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- Title
Melodramas of Beset Black Manhood? Meditations on African-American Masculinity as Scholarly Topos and Social Menace: An Introduction.
- Authors
Brown, Stephanie; Clark, Keith
- Abstract
Introduces essays about black masculinity and literature in the Summer 2003 issue of the journal "Callaloo." Marginalization of black men in the corpus of masculinity studies; Use of the visual and the scopic in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"; Misandric impulse in Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved"; Cultural attack on black gay men who must live in a racist and homophobic society.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MASCULINITY in literature; AFRICAN American men in literature; SOCIAL conditions of African American men; AFRICAN American gay people; ELLISON, Ralph, 1914-1994; MORRISON, Toni, 1931-2019
- Publication
Callaloo, 2003, Vol 26, Issue 3, p732
- ISSN
0161-2492
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cal.2003.0078