Machine generated contents note: 1.Wrestling for Salvation: Denial, Longing, and the Beauty of Brotherhood in Go Tell It on the Mountain -- 2.Flight, Freedom, and Abjection: Fractured Manhood and Tragic Love in Giovanni's Room -- 3.Alone in the Absurd: The Trope of Tragic Black Manhood in Another Country -- 4.Theatrics of Mask-ulinity: Radical Male Intimacy and Black Power in Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone -- 5.Concrete Jungles and the Carceral: Exploring Confinement and Imprisonment in IfBeale Street Could Talk.
Summary:
"Salvific Manhood reimagines the complexities of human brotherhood and masculinity by examining distinct iterations of male intimacy within all of James Baldwin's novels"--
9781496217097 hardcover alkaline paper 1496217098 hardcover alkaline paper
Note:
Extensive and substantial revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2012, titled In search of the fraternal : salvific manhood and male intimacy in the novels of James Baldwin.
