In the shadow of the Black beast [electronic resource] : African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances / Andrew B. Leiter.
Series: Southern literary studiesPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.Description: x, 283 pSubject(s):- 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
- 813/.509352996073 22
- PS374.N4 L45 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: literary renaissance and the interracial "sex factor" -- Sexual victims and black beasts in the nineteenth century -- One-drop men in the shadow of the beast: Walter White and James Weldon Johnson -- Sexual transgressions and the battle at the racial border: Schuyler's Black no more and Faulkner's Light in August -- Black beasts and the historical imaginations of Margaret Mitchell and Allen Tate -- The end of the chaste icon and the embrace of the beast: Caldwell's Trouble in July and Wright's Native son -- Conclusion: bigger and the black beast revenge narrative.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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