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.
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.