In the shadow of the Black beast [electronic resource] : African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances / Andrew B. Leiter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Southern literary studiesPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.Description: x, 283 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.509352996073 22
LOC classification:
  • PS374.N4 L45 2010eb
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Contents:
Introduction: literary renaissance and the interracial "sex factor" -- Sexual victims and black beasts in the nineteenth century -- One-drop men in the shadow of the beast: Walter White and James Weldon Johnson -- Sexual transgressions and the battle at the racial border: Schuyler's Black no more and Faulkner's Light in August -- Black beasts and the historical imaginations of Margaret Mitchell and Allen Tate -- The end of the chaste icon and the embrace of the beast: Caldwell's Trouble in July and Wright's Native son -- Conclusion: bigger and the black beast revenge narrative.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: literary renaissance and the interracial "sex factor" -- Sexual victims and black beasts in the nineteenth century -- One-drop men in the shadow of the beast: Walter White and James Weldon Johnson -- Sexual transgressions and the battle at the racial border: Schuyler's Black no more and Faulkner's Light in August -- Black beasts and the historical imaginations of Margaret Mitchell and Allen Tate -- The end of the chaste icon and the embrace of the beast: Caldwell's Trouble in July and Wright's Native son -- Conclusion: bigger and the black beast revenge narrative.

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