Salvific Manhood - James Baldwin''s Novelization of Male Intimacy

Informationen zum Autor Ernest L. Gibson III is an associate professor of English and the director of Africana studies at Auburn University.     Klappentext Ernest L. Gibson III offers a thematically daring and theoretically provocative way to understand the hidden connections between James Baldwin’s novels. Gibson presents a queering of salvation, a nuanced approach that views redemption through the lenses of gender and sexuality.   Zusammenfassung Foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin's six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest Gibson highlights the complex and emotional choices Baldwin's men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: In Search of the Fraternal 1. Wrestling for Salvation: Denial, Longing, and the Beauty of Brotherhood in Go Tell It on the Mountain 2. Flight, Freedom, and Abjection: Fractured Manhood and Tragic Love in Giovanni’s Room 3. Alone in the Absurd: The Trope of Tragic Black Manhood in Another Country 4. Theatrics of Mask-ulinity: Radical Male Intimacy and Black Power in Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone 5. Concrete Jungles and the Carceral: Exploring Confinement and Imprisonment in If Beale Street Could Talk Conclusion: Somewhere in That Wreckage Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Ernest L Gibson, Ernest L. Gibson
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781496217097
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-1709-7
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisc; Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies