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

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.
 

List of contents

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

About the author

Ernest L. Gibson III is an associate professor of English and the director of Africana studies at Auburn University.
 
 

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ernest L Gibson, Ernest L. Gibson
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781496229052
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-2905-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: 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