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In Our Living Manhood, Rolland Murray examines how James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, John Oliver Killens, and other writers challenged the Black Power movement's political commitment to masculinity in the 1960s.

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"Clearly written and persuasively argued, Our Living Manhood makes a notable contribution to the long-standing critique of male supremacy in Black Nationalism by helping to complicate that critique, and demonstrates the ongoing importance of gender/sexuality studies for understanding African American literature and culture." * Marlon Ross, University of Virginia *

Table of Contents

Introduction: Our Black Nations Reconsidered
Chapter 1. My Father's Many Mansions: James Baldwin and the Architecture of Masculine Authority
Chapter 2. The Clumsy Trap of Manhood: Revolutionary Nationalism, John Edgar Wideman, and Remembrance
Chapter 3. Dark Intimacies: Sex, Nationalism, and Forgetting
Chapter 4. How the Conjure-Man Gets Busy: Cultural Nationalism and Performativity
Conclusion: Masculine Legacies
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

Our Living Manhood

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 5 January 2007
      ISBN-13 9780812239720
      978-0812239720
      ISBN-10 0812239725
      Also in:
      Gender studies: men and boys

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In Our Living Manhood, Rolland Murray examines how James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, John Oliver Killens, and other writers challenged the Black Power movement's political commitment to masculinity in the 1960s.

      Trade Review
      "Clearly written and persuasively argued, Our Living Manhood makes a notable contribution to the long-standing critique of male supremacy in Black Nationalism by helping to complicate that critique, and demonstrates the ongoing importance of gender/sexuality studies for understanding African American literature and culture." * Marlon Ross, University of Virginia *

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Our Black Nations Reconsidered
      Chapter 1. My Father's Many Mansions: James Baldwin and the Architecture of Masculine Authority
      Chapter 2. The Clumsy Trap of Manhood: Revolutionary Nationalism, John Edgar Wideman, and Remembrance
      Chapter 3. Dark Intimacies: Sex, Nationalism, and Forgetting
      Chapter 4. How the Conjure-Man Gets Busy: Cultural Nationalism and Performativity
      Conclusion: Masculine Legacies
      Notes
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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