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Contemporary Black men's fiction and drama

Keith Clark (Editor)
Demonstrating the extraordinary versatility of African-American men's writing since the 1970s, this title illustrates how African-American male novelists and playwrights have absorbed, challenged, and expanded the conventions of black American writing and, with it, black male identity.
Print Book, English, 2001
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 243 pages ; 24 cm
9780252026768, 0252026764
45916995
Rescuing the Black homosexual lambs: Randall Kenan and the reconstruction of Southern gay masculinity / Sheila Smith McKoy
This disease called strength: the masculine manifestation in Raymond Andrews's Appalachee red / Trudier Harris
Looking Homewood: the evolution of John Edgar Wideman's folk imagination / Raymond E. Janifer
Commodity culture and the conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada / A.T. Spaulding
Clarence Major's All-night visitors: Calibanic discourse and Black male expression / James W. Coleman
"I was my father's father, and he my child": the process of Black fatherhood and literary evolution in Charles Johnson's fiction / William R. Nash
Prodigal agency: allegory and voice in Ernest J. Gaines's A lesson before dying / Herman Beavers
Without a cosmology: the psychospiritual condition of African-American men in Brent Wade's Company man and Melvin Dixon's Trouble the water / Melvin B. Rahming
Are love and literature political? Black homopoetics in the 1990s / Kenyatta Dorey Graves
Healing the scars of masculinity: reflections on baseball, gunshots, and war wounds in August Wilson's Fences / Keith Clark