- Hurston, Zora Neale -- Characters -- Men
- Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane
- African American men in literature
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Masculinity in literature
- Men in literature
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Race in literature
- 813/.5099286/08996073 22
- PS374.N4 G73 2004eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.
Introduction : Modernism and the masculinist impulse -- Toomer's male prison and the spectatorial artist -- Of silent strivings : Cane's mute and dreaming dictie -- Hurston's masculinist critique of the South -- Zora Neale Hurston and the romance of the supernature -- Promised lands : the new Jerusalem's inner city and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia story -- Where and when we enter : closing the gap in Morrison's Beloved and Naylor's Mama Day.
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