The African American male, writing and difference : a polycentric approach to African American literature, criticism, and history /

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Author / Creator:	Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages 23 cm)
Language:	English
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. American literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism. African American men -- Intellectual life. Difference (Psychology) in literature. African American men in literature. African American men in literature. African American men -- Intellectual life. American literature -- African American authors. American literature -- Male authors. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129485

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ISBN:	1417524111 9781417524112 0791456935 9780791456934 0791456943 9780791456941 9780791487006 0791487008
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-281) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation In this wide-ranging analysis, W. Lawrence Hogue argues that African American life and history is more diverse than even African American critics generally acknowledge. Focusing on literary representations of African American males in particular, Hogue examines works by James Weldon Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Charles Wright, Nathan Heard, Clarence Major, James Earl Hardy, and Don Belton to see how they portray middle-class, Christian, subaltern, voodoo, urban, jazz/blues, postmodern, and gay African American cultures. Hogue shows that this polycentric perspective can move beyond a "racial uplift" approach to African American literature and history and help paint a clearer picture of the rich diversity of African American life and culture
Other form:	Print version: Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951- African American male, writing and difference. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003 0791456935 0791456943

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction: Approaching African American Life, History, Literature, and Criticism Polycentrically
Ch. 2 History, the White/Black Binary, and the Construction of the African American as Other
Ch. 3 White/Black Binary and the African American Sociopolitical Mission of Racial Uplift
Ch. 4 Finding Freedom in Sameness: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Ch. 5 Disrupting the White/Black Binary: William Melvin Kelley's A Different Drummer
Ch. 6 Exposing Limiting, Racialized Heterological Critical Sites: An Existential Reading of Charles Wright's The Messenger
Ch. 7 Blue Idiom Lifestyle, Counter-Hegemony, and Clarence Major's Dirty Bird Blues
Ch. 8 Naming the Subaltern: The Swinging Life and Nathan Heard's Howard Street
Ch. 9 Identity Politics, Sexual Fluidity, and James Earl Hardy's B-Boy Blues
Ch. 10 Voodoo, A Different African American Experience, and Don Belton's Almost Midnight
Ch. 11 Conclusion.

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