In the shadow of the Black beast African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances /

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Hoofdauteur: Leiter, Andrew B., 1972-
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Reeks:Southern literary studies.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.