In the Shadow of the Black Beast : African American Masculinity in the Harlem and Southern Renaissances.
Title:
In the Shadow of the Black Beast : African American Masculinity in the Harlem and Southern Renaissances.
Author:
Leiter, Andrew B.
ISBN:
9780807137536
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Series:
Southern Literary Studies
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Literary Renaissance and the Interracial "Sex Factor" -- ONE SEXUAL VICTIMS AND BLACK BEASTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- TWO ONE-DROP MEN IN THE SHADOW OF THE BEAST Walter White and James Weldon Johnson -- THREE SEXUAL TRANSGRESSIONS AND THE BATTLE AT THE RACIAL BORDER Schuyler's Black No More and Faulkner's Light in August -- FOUR BLACK BEASTS AND THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATIONS OF MARGARET MITCHELL AND ALLEN TATE -- FIVE 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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
Andrew B. Leiter presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or "black beast," as a composite literary phenomenon. According to Leiter, the black beast theme served as a fundamental link between the Harlem and Southern Renaissances, with writers from both movements exploring its psychological, cultural, and social ramifications. Indeed, Leiter asserts that the two groups consciously engaged one another's work as they struggled to define roles for black masculinity in a society that viewed the black beast as the raison d'être for segregation. In the Shadow of the Black Beast signals a major fresh interpretation of the literary stereotype within its social and historical context.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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