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Beyond macho: Literature, masculini...

Murray, Rolland Dante.

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Beyond macho: Literature, masculinity, and Black Power (James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, John Killens).

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Beyond macho: Literature, masculinity, and Black Power (James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, John Killens)./
作者:	Murray, Rolland Dante.
面頁冊數:	259 p.
附註:	Adviser: Kenneth Warren.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-07A.
標題:	Black Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9978051
ISBN:	0599843578

Beyond macho: Literature, masculinity, and Black Power (James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, John Killens).
Murray, Rolland Dante.

Beyond macho: Literature, masculinity, and Black Power (James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, John Killens). - 259 p.

Adviser: Kenneth Warren.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2000.

This dissertation focuses on the neglected critical interventions of black male writers who were uneasy with the Black Power Movement's tendency to place masculine selfhood at the center of its political radicalism. While scholars have noted that black female writers criticized the movement's sexism and its preoccupation with refashioning black masculinity more generally, they have not addressed the works by male writers that challenged and undermined the movement's masculinist politics. Moreover, though commentators have outlined the Black Power Movement's sexism and its concern with refashioning black masculinity generally, the works of these male authors underscored the limitations that masculinity created within other discrete strains of the movement's political ideology. James Baldwin's essays in <italic>The Fire Next Time</italic> (1963) suggest that the Nation of Islam's faith in the redemptive power of patriarchal mythology did not provide a liberating form of subjectivity for its converts as it promised, but rather, subjugated male subjects to the patriarchal authority of the group's founder, Elijah Muhammad. John Edgar Wideman's novel <italic> The Lynchers</italic> (1973) parodies and tracks the contradictions of a revolutionary discourse propagated by the Black Panther Party wherein the desire to refashion the body and mind of male subjects was conflated with the political mandate to remake the social order. Clarence Major's erotic novel <italic>All-Night Visitors</italic> (1969) highlights the crippling paradoxes within the sexual ideologies of Black Power advocates who viewed black male eroticism as a potential avenue for the liberation of the black male subject. And John Killens' novel <italic> The Cotillion</italic> (1971) satirizes the growing political emphasis on performative rhetoric among black male cultural nationalists. Taken as a whole, these interventions suggest that the conflation of masculinity and politics during this period was contested more broadly and with greater subtlety than existing scholarship acknowledges. Through careful examination of the interplay between the works of these male writers and the masculinist discourses of Black Power advocates, this project works toward a more nuanced analysis of how masculinity shaped the movement's political and aesthetic ideologies and how that process was contested.

ISBN: 0599843578Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Beyond macho: Literature, masculinity, and Black Power (James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, John Killens).
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