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Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995 by Maurice O. Wallace (Hardcover, 2002)

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In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history - from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the 1990s choreographies of modern dance genius Bill T. Jones - Constructing the Black Masculine maps black men's historical efforts to negotiate the frequently discordant relationship between blackness and maleness in the cultural logic of American identity. Maurice O. Wallace draws on an impressive variety of material to investigate the survivalist strategies employed by black men who have had to endure the disjunction between race and masculinity in American culture. Highlighting their chronic objectification under the gaze of white eyes, Wallace argues that black men suffer a social and representational crisis in being at once seen and unseen, fetish and phantasm, spectacle and shadow in the American racial imagination. Invisible and disregarded on one hand, black men, perceived as potential threats to society, simultaneously face the reality of hyper-visibility and perpetual surveillance. Paying significant attention to the socio-technologies of vision and image production over two centuries, Wallace shows how African American men - as soldiers, Freemasons, and romantic heroes - have sought both to realise the ideal image of the American masculine subject and to deconstruct it in expressive mediums like modern dance, photography, and theatre. Throughout, he also draws on the experiences and theories of such notable figures as Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, and James Baldwin. Combining literary theory, visual art theory, race and ethnic studies, psychoanalysis, and performance studies, this book will interest students and scholars of race, literature, gender studies, and American history and culture.

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Duke University Press
ISBN-13
9780822328544
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96510764

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Subject Area
Gender Issues
Author
Maurice O. Wallace
Publication Name
Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, History
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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680g

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Maurice O. Wallace
Series Title
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
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United States

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