Masculinist impulses Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity /

Grant, Nathan, 1957-

Masculinist impulses Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity / [electronic resource] : Nathan Grant. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004. - 239 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.

Introduction : Modernism and the masculinist impulse -- Toomer's male prison and the spectatorial artist -- Of silent strivings : Cane's mute and dreaming dictie -- Hurston's masculinist critique of the South -- Zora Neale Hurston and the romance of the supernature -- Promised lands : the new Jerusalem's inner city and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia story -- Where and when we enter : closing the gap in Morrison's Beloved and Naylor's Mama Day.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Hurston, Zora Neale--Characters--Men.
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane.


American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
African American men in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Race in literature.
Men in literature.


Electronic books.

PS374.N4 / G73 2004

813/.5099286/08996073