In the shadow of the Black beast African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances /
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2010.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Southern literary studies.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.