Masculinities in black and white: manliness and whiteness in (african) american literature
Auteur :
Armengol, J.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349503759
Date de publication :
15 juil. 2015
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as seen by African American authors placed alongside certain white writers. Author analyzes texts by Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Frederick Douglass, and James Baldwin.