This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. Many negative stereotypes of black men--often contradictory ones--have emerged from the ongoing historical traumas initiated by slavery. Are black men emasculated and submissive or hypersexed and violent? Nostalgic representations of black men have arisen as well: think of the philosophical, hardworking sharecropper or the abiding, upright preacher. To complicate matters, says RichE Richardson, blacks themselves appropriate...
This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the...
Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer."
Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe s works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe s i...
A bold book, built of close readings, striking in its range and depth, The Signifying Eye shows Faulkner's art take shape in sweeping arcs of social, labor, and aesthetic history. Beginning with long-unpublished works (his childhood sketches and his hand-drawn and hand-illustrated play The Marionettes) and early novels (Mosquitoes and Sartoris), working through many major works (The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom ), and including more popular fictions (The Wild Palms and The...
A bold book, built of close readings, striking in its range and depth, The Signifying Eye shows Faulkner's art take shape in sweeping arcs o...
