00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862177803 Buklod 20191007115522.0 g||| | || || ta 191007s2015 mou ra |||1 u|eng d 0826215165 (alk. paper) 9780826215161 (alk. paper) (iLib)UPBAG-00034917118 OLC BAG rda eng PS 374 N4 G73 2004 Grant, Nathan 1957- author. Masculinist impulses Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity Nathan Grant. Columbia University of Missouri Press [2004] xi, 239 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index. Modernism and the masculinist impulse -- Toomer's male prison and the spectatorial artist -- Of silent strivings : Cane's mute and dreaming dictie -- Hurston's masculinist critique of the South -- Zora Neale Hurston and the romance of the supernature -- Promised lands : the new Jerusalem's inner city and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia story -- Where and when we enter : closing the gap in Morrison's Beloved and Naylor's Mama Day. "In Masculinist Impulses, Nathan Grant begins his analysis of African American texts by focusing on the fragmentation of values of black masculinity - free labor, self-reliance, and responsibility to family and community - as a result of slavery, postbellum disfranchisment, and the ensuing necessity to migrate from the agrarian South to the industrialized North. Through examinations of novels that deal with black male selfhood, Grant demonstrates the ways in which efforts to alleviate the most destructive aspects of racism ultimately reproduced them in the context of the industrialized city." "Masculinist Impulses discusses nineteenth- and twentieth-century black masculinity as both a feature and a casualty of modernism. Scholars and students of African American literature will find Grant's nuanced and creative readings of these key literary texts invaluable."--Jacket Hurston, Zora Neale Characters Men. Toomer, Jean 1894-1967. Cane. American fiction African American authors History and criticism. American fiction 20th century History and criticism. African Americans Intellectual life 20th century. Modernism (Literature) United States. African American men in literature. Masculinity in literature. Race in literature. Men in literature. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PS 374 N4 G73 2004 Book