the extraordinary versatility of African-American men's writing since the 1970s, this forceful collection 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. From the "John Henry Syndrome" -- a definition of black masculinity based on brute strength or violence -- to the submersion of black gay identity under equations of gay with white…
Author: Keith Clark (ed.) · Original publisher: University of Illinois Press (Urbana, 2001)
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