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Masculinity Under Construction - Literary Re-Presentations of Black Masculinity in the African Diaspora

English · Hardback

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Masculinity Under Construction analyzes Black male identity through the works of various authors from Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. The book discusses the works of canonical Black authors from the pan-African diaspora in order to identify similarities in the construction of male identity in global Black communities.

List of contents










Introduction: Masculinity and Mutability
Chapter One: Racialized Degendering: Creating the Black Beast in the Shadow of the Enlightenment
Chapter Two: Black Men, Oppositional Definitions, and Primordial Africa
Chapter Three: Black Masculine Identities from Their Own Histories
Chapter Four: A Word on Black Feminists, Womanists, Men, and Writers
Chapter Five: Concerns of the Heart(h): Three Black Women Writers and Masculinity
Chapter Six: Out of Necessity: Black Men Evaluate Definitions of Masculinity


About the author

LaToya Jefferson-James is assistant professor of English at Mississippi Valley State University.

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