Underground Men: Alternative Masculinities and the Politics of Performance in African American Literature and Culture
Description:
This study explores intersections between performance, race and masculinity within a variety of expressive cultural contexts during and after the African American Civil Rights Movement. I maintain that the work of James Baldwin is best situated to help us navigate this cross section, as his fiction and cultural criticism focus heavily on the stage in all its incarnations as a space for negotiating the possibilities and limits of expressive culture in combating harmful racial narratives imposed …
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Date:
May 2014
Creator:
Gray, Jezy J.
Partner:
UNT Libraries