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Masculinist impulses : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity
Title:
Masculinist impulses : Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity
Author:
Grant, Nathan, 1957-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2004]

©2004
Physical Description:
xi, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction : 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.
ISBN:
9780826215161
Format :
Book